Moke Lake Skeleton.

Hopkins Valley NZ, B-sides

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

ha, shoot me now 🙂

The Motions of Life.

This is another on of those places you could just throw your drone at the scene and you will get something decent.

I took a bunch of shots here and they looked pretty good on the phone screen as I was flying over, but its really hard to get a good sense of the composition etc on such a small screen, anyways I do like this one and it reminded me of the cool scenes of Lake Eyre in Oz.

Hopkins Valley NZ, this is on the mouth of the river.

Hopkins Valley View. NZ.

Thats Mount Glenmary on the right, if you follow the valley up that on the right hand side you will eventually get to mount Sealy which I think is pretty much a dead end, but over that and you back to Mount Cook. Looks easy on the map 🙂

Head to the left and your following the Hopkins River up to another dead end, probably some mad hiking trails over these spots tho.

Catch me if you can.

Hopkins Valley, NZ

The world of Moke.

Lake Moke NZ

Moke Lake Reflections.

I wonder if this lake has anything to do with Mini Mokes …

Stepping stones

3 minutes at Mount Ohau

Loch Cameron, New Zealand

I’m keen to know who the hell Cameron is and why he’s got a pond named after him…

Rodney Campbell is in there somewhere trying to jump in the water.

Waiting for the stars.

It would be very much remit of us (Rodney Campbell) to not utilise the wonderful pine forests New Zealand has to offer. Whilst they may need some improvements on their row alignment this little stand of trees near Twizel did provide some entertainment for us while we waited for the clouds to part and the stars to reveal themselves for some astro shots.

Tasman Lake, not so much sunrise.

Iceberg B-sides.. or should i say, there are more below…

Its pretty cool how the light changes, the first several shots here at Tasman Lake were long exposures and super blue, as the light came up thru the fog the bergs and water took on more of that classic aqua high mineral content look…

Glad to say I did not fall in…

Iceberg.

Ran out of toilet paper today, so had to start using lettuce leaves… today was the tip of the iceberg.

you know how many more iceberg shots I have? enough for weeks of really quality puns, but i’ll spare the pain 🙂

What do you call an iceberg in a ghost sheet?

A polargeist

Twizel Reflections.

I think Twizel is a very much unrated little town in NZ, its no Queenstown or Lake Tekapo, but its got a genuine salt of the earth feel to it where it seems people are not pretentious. Could just be me and preferring to be in a place with less tourists (yes I know the irony of that since I am one). A shout out to the local kids who rock up in town for hot chips wearing shorts… i suppose it was a barmy 4 degrees… 😉

During our ( Rodney Campbell ) stay here we tried a bunch of food places and it was nice to have a great variety, from the local bakery to a more upmarket cafe (Mint Cafe – good coffee there) and the local street food stalls, of which the pizza one was so popular it sold out by the time we got there.

Its also a popular salmon fishing/farming place, hence I think i may have eaten my yearly share of salmon while I was there, burgers to breakfast and dinner…

These shots were taken on the second wind of the first sunrise we had there, we had hit the Lake Poaka for some reflections but could see some nice fog still sitting around the town, hence we made a dash back to the local town lake (Lake Ruataniwha) to smash some reflections, this was just the start of chasing the location which had the best and most still reflections…

Reflection.

Sometimes you need to standout from the rest.

Lake Ruataniwha, New Zealand