For those who can’t make the workshops we will be running a photographic scavenger hunt around the area.
Opening night speaker We have an awesome opening night speaker who we are sure many of you will know. Mark Gee is a Wellington astro-photographer who now has a global following. His Wellington workshops on the south coast are now so popular that traffic plans have to be put in place to accommodate them. Two years ago he had 400 people attend, and last year it was over a thousand.
We end in the dark Given that our speaker is all about photography in dark places, we conclude the evening with three separate events (all of which will require a camera and tripod). Around the venue we will arrange light painting sessions, and Toya Heatley APSNZ will be running the LED & Crystal sessions that were so popular at our Central Regional. These will take place regardless of the conditions. If Mother Nature obliges, we will also take a small number of keen people to the dark Wainuiomat coastline to put into practice what you have just learned in Mark’s talk. We have already checked - the moon is in the right quarter and the Milky Way will be on the rise, so it should be a great night. Mark will be on hand to help out as well.
Milky Way over the Wainuiomata coast by Paul Whitham LPSNZ
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