Limestone pools in Punakaiki
Seewed in limestone pool at sunset in Punakaiki, Paparoa National Park, West Coast, New Zealand
Just a few days ago I came back from my another trip in Paparoa National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand.
On my last, mostly scouting visit, I found several locations I’ve been eager to photograph. The amazing limestone formations can stir your imagination quite well.
I had this frame in my head for quite some time so I waited for the right conditions of the right tide with some clouds and colour in the sky.
This beautiful pool with green seaweed in it together with an amazing ornamentation on the rock’s surface suggested for this beautiful photograph. Using ND Gradual filters was necessary to balance out bright skies against dark foreground and, to let the greens of seaweed shine.
Needless to say, there is much more awaiting to be captured, and my pre-visualization of other frames can’t stop.
That means I’m already planing my next trip to this location to be very soon.
I’m thrilled with this capture and I hope you’ll like it too!
Cheers and Enjoy!
Icy Fringes
Beautiful shapes of deep, freshly snowed up crevasses on Franz Josef Glacier, Westland National Park, West Coast, New Zealand
This shot is from last winter on Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand.
It was a beautiful day, as it always is on the West Coast and which is why you wanna be on ice, right?
I was on one of my explorations of this glacier. Since the glacier’s changing literally every day, you can keep coming back all the time and always see some new magic.
On this day, it was these turquoise fringes of the crevasses which caught my attention, as they were shining from a distance at me.
I love these ice colours but it is not easy to get around locations like this, especially in winter when every crack, deep crevasse or whole is covered with snow. These adventures can truly be deadly if you don’t know what you’re doing. I’ve been tip toeing around these crevasses, poking the ground in front of me before I put my next step down. I wanted to get as close as I could to get a nice wide angle shot with a lot of detail.
Standing on the slippery edge of the crevasse I made this exposure with my 12-24 mm wide angle lens at 12mm and with +1.3 EV exposure compensation.
Only very little of touch up on this RAW file in Lightroom was required to finalize the frame.
I hope you’ll like it as I do.
Enjoy!
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