9289 NZ flax with moonrise, Ahu Ahu Rd, Taranaki. 8.59pm, 4 January 2015 My previous post left out another great NZ silhouette, Phormium tenax, now in summer flower and shown here in only semi-, thanks to flash. Taken at a sheltered location south of Oakura, one of the few north-facing beaches along the western North Island. […]
6858b Mana Island liberty. 4.53pm, 7 May 2014 “This’ll be good!”, I thought to myself, as an evening squall approached Plimmerton, a Wellington suburb on Porirua Harbour. Keen photographers should be out for every passing shower, but of course location is everything – and the right time of day. The squall soon passed over and […]
9135 The evening rush. 9.03pm, 27 December 2014 At Bell Block, a suburban outlier of New Plymouth, the Mangati Stream meets the coast through a steep shingle bank. This last reach came into view after sunset as we came up from the beach, by the new walkway extension. Adding to the uncommon textural unity was […]
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 […]
7707. Claire & co at Whatipu A discrete chair in the Whatipu wilderness puts you one step ahead in the relaxed model stakes – as does a warm coat – but the secret ingredient to portrait work seems to be having an accomplice, one who distracts the subject with lively conversation while the photographer pretends […]
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
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
There are no eyes here / In this valley of dying stars / In this hollow valley / This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms – T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men 85mm; ISO 500. 30 seconds at f16. Incandescent light balance
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. – Alfred Stieglitz 85mm; ISO 2000. 25 seconds at f8. Incandescent
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you. – Lewis B. Smedes 85mm; ISO 500. 15 seconds at f16. Incandescent light balance
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. – Dalai Lama 50mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f8. Flash; incandescent light balance
My meditations, my musings are never more enchanting than when I am able to forget myself. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau NEWS: My 2013 Night Visions calendar has now sold out. The NIGHT VISIONS book is still available direct, at $40 post-free (signed copies, with 4 x greeting cards as a bonus). The book has had some […]
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. – Joseph Campbell 85mm; ISO 1000. 5 seconds at f11. Flash
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. – Leo Tolstoy 85mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f6.3
I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored. ― Bill Bryson, Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America 85mm; ISO 2000. 15 seconds at f16. Sodium vapour light […]
Still round the corner there may wait / A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by / A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run / West of the Moon, East of the Sun. – J.R.R. Tolkien 85mm; ISO 2000. […]
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift. – Albert Einstein 85mm, ISO 2000. 1 second at f8. Sodium vapour light balance
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. – Spanish proverb 85mm; ISO 640. 8 seconds at f5.6. Sodium vapour light balance
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent van Gogh (attrib) 85mm; ISO 2000. 15 seconds at f11
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them. – Diane Arbus 85mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f8
Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver 85mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f6.3
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 85mm; ISO 1000. 30 seconds at f11. Sodium vapour light balance
There is no substitute for moonlight and kissing. – Barbara Cartland 85mm; ISO 2000. 70 seconds at f16. Flash
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. – Buddha (attrib.) 85mm; ISO 1000. 63 seconds at f2.5. Sodium vapour light balance
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde 85mm; ISO 2000. 1/400th sec at f9