Exploration and photography with Des Paroz
Sakrisøy is one of the most picturesque villages in Norway’s Lofoten Islands. Most of the houses are painted in the distinctive yellow colour produced by a mix of ochre and cod liver oil, giving a real ‘pop’ to the vista. For me this image
Ancient rocks and tidal pools frame a snow-draped mountain at Uttakleiv Beach. This is a wild, harsh coastline shaped by the storms that constantly batter Norway’s Lofoten Islands. Perhaps the most famous feature of Uttakliev Beach is the Dragon’s Eye, a rock that sits at
Located on a small peninsula in Norway’s Lofoten Islands' Nusfjord lies an old cod liver oil factory ('trandamperiet'). The distinctive yellow paint gains its colour from the mix of ochre and cod liver oil. The colour yellow was often used to denote commercial premises. Nusfjord
We had a surprise opportunity in San Francisco in 2008 to see the US Navy's Blue Angels in a display over the city's iconic Bay, during the annual Fleet Week.
The red rorbuer (fisherman’s huts) of Hattvika Lodge make a stunning foreground for the beautiful scenery of the Lofoten Islands.
For the week leading up to the 2025 blood moon on 8 September, we were teased with a combination of weather forecasts predicting alternately clear skies and an overcast, wet night. As it turned out we experienced an overcast evening, followed by a mostly clear night as the moon rose,
In February and March 2025, we spent three wonderful weeks in Norway. Our goals were to visit a very different climate, landscape, and culture than our native Australia, to see some incredible scenery, and to maximise our chance of seeing the aurora borealis around the solar maximum. Amazing Landscapes One
There is a black sand beach in Iceland commonly known as Diamond Beach. Ice from the nearby Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon enters the sea through a narrow channel, before being washed back onto Diamond Beach. Every visit brings different ice sculptures. On our visit we
It’s almost seven years since I visited Wanaka in New Zealand, and photographed the famous Wanaka Tree at sunrise. Growing in Lake Wanaka, this Willow is a popular subject for sunrise photography, and has suffered over the years from human impact. There was a crowd there at sunrise
I love the saturated colours in rural Australia, especially before or after a storm. On this I came across this old railway crossing near Captain’s Flat and was quite taken by the rich colours and the looming weather. No train on the way Rural colours, rural moods A
A full moon begins its climb over Canberra, peeking out from the horizon behind the National Carillon. View this image in my Photo Gallery , on Vero , Flickr or on Glass . A full moon seems to haunt astro photographers, but when I try to get an image of the full moon,
My main form of Astrophotography is Nightscape photography, also known as Landscape Astrophotography. I have, however, been experimenting with some deep sky imagery, especially in the Australian summer months, when the Milky Way Core is out of sight, and constellations like Orion are in the sky. This image shows the
This image is a perspective of the western sky from near Tharwa, ACT, showing Crux (the Southern Cross), the Coalsack Nebula and the Carina Nebula. The Coalsack Nebula is the dark nebula behind Crux, and is the ‘head’ of the Celestial Emu in Indigenous astronomy legends. At the
A foggy morning provided some wonderful scenes at the pond in Mulligan's Flat. This image was created the morning after a good evening of astro shooting at the same spot. Mulligan’s Flat is a brilliant wildlife sanctuary with regular foggy mornings, and clear nights, as well
Strathnairn lies on the western edge of Canberra 🇦🇺, making it a great spot for astro photography in the mid-to-late Milky Way Core Season (Mar-Nov). In June 2024 I visited on a very cold, moonless early morning. Temperatures were -5C or so. The early morning after