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Category: Landscape

Airglow, sheeps and Magellanic clouds

Te Mata peak again! Great place to astrophotography didn’t dissapoint even on 20th June 2014 ad allowed me to make new portraits of colorful southern night sky. This time the main part was played by sheeps on one small summit with Magellan clouds above. So close and so far in same time. And red airglow…
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Sheepy Moon

If you are on New Zealand, just deal with the sheeps everywhere. Sheeps on hills, sheeps ond roads, on farms, on roofs… and almost on the Moon. This lucky shot I made in the morning on 20th June 2014 before planting job on hills above the Pourerere Beach, New Zealand, where not to meet a…
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A view under the Universe

Moving on, second half of June I spent in Hastings. Kind of retro city offers amazing hills just a few minutes drive from the center. Hill called Te Mata peak (by maori language “the peak of Sleeping giant”) is almost 400 meters above sea level and there is a view to east and south just…
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Morning star over the Hot Water Beach

What a wonderful view to the Zealand’s morning star. This shot of rising Venus I capturen on 7th June, 2014, before I decided to try a luck with morning green flash of the rising Sun over the Hot Water Beach, New Zealand. Used Canon 6D, 70-300 mm, ISO 1250, 1/90s

The blue and green flash

How rare phenomenon! When the Sun on 7th June 2014 rised above the Pacific ocean from Hot Water Beach, New Zealand, I was able tu capture so amazing moment – a blue flash. Occasionally is possible to capture the green one caused by the atmospheric bending or refraction of sunlight. But to see (and capture)…
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Memories from Hot Water Beach

One of the most famous places on the north island of New Zealand is Coromandel peninsula. Amazing stony coves with far rocky islands like a teeth of dragon from seas are maybe the most visited in this area. But also very popular is “Hot Water Beach“, where you can literally dig your own spa during…
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Inside the Cathedral

One of the most famous places on the north island of New Zealand is Coromandel peninsula. Amazing stony coves with far rocky islands like a teeth of dragon from seas are maybe the most visited in this area. One of the most visited and photographed place is “Cathedral cove“. People travel here especially during dusk…
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