Its starting to feel like Summer in NZ!    

“When a Mummy road cone and a Daddy road cone love each other very much, they….”    

I’ve always loved Beech Forests – such dense wood, and hard to photograph as is so dark, and the surface bark of the trees is almost sooty…             Canon 5D3 and Zeiss 50mm F1.4 ZE…

Mana Island at dusk, shot from my couch first photo = 20231104 second & third, tonight = 20231105 Canon 5D3 with Zeiss 50mm F1.4 ZE prime lens      

Canon 5D3 with EF100-400L lens    

Ashburton domain today… implausibly beautiful also shot some Portra400 with XPAN and 1V SLR    

Great work developing the waterfront in Lyttleton… Ditto for the new wharf at Govenors Bay Apparently “built using locally sourced, durable wood Eucalyptus trees” and mostly funded by epic $3 mill community effort. Love the old boat launcher! Shot much…

Such beautiful ancient rain forests surround this remote lake… I came around a corner, saw this view & literally went wow!    

Rai Valley fog, Marlborough Sounds Canon 5D3 DSLR with EF100-400L lens + Silverefx    

fog in Waimahara Wharf Picton outer harbour Marlborough Sounds Canon 5D3 DSLR with EF100-400L lens + Silverefx    

The Council has been rebuilding the fences & parking around Plimmerton train station… And one new carpark with a particular size limit caught my eye so I went & shot some photos today… Parking issues solved!    

Koya – Autumn leaves I drove past this beautiful tree & did a U turn so I could go back & shoot some photos… This is shot with the Zeiss 21mm ZE prime lens wide open with my 5D3 DSLR……

If you live in NZ and have never driven the road out to French Pass, then you should put it on your to do list! As the topomap indicates the road is single lane dirt road across a steep mountain…