Same Tree.

One of the very cool things in the snowy mountains is the way scenes change, even in the space of minutes blue sky can be replaced with whiteout clouds, makes for fun photography

South Rams Head

Pretty well done by the middle child, 10.5 kms of snow shoeing, overnight at -6 degrees and not much whinging 🙂

Lake Pukaki and Mount Aoraki

Mueller Lake Sunset.

Lake Alexandrina NZ – The wide view.

If you look to the bottom left there is a little road that leads over a hill with a tree – that’s the spot where the previous Lake Alexandrina shot was taken.

Lake Ruataniwha

Astro.

Astro Highway.

Mount Cook.
Apparently Gold Tier Dark skies here, almost guaranteed to be cloudy then…

if your wondering what that means..

“A Gold Tier dark sky refers to the highest level of night sky quality and darkness awarded by DarkSky International”

Twizel.

Lake Ruataniwha

Lindis Pass.

The wide view.

Lake Alexandrina NZ

Sunset on Wairepo Arm / Kellands Ponds

This shot is 21 vertical frames stitched together, its a rather large pano now and my poor computer had a coronary trying to edit it…18242 pixels wide to be exact.

Probably would have been easier just to swap to a short lens and fit it all in on one shot…

Layered.

Lindis Pass. Hills everywhere here…

Two Sides.

For scale you can see the car over on the left side on the other side of the river.

Tasman River.

Moke Lake Skeleton.

Hopkins Valley NZ, B-sides

What’s the current mood of a river valley?
……Depression.

ha, shoot me now 🙂