Beautiful.
--- On Sun, 6/9/13, Al Malin <amalin@mac.com> wrote:
> From: Al Malin <amalin@mac.com>
> Subject: [Healeys] NZ Full Moon Silhouettes
> To: healeys@autox.team.net
> Date: Sunday, June 9, 2013, 2:00 PM
> I received the following with a video
> link. If our NZ members haven't seen
> this already I thought they might enjoy this. --- Al Malin,
> Tricarb
>
>
> A photographer captured what is one of the most remarkable
> things I have ever
> seen filmed. It is a 3 minute video clip of the full
> moon rising over
> Wellington NZ. It was shot on a calm summer evening, as
> people gathered on the
> Mt. Victoria Lookout point to watch the moon rise.
>
> The little ripples on the edge of the moon are due to
> density bubbles in the
> atmosphere, and we're looking through a lot of it at this
> low elevation angle.
> You'll notice that the silhouettes of the people are pretty
> sharp, since there
> is a lot less atmosphere from the camera to them than it is
> from the camera
> out to the moon.
>
> This stunning video is one single real-time shot, with no
> manipulation
> whatsoever. The camera was placed on a hillside over 2
> kilometers from the
> Lookout point, and was shot with the equivalent of a 1300 mm
> lens.
> The amount of planning, trial and error, and luck that went
> into this are mind
> blowing. He has been trying to capture this for over a year
> with many failed
> attempts. But 2 nights ago it seems everything was on his
> side, and it all
> came together in a way even he couldn't have hoped.
>
> I honestly can't say enough good things about this video -
> from the magnitude
> of the visuals, to the intimate stories playing out with the
> people, to the
> sheer humbling nature of seeing the awe-inspiring reality of
> this giant rock
> in the sky that we so often don't stop to appreciate.
>
> One thing I encourage you to do is watch this on the biggest
> screen you have.
>
> https://vimeo.com/58385453 (sound on)
>
>
>
> On Jun 9, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Tom Felts <tomfelts@windstream.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Where in NZ do you live? If near Wellington, to
> get to the beach you have
> to climb over some of the most beautiful mountains on the
> smallest, most
> curvey road I've been on in a while, past the Manuka
> bushes----------georgous
> country---and the Healey isn't to bad either!:)
> >
> >
> > ---- Andrew Thorp <bce257@yahoo.co.nz>
> wrote:
> >
> > =============
> > After three years I am nearing the end of the first
> phase of rebuilding BN4
> O
> > 40559 which is assembling everything to driving
> condition to iron out the
> > inevitable bugs before a full stripdown for final
> paint.
> >
> > We took a drive to
> > the beach last Sunday
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