Footprints
A simple scene on the ice field, doing what is has done countless times, in the silence without a soul in sight. On this particular evening, I was thankful to be a witness.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Frozen Land
A side of New Zealand not many know, and one that is rapidly disappearing. Where ice and snow stretch for miles and rise up to the highest of heights. The beauty of such a place is hard to comprehend.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Sunsoaked
One of the most breathtaking sights I’ve beheld, as warm buttery light spread warmth onto a frozen world of expansive mountains of ice.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Icewreck
A break in the darkness as the culmination of light and ice met as one for a fleeting moment.
Fox Glacier, New Zealand (2021)
Caked
Stress fractures in the ice, pull apart and create an expansive field of cube shapes, each large enough to easily fit a few houses on. Here, the sunset light spread across the surface, creating a foreign and dreamlike environment.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Underworld
Sunlight upon thick ice walls within a glacier.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Ice Towers
A scene of pure beauty in such an inhospitable environment. The contrast of warm sunset light across the surface of the ice was bliss. It’s hard to comprehend, but the foreground ice is the equivalent of large hills.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Here Right Now
Looking down upon a conveyor belt of ice that stretches on for miles. The scale is lost here, but you’d struggle to find a car if it were parked anywhere on the icy surface. As the day came to an end, the colours shifted on the ice into a beautiful array of warm hues. I felt privileged to behold such a sight.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Battlefield
A scarred battlefield of ice and snow stretching for miles.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Breakfree
Warm sunlight filters into the frozen heart of the Tasman glacier, where these icy walls have waited centuries for such a sight.
Tasman Glacier, New Zealand (2021)
Ice Sea
Last light skims across a field of endless snow and ice.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Kiss
As the sun met the horizon, the final rays of warm light prepare to drift off the sea of ice.
Southern Alps Glacier, New Zealand (2021)
Requiem
A scene that slowly emerged, like something from a dream. Where light and atmosphere danced across the land, water encircled my feet and where I am truly home.
Fiordland, New Zealand (2021)
Dominion
Where rock and ice rise to the highest of heights and overshadow any who stand in the presence of such a grand display.
Aoraki/Mt Cook, New Zealand (2021)
Immersion
A frame I've tried to find for some time, showcasing the lush forest, along with one of the rain-falls that plunge hundreds of metres from the nearby mountains.
Fiordland, New Zealand (2021)
Blue Pool
A vibrant pool of blue, slowly fed by the melting ice. Tucked up and away in the heart of the mountains.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Beacon
All is quiet as darkness turns to light, and the faces of giants glow like beacons of the land.
Fiordland, New Zealand (2021)
Fade
A world of ice, slowly turning back to stone.
Tasman Glacier, New Zealand (2021)
Gratitude
The West Coast on a pristine autumn afternoon, after a fresh dusting of snow adorned the high peaks.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Gates Of The Fiord
The Murchison Mountains and South Arm of Lake Te Anau, captured one morning as the impressionable Fiordland mist was illuminated at dawn.
Te Anau, New Zealand (2021)
Vanguard
Innumerable moments like this pass by in the wilderness, without a single eye witnessing it. On this particular afternoon, I was a grateful bystander, as shadow and light danced across the land.
Southern Alps, New Zealand (2021)
Departure
As a new day dawns and a veil of cloud slowly rises to the heavens. This was the brief moment in-between.
West Coast, New Zealand (2021)
Tasman
A simple scene of light and the wonder of the mountain.
Mount Tasman, New Zealand (2021)
Gateway To The Light
One of those moments you simply come across at the exact right moment, just in time to take it in and watch it vanish a few seconds after pressing the shutter.
Otago, New Zealand (2021)
The Way Of Light
The most magnificent of light is found at the clearing of a storm, right as the sun sinks down to the horizon.
Fiordland, New Zealand (2021)
Glow Of The Dawn
There's not much that compares to being greeted by a red glow on the horizon, as you peer out of your tent in the early hours of the morning. As the water boils for your coffee, the light slowly spreads and ignites the entire sky. A wilderness show like no other.
Joes Valley, Fiordland, New Zealand (2021)
I Am Here
Sometimes in life, we seek for something even though the answers are often right in front of us. At a certain point in my life, coming across this scene was the assurance I needed most.
Fiordland, New Zealand (2021)