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!  

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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  

If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.  –  Leonard Cohen 50mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f11

 Let us live most happily, possessing nothing; let us feed on joy, like the radiant gods.  –  The Buddha 24mm; ISO 200. 60 seconds at f2

 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

 All of us must indulge in a few small follies if we are to make reality bearable.  – Marcel Proust 28mm; ISO 2500. 30 seconds at f11. Flash

 Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.  –  Dalai Lama 28mm; ISO 2000. 629.4 secs (10.5 minutes) at f11

The most powerful force on earth is the human soul on fire  –  Field Marshall Foch (adapted) 85mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f16        

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 […]

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. […]

For the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.  –  John Newton 28mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f13

Miracles occur, / If you dare to call those spasmodic / Tricks of radiance miracles. / The wait’s begun again, / The long wait for the angel, / For that rare, random descent. – Sylvia Plath 50mm; ISO 2000. 30 seconds at f9. Incandescent 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