No Trains today

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cause its a bit wet out there

I do like this spot, its always busy with keen bean photographers and tourists but it's still enjoyable, even now with standing room for about 3 people 😉
you really need to see this place when there is no water there to gain an understanding of how much water this is -hence in the below links you can see it with some water and with no water…

https://plus.google.com/+GerardBlacklock/posts/9jXWanonyXT
https://plus.google.com/+GerardBlacklock/posts/htM9D5NA9Rk

Capturing images in the wet is challenging, made more so when its actually pouring down with rain and blowing a gale, even with an umbrella and all the wet weather stuff for teh camera, which by the way consists of a ziplock bag and a rubber band, its a painful process of trying to keep the spray off the, here's gerrys tip of the day, when shooting crazy ass waterfalls in the wet, choose a lens that has the biggest lens hood on it 🙂

5 shot panorama image
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 70mm Aperture: f13
Shutter Speed: 3s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL.

Stillness

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Lakeside Tree

The absence of sound is an amazing thing when your surrounded by planes, trains, cars and kids every day of the week – if only there was a planet to escape to with nothing but a singular island surrounded by warm sunset to keep you company.. alrighty then… I suppose i'll take wifey and the kids too 😉

Little planet manufacture process specification:
join it, stretch it, break it, make it, wrap it
everything else is immaterial 🙂

D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70 mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f6.3 and Shutter Speed: 1/160ss
ISO: 320
out front: no filters, just a tree and some cloned out swans.

Wanaka Nudgee Tree

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breath

So, if you do a google search for 'wanka tree' (yes even with the incorrect spelling as I did 🙂 not deliberately either ) google throws you straight to a bunch of spectacular images of the famous tree in NZ, along with a few tours, on the other hand if you google 'nudgee tree' you get a few very nice images and mostly adverts for tree removal services 😉

Hence, here's my push for some tourist love for the Nudgee tree, rather than jostle with the 20 or so togs you will be with at the Wanaka Tree in NZ, you can have this one all to your self and if your feeling a little lonely just omit the inspect repellent fora whole bunch of instant friendships 🙂 you can have it with mud, or in a knee deep water, at sunrise or sunset.. the possibilities are endless 🙂

Exif love:
two shots blended together using luminosity masks
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 20s and 8 s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL, Lee graduated filter 0.6x

The Lower Empress

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Empress falls is the first real set of falls you find when making the trek down into the valley of the waters, its also one of the most spectacular and (if there could not be any more 🙂 ) its a great spot for canyoning/abseiling.

This particular spot is on the stone steps that pass over the creek and probably the most popular spot where everyone stops to grab a shot. What I really like about this spot is that nature has arranged everything quite nicely for the panoramic shot 😉 log in the centre, angled so nicely too, boulder off to the left to bookend the frame, a little glimpse of foggy foggy forest (you need to read kids book to get that joke 🙂 ) off to the left and the ferns on the right hiding that sneaky little path back out of the falls. For those familiar with the spot, you will note that I have omitted something from the frame 🙂 any guesses ? 🙂

This image was taken a month or so ago, but never processed however I heard in the news recently that a young lady lost her life at the falls just below these (Sylvia Falls), hence came back to have a look, as such, this image is for those who have not made it out of the valley. RIP.

Its a 5 shot panorama, uploaded full res.
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f14
Shutter Speed: 20s
ISO 100
Out front – Hoya CPL.

Weeping Falls

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chaos vs falls

Well done Chaos, it was a great walk and excellent effort to make it all the way to the bottom (and back up).

This is the second time I have been to these falls, the other was back in 2014,
https://plus.google.com/+GerardBlacklock/posts/KfyujBwQcfB
its such a great spot and I would love to go back again, needs a bit more water than what was there on this particular day with the girls.

No bad for handheld either 🙂