Last weekend felt a little like summer. After weeks of changeable weather it felt like things were calming down and warming up.
Ideal for an al fresco breakfast in the back yard in your PJs.
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The first day of winter
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June 1 is officially the first day of winter but clearly no one told the weather gods as Wellington was treated to a stunning day. But those of you familiar with our place will know that we lose any sight of the … Continue reading
Last of the autumn sun
I’ve mentioned a few times that our place loses the sun for a couple of months every winter. This means we all make the most of any chance to enjoy a sunny day in autumn.
So when Rosie the 19 year old cat, Poppie the 8 year old Bichon and Bella the nutcase puppy had a chance to lie in the sun last weekend, they took it.
Home again
After just over a week on the road we arrived home last Thursday. It had been a great break but we were all exhausted.
A huge thank you to the whole Pohara team who are now, once again, spread all around the globe.
Pohara panorama – 5 shots stitched together using Photoshop
Here comes the sun …
Making use of a Beatles song title seemed the most appropriate way to herald the arrival of the good weather at Pohara – and hopefully the start of a long hot summer break.
I got the chance to head out around the coast yesterday with a camera and accompanied by my photographic assistant to take a few shots. Although we’ve been to Pohara a couple of times in the past, this is the first time I’ve really had the chance to discover the coast. It really is worth seeing.
As I write this the rest of the team are at the beach swimming, jet skiing, building sand castles and soaking up the sun. Just like when we were kids – except for the jet skiing bit of course.
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- The umbrella drys under blue sky
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- The coast to the east of Pohara
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- An unusual land mark
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- The photographers assistant at work
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- Pohara Beach stretches into the distance
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- Daisies cling to a cliff face
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- A man clings to a cliff face …
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- No, it’s actually a climber
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- The wind drives waves to the shore
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- Still working
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- The coast looking towards Abel Tasman National Park
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- Pohara Beach
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- Rain across the bay
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- Black and white rock formation
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- Bay with rain in the distance
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- Road through the rock
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- Poppie minding the camera gear
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- Toi Toi, blue sky and sun – summer at the beach
Partial Eclipse of the Sun
Today at 10:47am everything around our place went a little dark. The culprit was a partial eclipse of the sun – where the moon gets between the sun and the earth and we see the sun partially obscured. It was a little eerie as a beautiful sunny Wellington morning regressed to post dawn light and the temperature turned chilly.
To me it was the ideal opportunity to try solar photography. So my tripod, laptop and camera were set up in the front yard to capture the event.
Now we all know it’s not a good idea to look directly at the sun. Well it’s an even worse idea to look at the sun – even one partly obscured – through a camera eyepiece when a 300mm zoom lense is strapped on the front.
In fact, almost 6 hours later, I still seem to have a mysterious spot of intense white light obscuring part of my vision.
But, good news, I actually got a shot or two and after a wee bit of Photoshop correction it’s a fair representation of the event – nothing spectacular, but up close an eclipse is, fundamentally, just an eclipse.
Having said that, I probably could have simply generated the same thing in Photoshop and saved myself the temporary blindness.
For those who are into the detail, this shot was taken at ISO 100, f32, 1/8000 of a second.
Here comes the sun
From the end of May to the middle of August our house loses the sun.
For the other 10 months of the year it basks in the golden glow but for the darkest depths of winter the sun teases us as it passes over the front fence never coming any closer. This was one of the reasons we decided to spend July in Europe each year usually returning just as the sun started to creep inside again.
Over the last few days we have seen the sun start to return – much to the delight of Poppie who spent this morning asleep on her recently adopted rug on the stair landing, warmed by the sun.
For Jean and I it means that summer is that little bit closer.
toscanakiwi 