Great Alpine Highway
The lovely thing about driving around in New Zealand is that you can cover a lot of the country in fairly good time. This shot was taken towards the end of my trip there in 2009. I had spent the previous couple of days on the West Coast in the little township outside the Franz-Joseph [...]
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The Tasman Trail
My memories of this image are somewhat bittersweet – this was shot on the Tasman trail at Mount Cook National Park a few September’s ago. Now, I really had done absolutely no planning when I travelled to New Zealand in 2009. I pretty much rocked up with cameras in a backpack (at the time, a [...]
Rakaia Gorge and the Cantebury Plains
Located in the Cantebury Plains, the Rakaia Gorge has been carved by the Rakaia River which origins from the melting ice caps of Mt. Sommers. The Gorge itself comes to a dramatic opening at this point on the Cantebury Plains where one can see the braided rivers that course through its floor and provide a [...]
A meal fit for a king
There are several things that make the highlight of a day. After a four hour train ride through the Southern Alps from Christchurch to Greymouth, when you arrive there at lunch time, you wonder what might be good for lunch. After looking at the menu, I settled for the staple of Bangers and Mash on [...]
Cathedral Square
Churches invariabley offer a special appear to a photographer, but even more so when there is a good sky to add effect. Pictured above at the geographical centre and heart of Christchurch, New Zealand, is the city’s Anglican cathedral. The square was originally intended to be called Ridley Square, after the Protestant martyr Nicholas Ridley, [...]
Lake Tekapo
This is an old favourite among my friends and colleagues. The still waters of Lake Tekapo in New Zealand are a sight to behold. On a calm day, the waters are so still that the surface literally forms a mirror to reflect the peaks of the Southern Alps to the west. I took this shot [...]
Mt. Somers
The Southern Alps in New Zealand offer spectacles from the ground up, as much as they do from the skies. This shot was taken from a small bridge that crossed one of the many braided rivers that flow across the plains that a carved up by glacial run-off. In the background are the peaks of [...]
Along the Great Alpine Highway
Sometimes life’s best moments can be summed up when riding a vehicle down a lonely road with some of the most breathtaking scenery all around you. That is what a trip to New Zealand will instill in you… you’ll pass a car every 5 minutes, but its mostly an open road with very little traffic [...]
Fiordlands Cascades
I still cannot stop raving about New Zealand. It has been a good nine months since I returned from the land of the Great White Cloud. And as much as I love Australia, Victoira, and Melbourne, there are some things that our Trans-Tasman neighbours have that are just so pristinely beautiful, they have to be [...]
The Plains outside Mount Cook
Peter Jackson had it good when he filmed Lord of the Rings. One of the locations that he used was Mount Cook National Park. This is the approach along the plains which are threaded by braided rivers fed by the glacial run-off from the Tasman Glacier that empties into the azure blue waters of Lake [...]
Dream backyard
What would be your dream backyard? How you you like to be able to wake up every morning to see something like this? These homes at Wanaka wake up every morning to Mt. Aspiring in the West which overlooks Lake Wanaka fed by its glacial run-off. What would you like to wake up to every [...]
Landsbrough River
Heading across the South Island, I started off from Wanaka and began driving towards Franz Josef as multiple weather systems passed over me. As I drove, I came across a section of what was called the Landsbrough River… which looked more like a stream than a river, but with plenty of road signs warning of [...]
Crown Ranges revisited
This one might look a little familiar. A couple of weeks ago, I posted my rendition of this location at sunset; here is one where the sun is high. I had spent 4 days in New Zealand, and this was after my second night in Queenstown. I drove up the scenic route, braving the twisting [...]
Lindis Pass, NZ
Back to another picture from New Zealand. Lindis Pass lies between Mount Cook and Queenstown and is part of the Southern Alps mountain system. This particular image was capture one early morning as I drove up to Mount Cook from Queenstown. On one of these pristine mornings, the first set of peaks appeared inviting to [...]
Crown Ranges at Sunset
I made the mistake of choosing to drive from Christchurch to Queenstown in a single day. Never attempt to do this. It takes 10 hours and you will miss alot of the magnificent scenery that New Zealand’s South Island has to offer… such as the Crown Ranges pictured above. As idyllic as this location appears [...]
Still waters run deep
This one if a favourite among several of my friends. After having taken a helicopter flight bright and early over the Southern Alps, I was driving past the lakes of the West Coast outside Franz Josef and came across Lake Maripouka on a day when there was no wind, the water was dead calm, the [...]
