Feature: Mountain

  • Early morning starts at Lake Tasman may be cold but they are often beautiful for photography
  • Aoraki-Mt Cook (3724m) towers above inversion cloud blanketing the Tasman Valley
  • A stunning evening sky reflects in a tarn in the Lake Adelaide basin, Fiordland National Park
  • An alignment of rocks provides a great leading line to this winter scene at Lake Tekapo
  • In summer the lupin flowers blooming along the hydro canals of the Mackenzie Basin are a treat for the eye
  • The rising sun creates strong light contrasts on the Southern Alps
  • A UFO cloud (altocumulus lenticularis) hovers over Aoraki / Mt Cook
  • The foothill ranges between Mt Hutt and Mt Somers provide this great layering effect
  • The towering Mt Aspiring (3,033m), often referred to as New Zealand's Matterhorn
  • Avalanche Glacier, Mt Aspiring National Park, illuminated at day's first light
  • Sunrise lights up the Ben Ohau Range across Lake Pukaki
  • A super crisp winter's afternoon on the shore of Lake Heron
  • Blue hour at Lake Camp, Canterbury
  • A close-encounter with the blue ice of Brewster Glacier
  • First light greets the Southern Alps beyond Braemar Station
  • Lupin flowers line the Pukaki Canal in the Mackenzie Basin
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