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26 ARTLINK-with Ratna Venkat<br />
<strong>April</strong> <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2016</strong><br />
Mesmerising Morning at Cape Reinga<br />
Ashok Kochhar<br />
kochhara55@gmail.com<br />
There are very few<br />
countries as beautiful as<br />
New Zealand.<br />
We all know this place<br />
is a sheer heaven on Earth.<br />
The mornings and evening<br />
are specially worth witnessing.<br />
Every sunrise and sunset tells a<br />
story of a lifetime and it seems<br />
that Nature is showing its<br />
majestic colour palette on the<br />
canvas of sky.<br />
People travel thousands<br />
of kilometers to witness this<br />
amazing spectacular.<br />
I am no exception.<br />
Just by witnessing the play<br />
of Sun God, one goes into a<br />
trance effortlessly. The energy of<br />
these times in the remote areas<br />
is almost tangible and spell<br />
bounding.<br />
At these times one becomes<br />
speechless seeing the winds<br />
carrying the mist from one<br />
direction to other between the<br />
shallow valleys.<br />
Exaggerated Mood<br />
The dramatic formation of the<br />
landscape exaggerates its mood.<br />
Just a sight for few moments<br />
is enough to add a sense of<br />
celebration to your day. And if<br />
one captures it on camera than<br />
you have stored it for eternity.<br />
I feel blessed.<br />
For the last six weeks, I was<br />
out to the various locations<br />
across the North Island.<br />
We captured sunsets and<br />
sunrises across some of the<br />
most loved destinations, i.e.<br />
Coromandel, Taupo, Rotorua<br />
and Cape Reinga.<br />
As a photographer, you intend<br />
to leave your place of stay at<br />
least 30 minutes before the sun<br />
rises. And every morning was<br />
unique;seeming as if it was<br />
specially crafted for us. The<br />
energy, visual appearance made<br />
us feel that God left all His jobs<br />
to paint these landscapes with<br />
mist and fog and allowed winds<br />
to blow them to recreate various<br />
shapes. I know He was playing<br />
His ‘Game of Perfection.’<br />
Game of Destiny<br />
We stayed on the seaside<br />
campsite at Cape Reinga. We<br />
started habitually half an hour<br />
before sunrise. As per the plan,<br />
we wanted to reach first point<br />
of Ninety-Mile Beach early. But<br />
destiny always plays silently.<br />
We might have travelled eight<br />
kilometers from the camping<br />
site; the beautiful visual left us<br />
spellbound. At a far distance,<br />
the drama of fog against<br />
beautiful waste landscape<br />
started unveiling itself.<br />
We captured the evolving<br />
scenario on our cameras for<br />
more than an hour without<br />
talking at all.<br />
Nature forced us to witness<br />
its wonders and through us to<br />
be seen by as many as possible.<br />
Surprisingly,on a few mornings,<br />
we went off track,and discovered<br />
the hidden treasures of<br />
Nature, waiting to be explored.<br />
The images here were presented<br />
to me by the Almighty.<br />
I call it ‘An Eternal Experience.’<br />
All in God’s Day<br />
From here to Eternity<br />
The hidden treasures of Northland<br />
Day meets Night at Twilight<br />
Mist and fog paint a new landscape<br />
No footprints on these sands<br />
Lone dwelling on top- The Cape Reinga Lighthouse<br />
Nature at the Northern tip<br />
The confluence of land and sea
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