The Coromandel - Tairua River

A couple of photos of the Tairua river near its mouth.

Karangahake Gorge

Karangahake Gorge is a popular tourist destination on State Highway 2, where the road goes through Kaimai-Mamaku ranges between Paeroa on Hauraki plains and Waihi in Bay of Plenty. Besides amazing views this place features old gold mines, ruins of concentrating mills and almost 1 km metres long train tunnel. The photo above shows a view from the old railway bridge near the tunnel entrance to State Highway 2, the river and mount Karangahake (about 550 m) at the background.



This HDR image shows the narrowest point of Karangahake Gorge. The image was heavily processed as the original scene had very high contrast.

Marokopa Waterfall

I took this photo a year ago. Today I tried to improve it using some technique adopted from HDRI processing. The main goal was to reduce high overall contrast without increase of brightness and keeping details of falling water.

Waterfall at Tongariro National Park

Karangahake Gorge

A view from old gold-mining facilities at Karangahake to State Highway 2 between Paeroa and Waihi.



The bridge on the tourist track. This picture was taken from the entrance of one gold mine.

A Mermaid

Flowers in the stream

Tranquility