{"id":775,"date":"2011-11-07T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeisaak.com\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2013-04-05T01:33:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T01:33:52","slug":"pancake-rocks-blowholes-%e2%80%93-punakaiki-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"Pancake Rocks &#038; Blowholes \u2013 Punakaiki, New Zealand."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our next destination was the Pancake Rocks and Blowholes at Dolomite Point near the town of Punakaiki, New Zealand. We left Cape Foulwind early enough so I would have plenty of time to explore, look for compositions, and find out where the sun was going to set.\u00a0 After a short walk we reached the main blowhole viewing point. I set up my camera, including my remote cable release, and waited for a few minutes for an ocean swell. My timing was way off on the first spray. But I was ready for the next one. I captured this photo below at the height of the eruption. I was hoping for a lot more height, but the ocean didn&#8217;t want to cooperate with me that afternoon. Luckily, the swells were supposed to get bigger near sunset. I took a few more shots, and then explored the area a little more. I decided to crop the image slightly, as I think a 1:2 aspect ratio works a little better.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_776\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Blowhole-at-Punakaiki.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-776\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-776   \" title=\"Blowhole at Punakaiki\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/gallery-images\/_dsc8506.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cBlowhole at Punakaiki\u201d Punakaiki, New Zealand.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Buy the print <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/photo\/image-506a0faa9f33d\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We spent the rest of the afternoon caving and feeding ourselves, along with the wekas hanging out at our campervan. Before I knew it, the sun was starting to get low on the horizon so we headed back to the viewpoint. I had picked my composition earlier in the day, as I used\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/photoephemeris.com\/\">&#8220;The Photographer&#8217;s Ephemeris&#8221;<\/a> again to find out where the position of the sun would be as it hit the horizon. I took a few test shots, and then waited for a wave to come crashing in. Thankfully, the forecast was right and we were treated to some slightly larger sprays and some beautiful evening light.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_778\" style=\"width: 578px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeisaak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Pancake-Rocks-Sunset.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-778\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-778 \" title=\"Pancake Rocks Sunset\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/gallery-images\/pancake-rocks-sunset.jpg\" width=\"568\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Pancake Rocks Sunset&#8221; Punakaiki, New Zealand.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Buy the print <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/photo\/image-506a0f23e602d\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next destination was the Pancake Rocks and Blowholes at Dolomite Point near the town of Punakaiki, New Zealand. We left Cape Foulwind early enough so I would have plenty of time to explore, look for compositions, and find out where the sun was going to set.\u00a0 After a short walk we reached the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139],"tags":[142,235,236,24,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikeisaak.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}