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Fotoeins Friday, Helgoland: dawn light over Düne

I can hear the faint gentle lapping of the ocean against the shoreline outside my apartment window on Helgoland. But it’s the steady alarm that pushes me out of bed to catch the early light of day in late-May. For my time on a chunk of rock in the middle of the North Sea, I’m very satisfied, as oranges and purples hang over the silhouette of Düne island in the distance.

I made the image above with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime on 24 May 2024 with the following settings: 1/60-sec, f/10, ISO2000, 14mm focal length with the WCL-X70 (21mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-w8z.

New Zealand : Wellington Daybreak from Mount Victoria

Before visiting the South Island for the first time, I spent a week with friends in Wellington, New Zealand at the beginning of July 2012. I didn’t have my own set of wheels, but I didn’t need a car in a compact city that is easy to cover on foot. If necessary, the buses work well to reach most destinations in greater Wellington.

The winter weather had been beautiful and relatively calm, which I thought was a little unusual for winter in “windy Welly”. But I was definitely not one to complain, and before leaving Wellington, I wanted to watch the sunrise from the summit of Mount Victoria.

At a height of about 200 metres or 660 feet, Mount Victoria (Tangi Te Keo in Maori) may be more like a hill, but it’s tall enough to get a great view of the city and the harbour. Wellington harbour is also known as Port Nicholson, and Te Whanganui a Tara in Maori.

I caught the first buses of the day: what would I see? Would the skies be clear? I was the sole person to alight the bus at the summit, just minutes before sunrise. There’s something to be said to be the only person at the summit to welcome the brand new day.

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