28/09/19, I was driving round the South Coast towards Wellington Airport, when I saw this in my mirror, just beyond Island Bay!
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Some lighter subject today. This is a long exposure panorama of two images, stitched vertically.
Wellington South Coast at sunset.
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​Yeah, I know, some will hate me for that. But sorry, I just don't like when people litter around, not decades ago, and not now. It does make for some interesting photos, but it doesn't change the fact, this stuff doesn't belong here!

​I know, I might walk some thin ice here and even upset some people – But, so what?
What’s all this bitching about Greta Thunberg’s speech and her actions?
Why do I read so much about who might have sponsored her, about her being dramatic, etc?
Why do I read so much about the messenger, and not about the actual message she delivers?
Is it because some people fear when others talk facts? When our comfi, established lifestyle might turn out to be a dangerous one that harms everybody else?
Why do I not read much about people thinking/suggesting changes?
Why do I read statements dismissing her message as “that’s just a 16 year old child being dramatic”? Isn’t the really dramatic thing actually behind her message?
And who would listen if it weren’t dramatic? Wouldn’t it then be dismissed as being boring?
Well, climate change is an actual thing which everyone can see if they bother to look! Nobody can seriously believe that 150 years of blowing poison into the atmosphere has no effect on it at all, right? Bitching about the ones who dare to talk about it, seems just a try to drown the actual facts. If someone is discredited severely enough, their message might just go down without much thought. That seems to be how we humans think.
This photo was taken way back, in 2010, in a place not many think about very often (I guess most people weren’t even there, at least not that close). The southern landfill. This is layers upon layers of our rubbish, many meters thick, filling some of the valleys in the hills between Brooklyn and the Ocean. This is the ugly side of our comfort zone…

Oh, and this one is not for sale - everyone can go up there and have a look!

Those shots are from the same night as those in my last post. Amazing how much change different lighting and a very short lens can cause...
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At events, with lots of photographers around, I tend to stray from the path and focus more on the "side-shows".
This was at one of the Wellington Lux festivals, on the way from one exhibit to the next.
Before you ask where this is, it's close to the chocolate factory. But this view is now blocked by a ceiling, built into that part of the building.
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... was the theme of a photo competition by Guru Shots, a very large international photographic community, the competition featured on Digital Camera World!
I entered the picture below, and ended up on rank 83 of the top 100, please find the slideshow here. I can't tell how many entries there were, but it's usually a couple of thousands. The sum of votes on all pictures entered was 47.9 million (!)
I think rank 83 is quite something, regarding those numbers...
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More images from last weekend.
When I started out, it was foggy and drizzly, but it brightened up later. This caused some beautiful soft lighting ...
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One more shot, looking from Brooklyn towards Petone, on a partly overcast and drizzly day - Well, not too unusual for the season!
Panorama composed of 12 single photos.
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Yesterday Wellington showed its wet and foggy face. The surrounding hills were covered in drizzly fog, and looked a bit spooky - reason enough for me to do some exploring.
There are a few cycling and walking paths around the wind turbines in Brooklyn, so I decided to walk up there for a bit. about 30-40 minutes into the path, I found this. I asked myself, why would people dump such stuff up there? Besides the harmful effects of dumping junk in general, and polluting our beautiful landscape, why do people actually go out of their way and drag a 2-stroke engine (which is actually rather heavy) into a bush landscape, on uneven paths, 40 minutes walk from the closest street, and place into a tree? Why didn't they just drive to the landfill, park straight beside the appropriate scrap metal container and just lift it in there?
Honestly, littering one's own back yard isn't just a bad habit, it's doing real harm and affects everyone. But really, making an actual effort to do this, leaves me rather speechless.
At least, nature is claiming back what's taken from her, and at least this engine in the fork of a tree makes for some interesting photography. Still, I'd rather prefer to have JUST the tree in my photos...
This stuff must lie there since years, so, think about what you're doing, please.

Yes, I have Tui photos too... They pop up all through the net at the moment, so here are mine!
This guy was pretty insisting, literally following me for some hundred meters, when I was walking along Tarakena Bay to shoot some waves. In the end, It was him, not waves I photographed...
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Long exposure, 10 seconds to be exact. This causes choppy water to look milky, smoky, surreal. It also makes fast moving clouds look like streaks.
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The Milky Way, seen on an early morning from Island Bay, Wellington.
This is a panorama stitched together from 24 single shots in two rows of twelve images each.
The star cluster on the top left is the large Magellanic Cloud.
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... on a rainy evening. 
Those diagonal wisps are sheets of rain coming from the clouds and lit up by the setting sun.
This is a panorama of 22 single images, in 2 rows of 11 images each, which gives it a resolution of more than 100 megapixel.
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One of my favorite locations, Moa Point.
Some not-too-windy evening with some interesting cloud formation.
This is a one row panorama, stitched from 10 single photos.
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