At home in Wanaka
I'm always passionate about New Zealand landscape photography, but as I look back on thousands of colour slides of same and some 16,000 more recent digital images [still not enough for the library I have in mind!] I've come to the conclusion that landscapes are always there - but it's people that are precious!
I love capturing the moment, but there are many moments I see each day, yet I'm not quite in the right location, and don't have a camera. Then when you have these two ingredients, the next important one is a strong sense of anticipation. Multi exposures of maybe 2-4 per second even strangely just don't seem to cut it. The great shot too is usually the first one, which gives credence to the concept of planning.
So today's satisfying effort was of this family, that visited my office today on a work basis...
But then there is the other photographic phenomena - the "seeing" of something in nothing. This shot, same office desk, but obviously different lighting and subject...
On one of my recent local Wanaka walks I did rediscover a stone seat in memory of an acquaintance of long ago. Phil was a really nice guy...
Some years ago I meet his mum in another context, and remarked on the photos of Cerro Torre on her wall. As she had a different last name it took a moment to piece it all together. Anyway she had a stone seat made overlooking a beach on Lake Wanaka, and last evening I found it rather poignant.
And of course the autumn colours just get richer daily...
Today's Donald'ism:
In every event experienced in life we have two simple choices:
To view it negatively, or view it positively.
The former choice can also cause suffering in another, while the latter choice demands a smile, so we make someone's day a little better.
It seems a "no brainer" to decide which is best for our own soul, but sometimes it's harder than we think!
So take a moment to breathe in the experience, and distill whatever action we think we must take down to just the two choices! Then the final decision of positiveness, I find is easy!
I love capturing the moment, but there are many moments I see each day, yet I'm not quite in the right location, and don't have a camera. Then when you have these two ingredients, the next important one is a strong sense of anticipation. Multi exposures of maybe 2-4 per second even strangely just don't seem to cut it. The great shot too is usually the first one, which gives credence to the concept of planning.
So today's satisfying effort was of this family, that visited my office today on a work basis...
But then there is the other photographic phenomena - the "seeing" of something in nothing. This shot, same office desk, but obviously different lighting and subject...
On one of my recent local Wanaka walks I did rediscover a stone seat in memory of an acquaintance of long ago. Phil was a really nice guy...
Some years ago I meet his mum in another context, and remarked on the photos of Cerro Torre on her wall. As she had a different last name it took a moment to piece it all together. Anyway she had a stone seat made overlooking a beach on Lake Wanaka, and last evening I found it rather poignant.
And of course the autumn colours just get richer daily...
Today's Donald'ism:
In every event experienced in life we have two simple choices:
To view it negatively, or view it positively.
The former choice can also cause suffering in another, while the latter choice demands a smile, so we make someone's day a little better.
It seems a "no brainer" to decide which is best for our own soul, but sometimes it's harder than we think!
So take a moment to breathe in the experience, and distill whatever action we think we must take down to just the two choices! Then the final decision of positiveness, I find is easy!
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9:55 PM
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