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Category: Landscape

The dreamer of Tenerife

There are lot of beautiful places in the world for dreaming under the starry night sky. One of it is surely the National Park Teide on Tenerife, Canary Island. And that’s the place I captured this calm moment with a dreamer lying on the ground, watching the Milky way as a smoke coming from the…
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The magic Mangaia night

Back in the paradise! The Cook Islands were just amazing. Too sad that I had to leave. After that New Zealand is “only” a beautiful country. I still remember the beautiful night sky on 25th/26th August 2014 on Mangaia island, where is almost nobody – just so nice local people and the night sky like…
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Mangaia: The window to the Universe

What a beautiful night on 25th/26th August 2014 on Mangaia, the Cook Islands. I witnessed shooting stars from the descending activity of Perseid meteor shower, incredibly bright zodiacal light and zodiacal bridge across the sky and Milky Way with countless dark nebulae – dusty clouds in the level of our Galaxy splitting the Milky Way…
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Do you believe in paradise?

Do you believe in paradise? Many people still dream about it, but I don’t have to anymore. I was there. Turqoise lagoon, beautiful Polynesian dancers, smell of the ocean, coconut palms… But not only that. After a long wait, my first night – after 4 years waiting to get here again – came on 18th…
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Where James Cook appeared…

Tolaga Bay is awesome place with the longest wharf in the country. Well, this place is also known for James Cook sail around. And as I stood on the beach this August 12th (2014), waiting for the moonrise, I realized this is probably the same direction where the Maori people could see James Cook coming…
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Between two ways

There are two ways on this picture, captured on 29th June 2014 not so far from Waihau beach of New Zealand. The first way is on the ground, heading to far beach. The upper way is much more unique to see – it’s a projection of our Galaxy called Milky way. Somewhere far seems to…
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What Tolkien didn’t see

As Peter Jackson made New Zealand so famous by the Lord of the ring movies, everybody is traveling across the country to see the places of all scenes. But does everybody think about what could Glumm or Frodo actually see, when they spent every night of their journey under the clear skies? Well, this could…
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