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Sunset At Piha Beach

leyvaine davids — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:28:10 +0000

This photo captures a dramatic coast of the beautiful Piha Beach.Painting the skies with shades of orange, grey, and dark blue.With waves hitting rugged this coastline and soaring above the cliffs .Enjoying this untamed natural beauty.

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West Coast

Mirjam van Sabben — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:00:14 +0000

I took this photo one winter’s afternoon from the Mercer Bay Loop track
lookout, overlooking Mercer Bay, Karekare, and the outer edges of
Whatipu Beach in the far distance. The cliffs in the two headlands in
the foreground are the tallest in Auckland at 60m (200ft) and there are
no guardrails along most of the edges so it can definitely be a bit of a
headspin when you dangle your feet over the edge and lean over to look
down at the water crashing against the rocks below.

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Raetahinga Point Circumpolar Star Trail

Mirjam van Sabben — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 10:15:18 +0000

This is a composite image consisting of a 10 minute foreground exposure
followed by hundreds of 30 second exposures for the sky blended in
photoshop to reveal the movement of the stars over the course of 3
hours. When facing south, such as in this shot, all stars travel in a
circle around a central point (in the Southern Hemisphere this is within
the Southern Cross constellation). This kind of star trail is called a
circumpolar star trail. Raetahinga Point is on the cliff tops above
O’Neils beach and is part of the Hillary Trail. From this point you can
look out over O’Neils beach and Bethels beach beyond it, as in this
photo, and on the other side you get a view out toward Muriwai Beach.
The three hour in-the-dark hike was worth this result.

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Scorched Forest at Mercer Bay

Mirjam van Sabben — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:53:14 +0000

I took this photo overlooking a stretch of West Auckland coastline
consisting of Piha, Whites Beach, Anawhata, Wigmore Bay, Bethells Beach,
O’Neils Beach, and Muriwai beach, in that order, from the Mercer Bay
Loop Track by a grove of trees that had been burned by a wildfire.

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