Day 7 / Auckland at Night

Lights of night city always had a strange impact on me. I’m almost hypnotised every time I see shambling reflection of a night city about the same way as when I look at fire ore unpredictable game of waves. Auckland at night is beautiful as much as any other city on our planet but unlike any other city it is easy accessible to take nice night photo. All I need to do, just get up take my camera ant drive across Auckland Harbour Bridge to find perfect spot. I wasn’t sure which photo to place there, vivid colour shot or just classy and simple black and white. The last variant obviously won.

Day 5 / Sydney, Underground Rail

To be honest Sydney urban rail system goes underground only in central city. And it is pretty busy place. But at five in the morning we were quite lucky to be there practically alone. Despite to be very fast and convenient way to travel around the city, Sydney Metro is very photogenic. I like dynamic lights and constantly changeable picture on trains and stations. I like to watch people there, even if there are very few of them. This fellow on the photo was probably as lost as we were, but his presence make entire scene “not sad and depressing”. And I was lucky to catch a bench on other side of the station. Thank you camera, we did well!..

Day 4 / Sydney Harbor Bridge at night

For same Sydney associates with harbour, for some with beautiful sky line, for most of people who has been there with unbelievably attractive Opera House. But for me Sydney always will be the city of the Bridge. This amazing structure makes the city. It is so incredibly huge and elegant at the same time you can’t believe it! Like any other masterpiece of human genius, Harbour Bridge is not getting older or boring with years passing by. Age only adds some kind of historic charm to it, makes it not only outstanding piece of engineering, but also some sort of axis which holds entire spin of Australian history. The Bridge is gorgeous regardless of the season or time of the day. If you’ll be in Sydney one day, go and see it and it will remain with you forever...

Day 2 / Cook Strait

Southern Ocean is probably most hostile and unfriendly basin of water on our planet. Further south you go, more wind, rain waves and other nice stuff like that you can expect. Cook Strait is no exception. This narrow extent of water lies between North and South islands of New Zealand. Some people say it is possible to see blue sky and calm water down there. Let’s pretend we believe them. When we were about to cross Cook Strait in our way to South island this summer, I’ve found an interesting information in the net. Sometimes they cease ferries between Wellington and Picton, but only if waves are higher than 14 meters!.. That day ferry was on, but sea was rough enough to let us see the entire power of Southern ocean.