Steve Paxton's photos

A very small pool of water after the rain on the top of the rock.

The winter Bow at almost its highest an hour later it was directly above. A two Row Manual panorama.

First ever try of some thing just a little out of the BOX. Enjoy, the sun light was starting to show in the upper atmosphere.. for those out there interested 50MM F1.8 lens set @ F2.2 ISO 1250 and 10SEC shot time.

50mm F1.8 @ F2.2 You can see the rising sun light effecting the photo

Milky way sat low with a 35% moon early morning. A trial @25 sec But its back to 22 sec next time. moon light -14mm F2.8 @ F4 ISO 1250 WB normal day setting rather than 4000K. enjoy the cold morning and a few shots from the place.

Milky way above the batch on the way down By moon light............... Exif data ISO 1000 F3.5 34 seconds. 14mm F2.8

This is a shot for those who wish to learn My first even night panorama 3 horizontals, Moon in the middle of frame lens flare and lens vignetting , The 500 rule is not quite correct shots at 34 seconds each but i am at 20 sec these days. I have never thought to go back and look at this set of shot PTGui handled it perfectly nothing else could. milky way is in shot 1 , Magellanic Cloud to the very right of shot Bright source at the right end is Tauranga. Enjoy a place i will never get back to Beach house is sold.

Its not what you think it is www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_moths/LeafCaseMoth.htm

A shot for my daughter in hospital cant touch her cant get close to her. the evils of Golden Staph but nature wins out............. a flower for her Room. please enjoy this as large as you can

Do you know what its like you open the door to leave home to go to work and find this.......... after weeks of nothing but cloudless skies.

Chinese Wisteria start of spring Part of my garden that is a blaze of colour and perfume

While we stood here the huge thumps of trees falling over was all around.

Under the crazy section but interesting.

Once the very small moon went down we got this.Please view it on Black to get the most out of it

One of the old Colonial home out in wheat field. note the only part of the roof is still up there all the rest has gone.

This is the left overs for the burn off next to the road. I was reduced to 5km and hour and i could only see the white line on the side of the road and the GPS smoke blocked out the lights even on low beam. got home smelling like smoked Cod

A night Dogged by Light Clouds and bush fire smoke. What happens when you find you did not pack the night lens what you thought was the lens turned out to be 50mm F1.8..... 16-35mm F4 was in my bag never used it as a night lens first look.