Light Trails

 My latest shoot produced six images that interest me in an area I'd like to continue exploring.

I woke up Wednesday morning at 4.30 and drove down to Makara Beach with the dog. Together in the dark we clambered around the beach and up a  hill, woke up a sleeping goat, and came to a good spot that looks out over the cook straight.

I started by capturing images of stars but soon turned my attention to moving objects with lights. i.e. ships and planes.

Two ships in the cook straight 120 seconds

Ship in the cook straight 120 seconds

Early morning plane 22 seconds

early morning plane 40 seconds

early morning plane 23 seconds

early morning plane 60 seconds

The trails produced by ships and planes interest me a great deal. I would like to do more plane long exposure photography. I would like to be able to work out information regarding the trails of planes. I particularly like the image with the red dashed line. With some more research I could make calculations as to how fast the plane might have been travelling.

I have done some research into long exposure photography and will continue to research and practice it.