Box of Light is made possible thanks to these visionaries:
I'm currently working on an amazing film project that I can't yet share with you, other than to say that it has had me running around our coastline and hinterland looking for all sorts of moments. In some ways it feels a lot like harvest season – chasing the best light and conditions to capture certain flora and fauna looking its best and really getting into the essence of the story.
I stumbled across friend and artist Kirstin Ferguson at one point up on Princes Street in between shoots. My shirt was grubby and I felt like I had a thin layer of sweat, dust and leaf litter all over me. I had been crawling around earlier that morning over rocks and through gorse and eventually ended up in a field of bracken that extended for hundreds of metres in every direction.
She asked what wonderful coastal scene I had been chasing – expecting giant waves or a perfect seascape of some kind. But no. It was bracken.
She laughed and approvingly confessed to wanting to see how I captured that. She completely got it. Yes the waves and mega fauna along or beaches are amazing and I dream about them most nights, but to actually go and see and film a sea of bracken gave me an equally exciting buzz.
I've always said that we are spoilt in Dunedin for our seascapes and surf spots, but equally so for the environments we have on our doorstep. One moment I am high on a mountain scrambling in the darkness and the next I am scouring our coastline for bracken and ti kouka and pikao ... all threads to an intricatelly woven story.
Here's a few glimpses of how my week went ... enjoy.
See you at the beach ... Derek
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Box of Light is made possible thanks to these visionaries: