SUNBURST

SUNBURST!

This week's Photo of the Week was a runaway winner with more than double the views of any other Blue Lion Photo. I took this photo at just after dawn on the second to last day I was in New Zealand. We were in the beautifully quaint fishing village of Kaikoura on the NE coast of the South Island. We had visited the same site the morning before and I saw the potential for this shot as the sun rose over the jagged rocks at the shore, but I had missed the timing. Determined not to get skunked twice on the shot, we returned the following morning and were treated to a great predawn color show as the rising sun colored the clouds magnificently. Once the sun was partially above the horizon, I took my spot and waited for the magical moment when I could get capture the sunburst view you see here. amazingly enough, the sun remained in the critical position for less than a minute. Timing is indeed everything!

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Cheers!

John

Photo of the Week September 5-11

This week's Photo of  the Week was taken on the wild west coast of the South Island of New Zealand on my 2009 trip to that fascinating land. The day after visiting the Pancake Rocks at Punakaki, we had a dawn hike up to Truman Beach for shoot over the tide pools and the Tasman Sea. The "beach" at Truman was great as it was a combination of a rocky inter-tidal beach and a more familiar fine grained sand beach. As with most of our trip, we had great weather that morning. We captured a rosy dawn on the horizon and a bright moon higher in the sky. The rich, deep blues of the early light mixes with dawn's rosy fingers and the textures of the Truman shoreline really make for a rather otherworldly setting. I am very happy I was in the right place at the right time to get such a special shot. The credit for getting me to that place & time goes to Phillip Bartlett, my wonderful guide on that trip. As I have stated before, he was a superb guide and anyone wanting to visit and photograph NZ should look him up through his web site at Capture New Zealand Tours . 

Enjoy your short visit to Truman Beach ...........

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