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244. Joyful John escapes the city

244. Joyful John escapes the city

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away – Robert M. Hutchins 28mm; ISO 2000. 20 seconds at f5.6  

243. Winter in Waiuku country

243. Winter in Waiuku country

Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities. – Michael Kenna  28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f5.6  

242. Full moon, Back Beach

242. Full moon, Back Beach

28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f8. Flash  

241. Darkness on the Old Mountain Rd, Taranaki

241. Darkness on the Old Mountain Rd, Taranaki

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.  –  Joseph Addison Driving north in the early evening, I paused on a 2 km disused section of the old highway, quaint now for its narrowness and rustic one-lane bridge. The night was cold and moonless, with a constant […]

240. Ratana church, winter twilight

240. Ratana church, winter twilight

The illiteracy of the future will be ignorance not of reading or writing, but of photography. –      László Moholy-Nagy (Weimar photographer, 1926) Oh for a rising moon behind! But there was heavy overcast – and anyway, the moon was yet to rise. By the way, a big moon rising after dark is past […]

239. From our balcony, after midnight

239. From our balcony, after midnight

[Only the camera can express] the full majesty of the moment. –  Paul Leopold Rosenfeld Looking down on the tops of the persimmon. You can only do this on a very still night, as the slightest breeze blurs the detail. However, to get a really creative blur, you need a gusty evening – nothing in-between […]

238. Persimmon by moonlight

238. Persimmon by moonlight

I can gather all the news I need on the weather report.  –  Paul Simon (The Only Living Boy in New York) Still lifes by moonlight are formidable propositions because of the problems in seeing what you have, particularly with close framing and the shallow depth of field of a mild telephoto. This scene was […]

237. Night view over Westhaven Inlet

237. Night view over Westhaven Inlet

 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.  –  Vincent van Gogh 28mm; ISO 2000. 66 seconds at f10

236. Return after dark from Turtle Cove

236. Return after dark from Turtle Cove

 At their best, photographs as symbols not only serve to help illuminate some of the darkness of the unknown, they also serve to lessen the fears that too often accompany the journeys from the known to the unknown. – Wynn Bullock 28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f11

233. High tide, no moon, Waimea Inlet

233. High tide, no moon, Waimea Inlet

Photographing at night can be fascinating because we lose some of the control over what happens in front of the camera.  –  Michael Kenna  28mm, ISO 2000. 464 seconds (7 min 44 sec) at f13. Sodium vapour light balance      

232. High tide by moonlight, Turtle Cove

232. High tide by moonlight, Turtle Cove

High tide by moonlight, Turtle Cove, Golden Bay. 7.35 pm, 2 June 2012  The night has vast potential for creativity.  –  Michael  Kenna 28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f11

231. Daylight is too easy

231. Daylight is too easy

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult – the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.     – Edgar Degas 28mm; ISO 2500. 30 seconds at f11

229. Long exposure from Turtle Cove

229. Long exposure from Turtle Cove

Ah the moon’s too bright, the chain’s too tight, the beast won’t go to sleep… – Leonard Cohen (I’m Your Man) 85mm; ISO 500. 294 seconds (5 mins) at f16  

228. Evening view from Westhaven Retreat

228. Evening view from Westhaven Retreat

I’ve had a lot of trouble in my life – most of which never happened.  –  Mark Twain 28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f13. Flash

227. Waxing moon, Westhaven

227. Waxing moon, Westhaven

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.   Marcus Aurelius 28mm; ISO 2000. 15 seconds at f8. Flash

226. Many ways to be free

226. Many ways to be free

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. – Anaïs Nin 50mm; ISO 2000. 15 seconds at f8. Incandescent light balance  

225. The Pot from Fox Glacier Holiday Park

225. The Pot from Fox Glacier Holiday Park

 The future will be better tomorrow.  –  Dan Quayle  50mm, ISO 2000. 8 seconds at f2.8. Light balance 3030 deg K

224. Autumn evening, Cheviot

224. Autumn evening, Cheviot

The moon could not keep shining if it had to pay attention to all the dogs barking at it.  –  Anon 28mm, ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f11. Flash  

223. Each of us is born

223. Each of us is born

Each of us is born into an already existent conversation.  –  Martin Heidegger 28mm, ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f16. Light balance 2500 deg K.    

222. Foothills from Fox Glacier

222. Foothills from Fox Glacier

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can’t see how it is.   – Ram Dass 28mm; ISO 2000. 94 seconds at f8. Light balance 3030 deg K.  

221. Target practice, Arrowtown

221. Target practice, Arrowtown

         Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.  –  Arthur Schopenhauer 28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f8  

220. Night portal at Kurow

220. Night portal at Kurow

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.  –  Lewis Carroll 28mm; ISO 2000. 10 seconds at f2.8. Incandescent light balance  

219. Cheviot after dark

219. Cheviot after dark

Change is the very essence of life.  –  Anatole France 28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f11. Light balance 2500 deg K  

218. Wintry evening, Kurow

218. Wintry evening, Kurow

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.  –  Emily Dickinson 28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f4  

217. Just keep going

217. Just keep going

 Just keep going. No feeling is final.  –  Rainer Maria Rilke 28mm, ISO 2000. 30 secs at f4. Light balance 3030 deg K  

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Barney Brewster – NZ Landscape Photographer

Based in Nelson, Barney loves to capture the New Zealand landscape, mostly through long exposures at dusk or after dark.

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