8301 Winter roadside, moonlit mono. 10.32pm, 13 July 2014 I find myself more drawn to formalist compositions as I grow older. They are by no means easy to do, especially after dark. This one surprised me on a pleasant roadside. Intrigued by its depth, I used the last of my battery to highlight the foreground. […]

Marahau finale panorama, 7.15 – 7.16pm, 8 September 2014 Moonlit clouds – how I know these well, as a pleasant pillow for my head. Here’s another practice shot, complementing my earlier Marahau post, in the art of stitching up two wide angle frames. Each was exposed for just 5 seconds, in order to keep the […]

Stony River wide, 28 February 2010 Mt Taranaki is bare of snow and ice for 4 or 5 months of the year; this view from the Blue Rata Reserve is a sandwich of two frames, taken on a full moon evening, the last of summer. The Stony (Hangatahua) is a fast-flowing stream, one prone to […]

8715 Nelson gothic, by street light Photographer William Tyree’s pile, on Whitby Rd – but hardly Gothic. In uploading this I suddenly realised that a spectral figure was needed at the gate! How easily I could have stepped into the shot myself, halfway through the exposure, yet the thought never occurred to me. Now I […]

Front & back covers. 210 x 297 mm. See sample layout below. My calendar for 2015 has now sold out. In the same format as previous years, the calendar shows evening scenes and cameos from both islands of New Zealand, over the seasons. 100 copies only were for sale. barneybrewster@xtra.co.nz

8075 Hauraki moonlit selfie, to tow truck soundtrack This is the last frame from a series I took from Achilles Point, a suburban vantage point at St Heliers, Auckland. The view is east, towards Brown’s Island (Motukorea), with Great Barrier Island on the far horizon. More a matter of record than any artistic statement, this […]

5090. Cook Strait Twilight Pano I’m not a happy sailor, and find myself crossing Cook Strait all too often. However, if I’m leaving from Picton I sometimes catch an evening sailing, so as to have the twilight and sometimes the moon for company. I’ve never taken the tripod up out deck, strangely, but simply hold the camera […]

8254. Marahau moonlight, Nelson. 9.21pm, 13 July 2014 While the others snuggled down to watch rugby on TV, I ventured out into the cool evening and walked towards the Abel Tasman. I followed a shoreline lapped by tiny surf, and set my tripod in the sand every few minutes, only to discover that my lens […]

Rangitoto from Achilles Pt, Auckland. Two frames merged into one, so same ferry twice – each exposure is 30 seconds, by moonlight. The Point is at St Heliers; it’s a good lookout as long as you don’t get caught (as I did) by the local council’s draconian parking restrictions. Park well down the street!  

5988. The Unbearable Likeness of Being 6179 Island Bay, Wellington 6186 Pencarrow from Island Bay  6059 Brewster’s Quality Chocolates

5295 Moonlit squall over New Plymouth 5307 Mt Taranaki by moonlight 6642 New moon at Arrowtown 5899 From Breaker Bay, Nelson, high moon Copyright images in 16:9 wide screen ratio, posted for free download as background wallpaper on your desktop (a right-hand click of your mouse over any image will show this option). Downloads are for personal use […]

5017 Dusk from Mt Moturoa, New Plymouth   0183 Lunar eclipse, Taranaki spring    5170 Carterton evening, Wairarapa    5068 Crescent moon and Venus, from Mt Moturoa Copyright images in 16:9 wide screen ratio, posted for free download as background wallpaper on your desktop (a right-hand click of your mouse over any image will show this option). Downloads […]

4086 Mokau Highway, Taranaki    8542 Moonlit horses, Awhitu Peninsula   9308 Tank farm, New Plymouth    1128 Angel at Puniho, Taranaki Copyright images in 16:9 wide screen ratio, posted for free download as background wallpaper on your desktop (a right-hand click of your mouse over any image will show this option). Downloads are for personal use only. […]

2014 Calendar front cover 2014 Calendar back cover 210 x 297 mm. Sample layout below. ANNOUNCING the publication of my nightscapes calendar for 2014! In the same format as previous years, the calendar shows evening scenes and cameos from both islands of New Zealand, over the seasons. A mailing envelope is supplied within. Price $NZ20, […]

4478 Motunui rustic, Taranaki 4500 Onaero Beach, Taranaki 4613 Moturoa from Back Beach   3718 Twilight at Turakina Cemetery, Rangitikei Copyright images in 16:9 wide screen ratio, posted for free download as background wallpaper on your desktop (a right-hand click of your mouse over any image will show this option). Downloads are for personal use only.

 12.11/31. Moonlit sheep, Golden Bay   4391. Motunui twilight, Taranaki    3571. Kai Iwi Beach, Whanganui   3254. Crescent moonlight, Omata, Taranaki Evening images in the 16:9 wide screen ratio, posted for free download as background wallpaper on your desktop. Downloads are for personal use only.

0780 Spring grass by moonlight    3002 Last glow over Mt Taranaki   3512 Tank farm, Taranaki   3372 Outlook on Saddleback Evening images in the 16:9 wide screen ratio, posted for free download as background wallpaper on your desktop. Downloads are for personal use only.  

5091 Twilight Crossing, Cook Strait   3014 Last light from South Taranaki   2044 At Pukerimu, near Cambridge   3133 Moonlit mountain from Yarrow Stadium, New Plymouth   Evening images in the 16:9 wide screen ratio, posted for free download as background wallpaper on your desktop. Downloads are for personal use only.

2481 Moturoa hilltop, New Plymouth           2408 Church camp, Eltham, Taranaki           2930 High tide at Mangawhai, Northland           2039 Angel at Pukerimu, Cambridge       Here begins a new series of recent images in the 16:9 wide screen ratio, posted for […]

Mt Moturoa, New Plymouth. 7.08 pm, 21 April 2013 Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.  –  Ovid 28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f16. Incandescent light balance

 All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. –  Federico Fellini 28mm; ISO 2500. 30 seconds at f11. Flash

To Barney’s pulpit rock I climb / Where the sea aisles burn cold / In fires of no return / And maned breakers praise / The death hour of the sun. James K. Baxter, In fires of no return 28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f11  

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow / Out of this stony rubbish?          Son of man, / You cannot say, or guess, for you know only / A heap of broken images    – T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land 85mm; ISO 500. 4 minutes at f16

 You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.  –  Marge Simpson 50mm; ISO 2000. 2 seconds at f5.6. Sodium vapour light balance  

Made cool the dry rock and made firm the sand / In blue of larkspur,                            blue of Mary’s colour / Sovegna vos  –  T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday IV 85mm; ISO 2000. 4 seconds at f9. Sodium vapour light balance