The Rain, the Park and Other things...

[Tronhard]

Another soggy weekend and the dams were full in the Waitakere Ranges east of Auckland city, alternating between drizzle and intense showers - a perfect day for some rainy day shots at the Lower Nihotupu Dam, one of Auckland's reservoirs.







Canon EOS M5, EF-M 18-150mm - sheltered under a baseball cap.

[Shadowman]

Nice compositions.

[NorthernFocus]

Really nicely done set of images, Trevor. Some really nice compositions and a good job of presenting the greens the way we see them. Under such conditions the greens don't come through at all in my RAW files and have to be brought out. Well done.

[Artshot]

Very nice, especially the second one with the sweeping curves.

[Manfred M]

Nicely done. The diffuse light on a rainy day definitely changes the nature of the scene. Like Art, I particularly like the spillway shown in the second image.

[Tronhard]

Thank you John, Dan Art and Manfred!

The spillway produces these really interesting wave patterns when the wind combines with a over-spill:


In case Donald comes by for a look, this square format is inspired by him!

[tbob]

Quite like the misty hills in #1 and the curve in #2 Any hope you combined the two in an image?

[rpcrowe]

Trev, these are really nice captures. I'd love to get a few shots like this. Could you possibly share a little of that rain with us folks in drought ridden Southern California

[Tronhard]

Quite like the misty hills in #1 and the curve in #2 Any hope you combined the two in an image?

Hi Trevor!

Thank you kind sir! Actually that is exactly what it looked like at the time. No a huge amount of PP - the usual lens corrections, come clarity and a bit of colour intensity and that was about it. I have never actually tried combining images yet.

[Tronhard]

Trev, these are really nice captures. I'd love to get a few shots like this. Could you possibly share a little of that rain with us folks in drought ridden Southern California

Hi Richard:

We would gladly send you some of our surplus water - and we have quite a bit. Two major cyclones (combined with king tides) and several deep depressions within a month have wreaked havoc with NZ's infrastructure and a lot of people's vacations. We are bracing ourselves for what is currently a category 4 cyclone that has clobbered Tonga and Samoa and could come visit us. This intensity of weather events is, in my lifetime, totally unprecedented.

[Wavelength]

Excellent images

[MillennialDusk]

Very nice photos. The first is my favorite, because it seems to feature the smokey hills the best.

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[Tronhard]

Very nice photos. The first is my favorite, because it seems to feature the smokey hills the best.

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Thanks Julius! We are in for a serious soaking next week when we hammered by a full-blown tropical cyclone. I may be able to get more weather shots but not as placid as these, I fear.

[Otavio]

Nice series, Trev. The composition in #2 is magnificient!