NZPhotographer Issue 34, August 2020
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Failures – this is the lucky secret ingredient that you<br />
can’t really plan for. Sometimes when you get up<br />
early for that sunrise or hike up that mountain for<br />
sunset the clouds look great but the light just… dies.<br />
You are left with nothing but broken dreams. Don’t<br />
despair when this happens because the lack of colour<br />
doesn’t matter if you have a really nice composition<br />
and some good high clouds. If you are a keen<br />
landscape photographer you will probably have had<br />
lots of shoots that didn’t come off as planned and<br />
images that you never bothered processing. Go back<br />
and take a look. Just maybe you got lucky.<br />
The image of Mt Taranaki from the Pouakai tarns<br />
was taken one evening. There was a gorgeous sky<br />
and it was building to quite a spectacular sunset.<br />
Unfortunately, just as the action was hotting up, the<br />
sun dropped below a cloud bank on the horizon and<br />
never reappeared. I was gutted. It’s a decent hike<br />
up to the tarns and a long way from Wellington for a<br />
return visit. However, luckily for me, the clouds in the<br />
sky had excellent form and this combined really well<br />
with the mountain and the reflection to make a very<br />
satisfying black and white image. The colour version<br />
was not even a keeper.<br />
So that’s a wrap. Now it’s your turn to go out and<br />
shoot some black and white landscapes. No more<br />
excuses and don’t be a slave to the like button!<br />
Spencer Clubb is a a keen landscape photographer currently living in<br />
Edinburgh, UK. He has been taking photography more seriously over<br />
the last 10 years, initially while living in New Zealand, but more recently<br />
in Scotland. He loves spending time in the mountains, hiking, camping,<br />
and photographing while enjoying the wonderful scenery.<br />
www.spencerclubb.net<br />
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