Its gotta be the most recognisable tree on the planet I reckon. Some old fence post out in a lake in New Zealand which was never satisfied with just being a fence post, grew into a worldwide icon.
Myself and Rodney Campbell did get to this tree pretty early, much earlier than all the other tourists, the ones with gumboots and the ones with drones. Hence we did have it all to ourselves for a short time.
It is a fantastic tree, another one of those places in NZ that you could just throw your camera at it and get a great shot. I took alot of shots here, this one is probably my fav, I’ll post all the b sides next, there is a lot of them…
Took a stroll up this little hill for sunset. Sunset actually turned out alright.
Here’s some fun facts about Roys peak, from the carpark to the peak is about 7km and has a elevation gain of 1295m, I can confirm, going up is harder than going down. For me, it was a little under 2 hours to the dunny (instagram spot) and another 30 minutes to the actual peak. The time down was 1 and half hours with a bit of trail running to activate the legs. The path on the way up was muddy, but on the way down frosted and frozen over. There was snow at the top with parts of the path icy as f.
This shot was was pretty well one of the last shots I took before heading back down. The colour was still nice and very soft and everyone else had left with not a breath of wind and silence that would wake you when your dead.
If you look to the bottom right, you can see the carpark.
Looking for rock jokes? Let’s see what I can dig up.
So I could go on with the spiel on how this has been all planned out and the tides aligned with the seashells blah blah , but I’ll save those keyboard strokes for something better
During the first half of the milkyway season the core of the milkyway rises thru the gap at hanging rock at a reasonable time, basically just on dark night time, in this case around 6:30 pm. So it makes it a reasonable proposition to get to the rock and back out again at a reasonable hour, which is kinda key since its a bit of trek in.
It was a bit f-ing windy so not many shots on the edge of the cliff, its freaky enough here during the daytime on the edge, but in a pitch black night with the wind gusting I opted for not ending up on the channel 9 news.
This shot is panorama of 9 horizontally oriented shots to give the perspective from the ground right up to the sky directly above. I dunno whether the streaks are meteorites or satellites probably both.
9 shots using the Viltrox 16mm f1.8 , ISO 1600, 13 sec.
The orange glow on the horizon is the lights from the Sydney basin.
If your looking to go here, take your pushbike its a easy 20 minute ride in followed by 15 minute walk and about a 15 minute walk out followed by a 30 minute ride since its more uphill on the way out. Watch the edge of the cliff, the path is close to it and unless ya got a wingsuit and a pray its all over.
Also known as Burramoko Ridge and Baltzers Lookout
I certainly hope the pax of the SriLankan did not see the outside of this aircraft 🙂
Most people in the know recognise that the paint is not gonna impact your aircraft serviceability, however the optics of it in the eyes of the average punter are not good…
A few shots on our bike ride around the airport track.
The soon they geofence the hell out these the better, lucky they got a little green light on them, saved me many a stack in the park when running at night and someone has parked it in a stupid place in the middle of he path…
