Posts Tagged ‘Hawkes Bay’


Milky Way over Bare Island, Waimarama, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

This is another photo from a recent visit to Waimarama to shoot the Milky Way, and in this frame I managed to capture a meteor. The shot reminded me of the photo I took last year at Kairakau with the ISS traveling along the Milky Way ( http://bit.ly/160AC47 ), hence the title.

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Friday was a stunning clear summers evening, and I knew the the glow from the galactic core of the Milky Way would be visible on the horizon around 4am the next morning. It had been a few months since the core was visible in the southern hemisphere night skies, so I headed down to Ocean Beach in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand to see what I could capture.

Upon arrival the sky was full of stars, and the bright core of the Milky Way was rising on the horizon to the east. I stood there by a small stream and watched the reflections of the stars on the water, so I set up my tripod and camera to capture this amazing scene in front of me. While I was waiting for the exposures, it gave me time to just look up at the stars and reflect on life – It’s certainly moments like these that makes you appreciate everything around you…

copyright 2015 | Mark Gee | theartofnight.com

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Friday was a stunning clear summers evening, and I knew the the glow from the galactic core of the Milky Way would be visible on the horizon around 4am the next morning. It had been a few months since the core was visible in the southern hemisphere night skies, so I headed down to Ocean Beach in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand to see what I could capture.

Upon arrival the sky was full of stars, and the bright core of the Milky Way was rising on the horizon to the east. I stood there by a small stream and watched the reflections of the stars on the water, so I set up my tripod and camera to capture this amazing scene in front of me. While I was waiting for the exposures, it gave me time to just look up at the stars and reflect on life – It’s certainly moments like these that makes you appreciate everything around you…

copyright 2015 | Mark Gee | theartofnight.com

http://bit.ly/1uX3xSx