Feature: Winter | Snow

  • Early morning starts at Lake Tasman may be cold but they are often beautiful for photography
  • A colourful sunrise lights up remnant snow from a recent storm in the Tasman Valley
  • Aoraki-Mt Cook (3724m) towers above inversion cloud blanketing the Tasman Valley
  • The rising sun creates strong light contrasts on the Southern Alps
  • A UFO cloud (altocumulus lenticularis) hovers over Aoraki / Mt Cook
  • The towering Mt Aspiring (3,033m), often referred to as New Zealand's Matterhorn
  • 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
  • A hoar frost descends on the trees surrounding Wairepo Arm, near Twizel.
  • A chilly start to the day (-14 degrees C) on a back country road near Lake Tekapo
  • The Earnslaw Glacier hangs precariously below the twin peaks of Mt Earnslaw (2,830m)
  • A frozen Lake Lyell in the headwaters of the Rakaia River
  • When the hoar frost descends on the Mackenzie Country it can be so intense that it looks like snow!
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