Lake Poaka Reflections

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Lake Poaka Reflections

Ben Ohau Range in the background with the nice snow capped tips.

If your looking for an unassuming camp ground and location, this is it, its no Queenstown or Lake Tekapo but still pretty cool and the ducks are friendly. Less tourists here too 🙂

Typically all 4 or 5 shot panoramas as the morning light progressed.

 

Hello Peaky.

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Hello Peaky.
whatcha hiding under there? nasty avalanches, rockfalls, razor sharp ridges and guaranteed crevasses…

would be a damn great view from up there tho.

Mount Cook or more correctly Aoraki

 

Church of the Good Shepherd

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Church of the Good Shepherd

Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

Me and Rodninator (Rodney Campbell) have cracked the secret of getting clear skies. Just pretend your not gonna shoot the milkyway ’cause its so damn overcast and get ready to go to bed.. then as a joke before hopping into bed just say ‘ imagine if the sky was clear now’ 🙂

and Moses parted the clouds, religion is good for something, if only for decent buildings.

 

Lake Poaka, NZ

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Lake Poaka, NZ

Rodney Campbell and I had two locations for this sunrise, the decision was made to decide on the way which one would be better given the conditions. We opted for this little duck pond rather than the bigger majestic Lake Pukaki, which would have been pretty good too, but limited in options, ie one shot wonder.

It ended up being a half decent sunrise.

 

Wanaka Tree.

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Wanaka Tree.

Its gotta be the most recognisable tree on the planet I reckon. Some old fence post out in a lake in New Zealand which was never satisfied with just being a fence post, grew into a worldwide icon.

Myself and Rodney Campbell did get to this tree pretty early, much earlier than all the other tourists, the ones with gumboots and the ones with drones. Hence we did have it all to ourselves for a short time.

It is a fantastic tree, another one of those places in NZ that you could just throw your camera at it and get a great shot. I took alot of shots here, this one is probably my fav, I’ll post all the b sides next, there is a lot of them…

 

Roy’s Peak, NZ

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Roy’s Peak, NZ

Took a stroll up this little hill for sunset. Sunset actually turned out alright.

Here’s some fun facts about Roys peak, from the carpark to the peak is about 7km and has a elevation gain of 1295m, I can confirm, going up is harder than going down. For me, it was a little under 2 hours to the dunny (instagram spot) and another 30 minutes to the actual peak. The time down was 1 and half hours with a bit of trail running to activate the legs. The path on the way up was muddy, but on the way down frosted and frozen over. There was snow at the top with parts of the path icy as f.

This shot was was pretty well one of the last shots I took before heading back down. The colour was still nice and very soft and everyone else had left with not a breath of wind and silence that would wake you when your dead.

If you look to the bottom right, you can see the carpark.

3 shot panorama.

 

Faces of Long Reef.

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Faces of Long Reef.

Pretty impressive sunrise, great colour from early on all the way thru to the sun coming up.

Definitely one of those mornings where you could just throw your camera at the scene and get a decent shot.

Just a few of the portrait orientation shots from the morning.

getting wet with Rodney Campbell