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Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:15 AM
Straight after work, I decided to take a drive to Piha, West Auckland. Lots of cool wet windy roads, great fun.. :eek:
Anyway, last few weeks, and in particular, the past 4 days, has been awful weather, hail storms, winds of 115km/h in Auckland, and some small flooding in areas. So I thought I would be stupid and go along to one of the most rugged places, front on to the rough weather. It's been a bit patchy today. A couple of thunderstorms lasted 2 min, and it also hailed twice for a short period as well, also there was sun in between. Ah I hate this weather.
So here are the pics from just now.
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:16 AM
A view from above
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:18 AM
(3 was very similar to 2, except I decided to include the flax plant in the bottom of the pic, just for some style :p)
Down at the beach... titanomagnetite sand (ferrous/iron)
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:19 AM
some more of South Piha
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:22 AM
Through the gap.. more rugged scenery
[SK]hi-C
10-01-2003, 12:24 AM
wow looks very nice in New Zealand Wazza great pictures sorry to hear about the rain but hey it only makes the pictures better keep up the good work dude:beer:
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:26 AM
Some froth for the beer. :beer:
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:27 AM
2 seconds later, the sky looks a lot lighter
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:29 AM
This pic quality isnt too great. I was standing like 700metres away, and saw these big waves crashing into the rocks... I took this pic, but the wave crashes went twice this height! That's probably 10 metres high.. The wave swell is 2-3 metres...
Typical waves are around 1.5-2 metres often.. Regarded as THE best surf beach in NZ by many. ;)
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:32 AM
PS. I was running down the beach trying to catch the sun and stuff... Totally exhausted myself.. not really that fit :(
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:32 AM
Getting darker..
^_^
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:34 AM
Love these type of shots... too bad, I didn't click it over to a higher resolution before.. taken at 1280x960. - shucks what am I complaining about. :?
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:35 AM
These clouds looked amazing...
New desktop pic
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:37 AM
Yet some more clouds etc
Wazza
10-01-2003, 12:40 AM
Oh, that's it sorry.
If anyone wants any of the pics larger, just give a yell, and I can send through or upload pics at 1280x960 or 1600x1200 or whatever you want :)
Too bad the clouds in the distance came over quick and started raining again.
I was hoping to take some pics of the sky and darkness, and use the tripod for long exposure shots. Maybe another day.
-^
Sepecat
10-01-2003, 05:50 AM
Great Pictures Mate…….
I especially like 2, 8, & 13…. The rest were great as well, but this 3 stood out for me…
I hope you got more to share ;)
George`
WCOutlaw
10-01-2003, 08:15 AM
Wow, those are amazing - lovely scenery around there - looks just beautiful...
I love that picture from above of that bay area (pic 2) as well as the desktop pic you selected and the one after.
Thanks for sharing man :) -^
Wazza
10-01-2003, 11:57 PM
thanks, and too bad you couldnt' feel the strong winds there!
The 2nd pic, is always a nice view from the road near the top of the Waitakere Ranges.. looks really fuzzy, as the wind was whipping in some sea spray and sand.
[SK]hi-C
10-02-2003, 03:04 AM
those waves look no joke look like they can pull a man out to sea no problem=((
Y2kGoofball
10-09-2003, 04:58 AM
very nice scenery indeed:D
Wazza
10-14-2003, 10:11 PM
OK, FINALLY, for the first time in about 5 weeks, Auckland had a fine day! I'm not joking ,but I haven't seen a full day of sun in a longgggg time!
Anyway, Niki suggested we went to Piha, again.....
But, I did indeed get some cool new shots.
Most are the same, so won't include them, but also I've just been trying to do some cool fun things with the camera..
Here's a handful
Wazza
10-14-2003, 10:15 PM
Using Adobe Gamma corrector stuff, so I'm never sure what the true colour looks like! Through photoshop, the colour was darker ,and richer. But through IE6, it was a bit lighter, and in that previous pic, it's not just a black figure, but can see a bit of detail..
Anyway.
Wazza
10-14-2003, 10:17 PM
Silky?
)=)
Wazza
10-14-2003, 10:19 PM
Not greatly, huge waves.... They can get HUGE
Pic taken with full zoom, probably 200-300 metres away
Wazza
10-14-2003, 10:20 PM
Sun, almost touching the horizon
Wazza
10-14-2003, 10:24 PM
last one..
The sun is going down...
PS. Right now, I'm going out again, the following day, to another beach.. perhaps I can get some more :")
Today has also been a beautiful day.. temperatures around 3-20*C
Sepecat
10-15-2003, 06:23 AM
Very Nice Wazza, As Always.....
George`
monaro
10-20-2003, 04:58 AM
that outline picture is awesome, but even playing just with the contrast and brightness you can geta greatefect like this;
monaro
10-20-2003, 04:59 AM
and here you can see the detail...
Wazza
10-24-2003, 10:19 PM
hehe nice work!
All the images, were just resized, and not changed with any colour or brightness, as then anyone else can edit them themselves for their true colours, as everyones monitors and printers do come out a bit different.
The Kodak print of the outline image, did come out quite vibrant, such as your first image. Not quite as great, but still quite amazing. I was afraid in printing, they would brighten up Niki, rather than keeping it a pretty solid black object.
SkyBum
11-19-2003, 06:20 PM
Nice pics. REALLY makes me wish I wasn't landlocked in Utah.