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November 8th, 2010

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rachaelbauer
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@Serendip that's incredible.
:)

November 8th, 2010
VectorMX
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OMG hope one day i can shoot some picture half of good as yours. . .

followed . . .

November 8th, 2010
MrVisions
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Beautiful

November 8th, 2010
MiriSea
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@Serendip wow, i absolutely LOVE this!

November 8th, 2010
Matarua
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@Serendip nice light, just that perfect time, golden :)

November 8th, 2010
RisunC
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@Serendip beautiful poems!

November 8th, 2010
Bannie1
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These really brighten my day @serendip :)Your lighting is stunning as usual and I can feel the warmth of the sun, especially welcome to-day as it's wet windy and cold outside.

November 8th, 2010
Serendip
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@rachaelbauer why thank you maa'm :))

@VectorMX I don't know, I bet you could if you spent the time and took the number of shots I have done over my lifetime!

I was watching a National Geographic program on TV about a photographer photographing Afghanistan, it was great seeing him work! In the first day he shot 2,000 images (using the same camera as I use, Canon 5D MKII). He was not shy, he stood out in the crowd not only because he was a tall man, he was pointing his camera everywhere, his camera was his eyes much of the time, there was very little thought about the process of taking the pictures, that was second nature to him, his focus was on what the lens was seeing.

@MrVisions Ha! And so is your hat :)

November 8th, 2010
Serendip
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@MiriSea I'm glad :) Maybe there is that emotional element of the sunset going on in there... It was taken in Paraparaumu (often shortened to Paraparam or even Pram) where some of the most beautiful sunsets happen!

@Matarua have you been to Paraparam? Yes it certainly was just the right time, it only lasts 20-30 minutes and then starts to diminish into darkness.

@Risun lights magic :)

@Bannie1 I'm so glad I could warm your day up some :)

This is very close to a cafe we were at when the sun was blinding to sit in, as it was, on this occasion. I sat eating my crumbed fish dinner, alone, under the spotlight. I finished just as the sun was nearing the horizon, compelled to capture the moment, as you know I am :)

November 8th, 2010
edinguy
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The pictures are amazing.

November 8th, 2010
Matarua
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@Serendip yes have been to Pram but years ago, in Welly a lot tho, more central tho, right in town, have a good friend who lives at the end of Courntney, visit a few times a year...

November 8th, 2010
Dead_Philosopher
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@Serendip I did have a happy day, hope you did as well :) Lovely photography, share more!

November 8th, 2010
Lemonlily74
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@Serendip...Great photos! =D

November 8th, 2010
nightiscoming
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Love the top photo the most of all!!!

November 8th, 2010
inthemix
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http://www.livestream.com/switchdance enjoy the music ;-)

November 9th, 2010
jimbonius
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@Serendip -- Man With an Eye for Golden Light

Smashing stuff, as I've come to expect from you.

November 9th, 2010
shhsecretsquirrel
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Pretty time of day :)

November 9th, 2010
Serendip
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In alphabetical order!

@Dead_Philosopher Woohoo, a happy day is never to be under-appreciated! I suspect though if anyone experienced the ultimate happiness they would in some Einsteinian physics equation of happiness find themselves experiencing every state of experiencing life that ever was and ever shall be, so lets just say I was relatively happy on the day of posting this picture :)

@edinguy tanx Brian :)

@inthemix there is no one currently broadcasting live in the link you provided but the tunes in the videos are quite breathtaking and the fidelity is 'Hi' :)

@Inamusement it is such a pretty time of day they even have a name for it! The Golden Hour. Though in fact it is, to my mind, a short hour, but now I quibble :)

@jimbonius I think that golden light is addictive to landscape photographers. After using it to lend a subject extra surreal qualities it is hard to look at anything lit with the much bluer midday sunlight without imagining it lit with that light!

I think there is more to these images than the light, they are complex with depths deeper than just the devine gold... The tryptic does revolve around the intense gold of the manmade creation of the picnic table and chairs though. It is not my place to deconstruct my own art while it is being viewed in the gallery of this booth.

The pretentious me ;) (It feels like a pretentious day)

November 9th, 2010
Serendip
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@Lemonlily74 thank you much :)

@Matarua cool, it is much more relaxed than the hustle and bustle of Welly proper but the road between them is getting more and more congested and the rush hour is getting longer and longer...

@nightiscoming by hook or by crook you will be last in my book!

If you look into this picture in full resolution the lady is looking straight at us. It is hard to tell, but looking at the other 2 pictures of the same thing where she is not looking, the picture looses some impact imo. The big flax bush is wild, with it's frayed tips from wheathering winds over its lifetime.

Paraparam is special on this west coast in that it is sheltered by the island known as Kapiti. It is quite noticeable in it's effect giving the area less of a breezy chilly coastal feeling.

http://www.kapitiislandalive.co.nz/kapiti%20island.html

November 9th, 2010
phainopepla95
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@Serendip ~ The bad part about coming into a conversation after all the good comments have been used is you are faced to say the obvious: "Me, too!" I'm delighted with this page! Great work, my friend!

November 11th, 2010
SamiesDesign
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Thanks :)

November 12th, 2010
silentFox
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I'm wholly enchanted by the golden light of the setting sun. Awesome shot!

November 20th, 2010