Dancing in the Pale Moonlight

A full moon rises, illuminating a golden treasure for all with eyes to See.

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#Otago, #NewZealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Nightscape #Moonrise #Mountains #EastCoastKin #stars #Travel #Queenstown

Onions. Definitely!! LOL, that's the funniest typo I've made for a while! I'm glad you pointed it out!

The Star

Looking out across the plains at daybreak, and there's the biggest star I've ever seen....

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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Sunrise #MonochromeMonday #EastCoastKin #Tussocks #Landscape #Photography #BlackandWhite

The Estuary

A quiet night overlooking the Invercargill Estuary.

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#Invercargill, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Souls."

#Sunset #BlueHour #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #Estuary #Scape #RoadTrip #Travel #Scape

🤣🤣🤣🤣🥰🤣🤣🤣

Moongazer

Look up, you never know what you'll see!

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#Bluff, #NewZealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Stunday #Sunset #EastCoastKin #Scrub #Mooned

I really like it, I think it'd be stunning printed large with deep, glossy Blacks.

I mean, it's clearly upside-down...

*giggles*

Dragon's Breath 2/2

So I took that as a challenge to create a conceptual landscape, but adding nothing new, merely adjusting lights, darks, and colour tones in Lightroom. I quite enjoyed the game.

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Twizel, New Zealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

Dragon's Breath

When I posted the landscape of this image a few days ago, a friend suggested that it looked like a vast dragon blasting fire across the sky.

1/2

#Conceptual #Photography #Landscape #EastCoastKin #NewZealand

Dreams on a Rainy Night

It's a cold wet Forn Parts Friday today, so what I'd really like is to be someplace warmer, toastier. And with more fancy tropical drinks with cute umbrellas!

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#Vanuatu
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul"

#FornPartsFridays #Scape #EastCoastKin #Sunset #Travel

Crack

2/2

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

-Leonard Cohen, Anthem

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Omarama, New Zealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

Crack

You can add up the parts
But you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march
There is no drum
Every heart, every heart
To love will come
But like a refugee

1/2

#Sunset #Storm #Crack #Light #LeonardCohen #Anthem #EastCoastKin #Landscape #PhotographersofBluesky #Travel #Epic #Cloudscape

Downpour

Heavy rains sweep across the plain, lit from above by a setting sun.
Spring is always unsettled here in the high country, and the last few days have been no exception.

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#Twizel, #NewZealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Storm #Spring #EastCoastKin #Minimalism #PureNZ

Alpenglow

Rest of the valley, already snoring.
Aoraki Mt Cook, what's up guys? The evening is still young!

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#Aoraki #MtCook, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#NationalPark #Landscape #BlueHour #EastCoastKin #Hooker #LakeHooker #Travel #BucketList #epic #PureNZ

Reach for the Moon

Out tonight chasing an Aurora, but somewhat stymied by all that cloud in the way...
Fine! I'll just have to make a photo out of the clouds themselves!

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#Twizel, #NewZealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul"

#Nightscape #Canal #EastCoastKin #Landscape #Couds #Travel

Ben Ohau Rising
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#Twizel, #NewZealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #Scape #Landscape #Sunrise #Ohau #PureNZ #RealMiddleEarth #GoldenHour #PhotographersofThreads

Yeaahhhhh mate, gotta love minimalism Writ Large, hey?? :)

Thank you so much!!

Clearing
The tattered remnants of a storm clear away from the foothills.
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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Storm #PureNz #Winter #EastCoastKin #Scape #Travel

Jet

A long exposure of Mt Yasur, for #FornPartsFriday.
It's amazing how much variation there was in shape and light levels and even in the colours, depending on what was happening in the volcano.

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#Vanuatu, South Pacific
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#Scape #EastCoastKin #Volcano #Travel #Landscape #Nightscape #Volcano

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"Charmaine"

I was working on this one tonight for someone's new wall art, and I quite ran out of time to do something different for the evening's post. So this became today's scene!

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#TeAnau, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Sunrise #Landscape #EastCoastKin #Travel

Thank you, I do too! It might be my favourite from the night! Glad that you like it!

Boing!

A single exposure of the recent eclipse, doing its best impersonation of a ro-moon candle!

(15secs at f1.8, 55mm, ISO 125 )

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#Twizel, #NewZealand.
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Moon #Eclipse #LunarEclipse #Nightscape #Astro #EastCoastKin #Landscape #LandscapePhotography

A Day in the Life

Out early, camera ready. Waiting for the sun.

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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Sunrise #BlueHour #LandscapePhotography #Foton #EastCoastKin #Landscape #PureNZ #Travel #OMGItsEarly

Shreds of a Storm

Heavy weather flung over the Southern Alps on the back of gale winds, crashing to pieces upon the foothills.

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#Ohau, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Storm #Mountains #PureNZ #Remote #LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Travel #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Epic

Icing Sugar

The gnomes were busy overnight last week, scattering a whole fresh layer of icing sugar up there. Just to make me feel extra hungry. Pancakes for breakfast, I think!

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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Mountain #Snow #EastCoastKin #Sunrise #Stunday

The Mountain Base

Deep in the remote valley, surrounded by ancient forests and tall snow-capped mountains, the hut sits patiently, waiting to greet the next weary traveller and offer the gift of warmth and shelter.

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Southern Alps, #NewZealand.
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#EastCoastKin #BackCountryHuts #remote #forest

Breath of Yasur

This week's Forn Parts Friday - a throwback to one of my favourite images of Mt Yasur, with the lava ejected high into the air.

All night long, the ground shook and the air pulsed with every eruption. Amazing.

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#Vanuatu, South Pacific
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#Scape #EastCoastKin #FornPartsFridays