Purify
The simplified purity that winter brings to the landscape, as lakes freeze over and the surrounding landscape is turned to white. There’s a certain smell in the air within the beech forests of Fiordland, particularly in winter when branches are frost covered in the crips air. On this morning, temperatures were -10 celsius and hoar frost decorated the shadow filled valleys. The warm, morning coffee was much appreciated after this sunrise shoot.
Lake Mackenzie, Fiordland, New Zealand
Waiting For The Sun
A bitterly cold morning beside a fractured and frozen Lake Mackenzie on the Routeburn Track. The final journey to the lake involved a few kilometres of tramping through fresh snow and hoar frost, with night temperatures reaching past -10. The loud and unusual sound of the ice sheet cracking and contracting would echo throughout the valley all night.