... In early morning light.
Lack of sleep made me get up 5something AM, looking out of my window and seeing some beautiful colors coming up in the sky. So out into the car and up Mount Victoria! Here my first images from this early morning...

Here some play with photos from my Archives, just for the fun of it!

Some time, at the end of November 2018, we had a storm front closing in, just around sunset time. This often causes some peculiar light effects, extreme color casts etc. When I looked out of my window around 8 PM, I saw everything tinted in yellow/golden light, much stronger than just a usual sunset. So I packed up my cameras, tripod and bits & pieces and headed for the Waterfront.
By then the clouds have moved further in, it started to rain, and the light turned from golden to all shades of Jade and Turquoise - Just beautiful.
​This picture is a panorama of 20 shots in two rows of 10 each, and the colors are those of the sky and sea at the time of shooting.
This was taken at one of my favorite spots, behind Te Papa Museum, at the statue Solace of the Wind - no Wind at that particular time though!

Here the first set of shots I did at our Christmas convention with The Fashion Creative.
We had a good time, and I had opportunity to do some natural light portrait photography.
The ever present Wellington wind played right into my hands!
Models:
Hannah Milson
Olivia Tilyard
Kimre Viviers
Dresses:
​Louise Stitchbury
Location:
Wellington Racing Club

Some "road-side" shots I did over the last 12 Months, and me, having fun with editing.
​Have a great weekend everyone!

Another shot of those gorgeous rainbows we had popping up all around Wellington about a week ago. I posted this airplane passing through a double rainbow back then.
This image does, unfortunately, not show all of this double rainbow in its full glory, as my angle was far too low. Visibility was much better from the hills higher up - but hey, from there I would have missed that plane.
What I like about this image though, is the shape of those threatening storm clouds, which seem to follow the shape of the rainbow. It even gives the impression of those clouds being encased.
This image is a panorama of three shots, and, as most of my photos, available as printed version,

A few days ago, we had a storm front closing in, just around sunset time. This often causes some peculiar light effects, extreme color casts etc. When I looked out of my window around 8 PM, I saw everything tinted in yellow/golden light, much stronger than just a usual sunset. So I packed up my cameras, tripod and bits & pieces and headed for the Waterfront.
By then the clouds have moved further in, it started to rain, and the light turned from golden to all shades of Jade and Turquoise - Just beautiful.
​This picture is a panorama of 20 shots in two rows of 10 each, and the colors are those of the sky and sea at the time of shooting.
This Image was taken from the Clyde Quay Wharf (or Overseas Terminal), facing the Harbor and CBD.
​I'll post some more of those soon.

I finally made it to the Gallipoli Exhibition at Te Papa Museum, Wellington. The breathtaking artwork has been done by Weta Workshop. Those human figures are 2.4 size. Weta Workshop spent 24000 hours of labour working on this exhibition. This is one of my reasons not to add my watermark to those photos, as the credit of the real work has to go to Weta!
This was something I wanted to see since a long time, but usually it was just too crowded, understandable...
This exhibition really touched me, far beyond my admiration of the artwork. The experience is sobering, left me deep in thoughts and caused goosebumps more than once.
If you come to Wellington, this is a definite must-do

Last night, on the way to a shooting, I just had to stop at the sight of those rainbows.
There will be some more, but this one was such a strike of luck, Jetstar flight JQ261 approaching Wellington International Airport, about 16:30.
I wonder how it might feel to pass through between two rainbows...