Saturday, March 13, 2010

Gone Surfing!


(The Lion Rock and its reflection on the wet sand at Piha, f/8.0, 1/225)

I'm posting some shots taken from my recent trip with the other avid photographers from our university Photography Club. I'm told that this club is one of the first clubs established in the university and it's suffice to say that it's been there since before I was born!
So the theme of the outing was something like water and waterfalls.. Oh! Behold.. We've got more than what we asked for (at least for me!). I truly enjoyed this trip since it's something I'm dear to: Hiking to waterfalls and hills and forests!

(Kite Kite Fall at Piha, f/16, 1/4)

These waterfalls are located to the west of Auckland, Waitakere, about 45 mins drive from the city center. They're truly amazing features of west Auckland, where the closest National Park to the city resides. Apart from this, this part of the city/region also offers one of the best trekking experience in the country, and I speak this from my experience of walking through part of the trails.

After exhausting most of the photographers in the group (I must admit that these guys are really soft bones!), we decided to spent our sunset in Piha, the surfers paradise! If you're an avid surfer, go brave the water in Piha or Raglan when you step to the country!

Most of the photographers had cool gadgets with them. Manfrotto tripods, several magic filters (blue, yellow, gradual, purple, sunset and even black ones!) that trick the cameras to produce superhuman shots. There's even a guy that owned a Canon 1D for Pete's sake!! I've to be contented with my UV filter and solely depends on the nature's friendly light to get the effect that I wish. Oh well, poor student! But nowhere it seems that my robust Pentax K10D failed me! Anyhow, I wouldn't want to end my post without a quick surf on the day's sumptuous outing treat! So, here we go...

(Looking down at Kite Kite Fall along the walkway, f/8, 1/400)

(NZ is famous for its ferns, f/8.0, 1/400)

(A stream along the Kite Kite Fall walkway, f/22, 0.3")

(Majestic view of the Sun crossing the horizon across Tasman Sea, f/22, 0.3")

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