{"id":47221,"date":"2025-09-27T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47221\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:33:07","slug":"bigger-picture-wide-awake-for-the-win-dunedin-photographer-wins-aurora-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/47221\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Picture: Wide awake for the win \u2013 Dunedin photographer wins aurora prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dunedin amateur photographer Kavan Chay spent 24 hours awake to capture this winning image of the Aurora Australis when it illuminated southern skies in May last year. <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe reds were a level of intensity I had never experienced,\u201d he said of the light show created by an intense geomagnetic
\n storm. Chay, who teaches at the University of Otago\u2019s medical school, positioned himself and his Nikon Z7 astro-modified camera at Tumbledown Bay, near Little River on Banks Peninsula, and shot \u201cpanorama after panorama\u201d.\n <\/p>\n

The image, Crown of Light, has just won the Aurorae category at the Royal Observatory Greenwich\u2019s annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not Chay\u2019s first nightscape to win global recognition: he was a winner in the 2024 Milky Way Photographer of the Year, too. Another New Zealander, Tom Rae, won the Skyscapes category in the Greenwich finals. To see all the winning works, visit rmg.co.uk. <\/a><\/p>\n

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