A Dialogue with Light by Tim Swallow

Photographer Tim Swallow displays on ten days exploring New Zealand’s Waiheke Island — the place mild and climate transfer in fixed dialogue, reminding us to see the world anew.

What started as a gear take a look at shortly became a meditation on transition, impermanence and sweetness in flux. From daybreak to nightfall, Tim chased the shifting skies of Waiheke, discovering how mild may form not simply photos, however perspective. In his phrases and pictures, the island grew to become each topic and muse.

The Shifting Light of Waiheke

She breathes in delicate shifts
mild unfurls softly throughout the hills,
by no means mounted, all the time in dialogue
with the sky’s ephemeral moods.
Rain descends in various cadences,
typically a fragile veil or a violent hail
typically a sudden cleaning rush,
altering the island’s colors as rainbows emerge,
reminding us that every little thing ultimately passes.
The timber stand as quiet witnesses,
their leaves catching fragments of sky and storm,
reflecting a spectrum that
isn’t the identical twice,
a residing interaction of shadow and illumination.
Here, change is fixed
from calm to chaos, refined unfolding
a gradual revelation of nature’s palette
that invitations the attention to linger,
to understand the wonder in transition.

Tim’s Gear

The Dolomite Sling 8L was the proper companion on Waiheke — with sufficient area for my Nikon Z8, a point-and-shoot and the Urth Glass Cleaning Kit. Its barely bigger capability made all of the distinction as I moved throughout the island.

Clipped to my aspect was the Urth Lens Filter Pouch, absolutely stocked with my go-to magnetic filters: ND1000, ND8 and Circular Polariser. The quick-swap design was a game-changer — no extra digging by way of pockets, simply easy entry as the sunshine shifted.

Acknowledgements

I wish to thank the group at Urth
The Fisher and White Family
Sophia Purdon & Red11 Models
Coco the Border Collie
Phil Crossland aka ‘Hairy Phil”
Flint Productions