Up the River

Prior to visiting Motat with work on Friday, I had some lunch at Western Springs – the large freshwater springs next to the venue. Once upon a time Western Springs was the primary water source for much of Auckland (Like the Pumphouse on the North Shore I have written about). Now days it makes a popular place for a walk, run or to have a picnic and feed the ducks.

Surrounding part of the springs is a little river where the water flows. Armed with my Sony Nex 5N and 210mm lens I got as central to and low as I could and shot into the distance.

In post processing using Gimp I slightly cropped and straightened, added a cross-processed filter, pushed the contrast a notch and desaturated by several points.

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2 responses to “Up the River”

  1. Bunny Eats Design Avatar

    Beautiful. Hard to imagine this is so close to the city.

    1. hawkeyx Avatar

      Its always nice to find a little escape from the town, within the town. Would be even nicer if we had more!

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