Rare View Photography

Rare View Photography Rare View provides Photographic Training and experiences through workshops and tours. I also create Time Lapse videos for production and advertising companies.

Finally getting a rare moment to review some of my USA images from last February. Dawn at the Grand Canyon. I wasn't exp...
11/01/2025

Finally getting a rare moment to review some of my USA images from last February. Dawn at the Grand Canyon. I wasn't expecting snow and ice but it certainly added to the scenery.

📷️Sony Alpha 7Rm5
👀Sony FE 24-70
⏱️ 1/3 sec
🔘 F 11
🎞️ISO 100

📷️Sony Alpha 7Rm5
👀Sony FE 14mm F1.8GM
⏱️ 2 secs
🔘 F 2.8
🎞️ISO 12800

The 1st Swing Bridge on the Ho**er Lake track, Mt Cook. Captured during my recent New Zealand tour. It was a bit of a sc...
06/11/2024

The 1st Swing Bridge on the Ho**er Lake track, Mt Cook. Captured during my recent New Zealand tour. It was a bit of a scramble down the rocks to sit in the middle of well flowing Glacier stream for a few hours.

The image is a blue hour/night astro blend which means you can't move the camera for an hour while waiting for the stars to come out. Luckily the rock was actually very comfortable and it was a lifetime memory lying there looking at the massive Mt Cook at the end of the stream.

The fun bit was trying to scramble out of the stream in the dark.

Sony A7Rm5, 20mm F1.8 lens.

Taken during a weekend getaway with fellow photography friends at Lake Tyrrell about a month ago.It was a perfect night ...
29/10/2024

Taken during a weekend getaway with fellow photography friends at Lake Tyrrell about a month ago.

It was a perfect night for astro except for my 1 hour struggle with my Polaris (it won and I gave up) and the dozens of Chinese tourists running around with boomboxes and phone cameras.

But eventually we prevailed and got our shots.

It's taken me a while to post because I've been running my New Zealand Photo Tour for the last few weeks. It was seriously awesome but I'll save that for later. 😊

City Walk
06/10/2024

City Walk

City Walk.
05/10/2024

City Walk.

Another from my City Walk.Floating bowl chimes. As the water pushes them around, they bump into each other and ring like...
04/10/2024

Another from my City Walk.

Floating bowl chimes. As the water pushes them around, they bump into each other and ring like a chime. Very soothing 😌

Due to a temporary change at work for the last few months, I've spent half my life working in the city. I've learnt a wh...
04/10/2024

Due to a temporary change at work for the last few months, I've spent half my life working in the city. I've learnt a whole new hatred of public transport and for those who do it every day, I commend your patience and tolerance.

In theory, my last day doing this was on Wednesday 2/10 and I finished early. With a few hours free and with camera in hand I visited some of the intriguing places I have been passing in the tram. This is the first of a few over the next few posts. I choose to do mostly B&W, it just seemed to work better for the scene.

📷️Sony Alpha 7Rm5
👀Sony 24-70GM2
⏱️ 1/500 secs
🔘 F 4.5
🎞️ISO 100

A few photos of the family and the city. Why this random group of images? Because I took them using my restored 1933 Zei...
02/10/2024

A few photos of the family and the city. Why this random group of images? Because I took them using my restored 1933 Zeiss Ikon medium format film camera!

I picked it up at an auction about 2 years ago purely as a shelf ornament but about a month ago decided to clean and lubricate it and see if it works.

Well, it does. Fantastically well in fact. Great clear images despite being 100% manual. And I seriously mean manual. Needs a light meter to set exposure, I literally have to pace out the distance to my subject to set focus, no in camera indication.

The downside is every time I flick the tiny shutter it costs $7 and there are only 8 photos per roll of film.

But it does force me to really think through each shot and it feels very special to use a camera that is 90 years old.

Seems to be a week for competition results. Didn't do as well this time but given panorama's are not my specialty, no gr...
01/10/2024

Seems to be a week for competition results. Didn't do as well this time but given panorama's are not my specialty, no great surprise. Managed to score a bronze for this fellow so still happy 😊.

Lake Tekapo, New Zealand.

Had a great weekend up at Lake Tyrrell with a bunch of astro photographer friends, mostly previous guests from a worksho...
30/09/2024

Had a great weekend up at Lake Tyrrell with a bunch of astro photographer friends, mostly previous guests from a workshop or tour. I still like to keep in touch and occasionally organise a catchup event.

Unfortunately on this Saturday night (28/9/24), the clouds had rolled in. Thankfully we could still make the most of an awesome location. Thanks gang!

Each image is an 18 shot panorama.

📷️Sony Alpha 7Rm5
👀Sony FE 20mm F1.8
⏱️ 10 secs
🔘 F2
🎞️ISO 4000

In my other bit of good news, I was also awarded a Top 25, 2 silvers and 2 bronze Medals in the recent Astrophotography ...
25/09/2024

In my other bit of good news, I was also awarded a Top 25, 2 silvers and 2 bronze Medals in the recent Astrophotography Prize competition.

I very happy to have a top 25 two years in a row now.

Having a great week on the competition front. I received 3 Honourable Mentions from the International Photography Awards...
21/09/2024

Having a great week on the competition front. I received 3 Honourable Mentions from the International Photography Awards New York.

This comp is run by the Lucie Foundation which is a charitable organisation whose three-tiered mission is to honour master photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent, and promote the appreciation of photography worldwide.

“Lucie” is derived from the Latin word “lux,” meaning “light,” acknowledging the role that light plays in photography.

The Annual Awards invite worldwide Professional, Amateur and Student photographers to submit entries in a multitude of categories which are then judged by over 80 editors, art directors, curators and buyers.

This is the 1st year I have entered and I confess I was initially a little disappointed at only receiving a few Honourable Mentions. Don't misunderstand, HM's are still a good result but most competitions award 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Top 10 (or Gold), Top 50 (Silver) Top 100-200 (Bronze) and then HM's. But when I checked out the overall results, I suddenly realised they award 1st, 2nd, 3rd and then about 20 to 40 HM's and that's it!

I received 2 Honourable Mentions out of the 33 awarded for the "Nature Astrophotography" category and 1 Honourable Mention out of the 39 awarded in the "Nature Landscape" category.

So now I'm ecstatic at the results 😁 given this a highly regarded international competition with an awards dinner in New York (but only for place winners 😞)

I then got some more good news but that is for another post. 🙂

I've been a little quiet on social media lately because I've been putting together my 2025 New Zealand Tour in the backg...
07/09/2024

I've been a little quiet on social media lately because I've been putting together my 2025 New Zealand Tour in the background.

Well .....IT'S HERE!

My 10 day Mountains and Astro Tour is being co-hosted with Richard Tatti Nightscape Images as we travel the South Island capturing stunning landscape and breathtaking astro images. Your own room every night, Breakfast and Dinner, Milford Sound and Te Anau Glow Worm Cave Cruises and an optional private Glacier Flight where you'll land on the glacier for almost an hour of photography.

Details at https://rareview.photography/new-zealand-photography-tour-2025/

Check it out as my Tasmania tour filled in just 2 days and my 2024 New Zealand tour in just 2 weeks.

On our Tassi Tour in April, our 2nd night at Cradle Mountain was heavy cloud and intermittent rain. So what do you do wh...
17/08/2024

On our Tassi Tour in April, our 2nd night at Cradle Mountain was heavy cloud and intermittent rain. So what do you do when the weather is crap? Pinky decided to have some fun 😁

Another sneaky photo during a workshop. Pylonga and Tooborac are littered with huge granite boulders lying everywhere wh...
09/08/2024

Another sneaky photo during a workshop. Pylonga and Tooborac are littered with huge granite boulders lying everywhere which makes for an interesting landscape and foreground.
This is a tracked sky using the new MSM Nomad blended with the foreground boulders. I was also using my new Newer LED light stick which gave more control over where the light fell.

Sony A7m3 with 20mm F1.8G. 1min tracked sky.

I found this location by accident as I was driving to my intended destination (Never got there). It's hard to find windm...
01/08/2024

I found this location by accident as I was driving to my intended destination (Never got there). It's hard to find windmills around here these days. This one was located on the property of an artist who was only to happy to give me permission.

The sky is a 16 tracked image panorama using my Benro Polaris which worked perfectly that night. The foreground is a 7 image panorama all using my Sony A7Rm5 and Sony 20mm G lens.

https://rareview.photography/astro-photography-workshops/

While staying at beautiful Te Anau last year, I discovered this great little jetty just on the edge of town. Another you...
27/07/2024

While staying at beautiful Te Anau last year, I discovered this great little jetty just on the edge of town.

Another younger and more adventurous photographer was also there and got me to fire off his camera as he ran and jumped off the end into the bitingly cold water.

I'll stick with my warm pretty sunset thank you. 😊

📷 Sony Alpha 7Rm5
👀 Sony 24-70mm GM
⏱️ 6 sec
🔘 F14
🎞️ ISO 100

I sneaked in a few shots from my last training workshop. This is a well proven location I have taken students to many ti...
17/07/2024

I sneaked in a few shots from my last training workshop. This is a well proven location I have taken students to many times. It was a cold foggy night and I leant out all my lens heaters but it was still a challenging evening. Thankfully the fog completely surrounded us but rarely affected us so a great night with clear skies.

If you would like to learn how to do this, visit my website https://rareview.photography/astro-photography-workshops/

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Although I sound a bit glum, I did enjoy my time at Death Valley, but it certainly didn't go to plan. A real mix of excitement and disappointment.

Our final day in New Zealand.

A long but great day at Milford Sound. The road in is spectacular and once you get there, even better. The sunset turned into a bit of a fizzer but the rest was great. We were planning on staying for some astro until a guy told us the road out was now closed due maintenance! We hi-tailed it out of there just in case and it turned out the guy was full of sh#t. We stopped on the Home side of the tunnel and got a moon over the snow covered valley so all was not lost. Glow Worm Caves boat cruise this morning and a long drive to Kaka Point.

New Zealand Winter Explorer Tour Www.rareview.photography

Bit of an adventure last night to Hooker Lake.

Man, it's cold over here! Www.rareview.photography

Day -1 continued

Day -1

And naturally it wouldn't be complete without the Time-lapse video. Wanaka Tree at dawn.

I've put together a short collection of photos and Timelapse from my recent Great Ocean Rd trip in December 21 with the Sony Alpha Group. Great trip, got to try a heap of new Sony cameras and lenses and ended up with a 100-400GM under the Chrissie tree 🎄. Turn up the sound, enjoy and have a great Christmas.

Erskin Falls, Lorne
Erskin Falls, Lorne

The sign said 240m from the car park. It didn't mention that was vertically!!!! Haven't seen that many stairs for a while and when you're lugging 25kg of time lapse gear and cameras, well, let's just say there were a few rest stops on the way back up. Otherwise it is a stunning waterfall in full flow at the moment. Remember to check out my 2022 Astro Photography workshops and Tasmania East Coast and Lakes Tour at www.rareview.photography

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