Purakaunui Falls
Apr. 25th, 2024 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerTwo weeks ago Wednesday was a busy day for us in New Zealand. A second day of rain rained out our plans to go hiking in the mountains near Queenstown— again— but over breakfast we called an audible: we'd drive to a different part of the island and visit four waterfalls. Then in addition to hiking four falls I drove over 500 km. Like I said, it was a busy day.
Our first hike of the day started easily enough. The trail for Purakaunui Falls seemed pretty remote, but once we were there it was well signed, and a half dozen other small families were there, too. We proceeded down the well marked and well maintained path, past a small falls, then steeply down several flights of wooden stairs, to a viewing platform beneath Purakaunui Falls.
Because it was a short hike I carried along all my camera gear. That meant I carried my whole camera bag including a pouch of lens filters plus my folding tripod. Thus after an "ussie" with my iPhone, above, I set up the tripod, screwed on a circular polarizer, and had fun with motion blur pictures of the falling water.
Setting up the camera on the tripod means I can also compose the picture, getting the settings the way I want them, and turn it over to someone else to press the shutter button. ...Meaning I can be in my own picture:
Hawk and I took turns snapping pictures of each other walking out on the rocks near the falls.
Our first hike of the day started easily enough. The trail for Purakaunui Falls seemed pretty remote, but once we were there it was well signed, and a half dozen other small families were there, too. We proceeded down the well marked and well maintained path, past a small falls, then steeply down several flights of wooden stairs, to a viewing platform beneath Purakaunui Falls.
Because it was a short hike I carried along all my camera gear. That meant I carried my whole camera bag including a pouch of lens filters plus my folding tripod. Thus after an "ussie" with my iPhone, above, I set up the tripod, screwed on a circular polarizer, and had fun with motion blur pictures of the falling water.
Setting up the camera on the tripod means I can also compose the picture, getting the settings the way I want them, and turn it over to someone else to press the shutter button. ...Meaning I can be in my own picture:
Hawk and I took turns snapping pictures of each other walking out on the rocks near the falls.
