Conclusion of the Project
I am sorry, but it was a little rainy. 😉
[Disclaimer: What you are about to hear is German.]
Night Is Falling
Here another photo post for a change. 🙂
My recent days, rather quiet ones (for there’s no work) at my last flat in New Zealand I design laid back. I sleep in and think about my plans about the coming, much more thrilling time.
But one night we took on a little trip with my dear flatmates. We went out to Aramoana and the rest the pictures will tell. 😉
We were lucky to have a sunny day in the midst of many rather bleak ones…
My flatmates went beyond the signs, but I stayed for a certain reason. 😉
For here I had much more interesting shots to take.
Pink flakes of candy cotton around the wonder ball. 😛
Yesterday night I went a few steps from our flat and captured the Dunedin panorama for you…
Some houses on the peninsula. And upright! 😀
As a trained electronics technician (and photographer), my eye got caught by this power pole…
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Only 6 more times I need to sleep and my time here in Dunedin is up! Then I will go up north with my flatmate Andrej and will welcome my parents in Wellington in the end!
Until then, I will have to use up all kinds of food, think about these and those things and complete miscellaneous tasks. It begins to dawn on me that the coming 3,5 weeks won’t be comparable to the last 3 months in any way.
I am looking forward to that time, every last bit of myself is looking forward to it… 😀
And I want to thank you all for the positive response to my little project and post the (for now) second-last part:
[Disclaimer: What you are about to hear is German.]
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First of all I want to apologize for the inferior sound quality of the previous recordings, as my laptop chose to record with its internal microphone.
From now, I only record using my external microphone, which should make for an improved listening experience. 🙂
This, by the way, is the hundredth blog post I have posted here. A good moment to look back and to marvel. But the actual content might just be enough to adorn this post. 😉
Without further ado:
[Disclaimer: What you are about to hear is German. Well…most of it.]
Astrophotography
Here are some pictures and words on my most recent little adventure…
I meticulously informed myself beforehand and that night everything was perfect. The sky was clear and later that evening I set out the Otago Peninsula.
I wanted to photograph the stars. More precisely the milky way. I chose one of the most far out places in the peninsula and had an adventurous trip though the dark. You have the best sight on the stars without any disruptive light sources… Unbelievably, how many bunnies are out there that time of the night. 😀 No worries Celine, I took great care not to run one over. 😉
Even two of the infamous, kiwi bird eating parasites of Possums I caught in my headlights. But I could not just cold-heartedly run those whimsical animals over. Sorry New Zealand!
Unfortunately clouds got between my and the stars, so that I had to resign and go on my way back.
But I didn’t care about stopping and taking some shots of the city lights from the side of the road. One of them had been spoiled beyond repair by a car driving by. 😀
View on the other side of the harbour bay.
Dunedin at night.
To restore my happiness, the clouds took off then and I chose Tunnel Beach to be the next stop. I got there at about 1am, felt like a true night owl and set up my tripod. Sadly our galaxy’s core is only visible in Winter from the southern hemisphere and thus, I got ‘only’ the regular milky way. With some sweets from home alongside my trusty thermos I bridged the long exposures well. 😉
An incredible view, hardly to be captured with a camera (even more with my small one). I edited the pictures a little, so you can see more… 🙂 Photographing the stars really puts my camera to the tests though…
