Phantom by ScottMcCook

Posted on December 24, 2015 by birdmanps

Hey Guys,

Now i’m back here in Perth and finished work for the year it’s a good time to slightly tweak or Mod images from NZ I did on the road, this is one from the Church of The Good Shepherd, I’m sure it needs no introduction 🙂

Scotty

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C.H.U.R.C.H by mikc84

Posted on December 2, 2015 by birdmanps

Church of The Good Shepherd

Lake Tekapo, NZ

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Church Of The Good Shepherd by ScottMcCook

Posted on November 8, 2015 by birdmanps

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Probably one of the most well known locations in New Zealand, with another one of my takes on it 🙂

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Springtime Rush of Lake Tekapo by PatrickMarsonOng

Posted on October 13, 2015 by birdmanps

Aha! Dug through some old files and found this taken waaaay back 2012, it was my first visit to New Zealand.

This is a two exposure shot blended together. 100 seconds for the sky and a quick one for the foreground.

It’s gonna be lupine season in a couple of weeks and south island’s gonna be more colorful!! 😉 Wish I could just beam myself there! Amazing, yeah?!

Wishing you all a great week! Cheers!

Oh, accidentally typed an extra 1 on my watermark! Lol!

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Evening light by elkynz

Posted on October 11, 2015 by birdmanps

The Church of the Good Shepherd of Lake Tekapo under the evening light.

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Skyfall by tpoulton001

Posted on October 2, 2015 by birdmanps

I remember the first time I saw an image of the Church Of The Good Shepherd by Australian photographer AtomicZen and his amazing astro shot with all the psychedelic lupins. Looking at the image now it’s a little noisy and completely over the top but it was just so awesome, I knew then I wanted to capture that place in every condition during every season.

This year on my winter photography adventure for OOAK with Jake Anderson my dream shot finally came true and the church grounds were covered in snow and the majestic Southern Alps had the same treatment. I may never capture a scene like this again, but one things for certain, I’ll keep on trying.

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Twilight Rush at Lake Tekapo by PatrickMarsonOng

Posted on August 29, 2015 by birdmanps

Enjoying the cold winter breeze in Lake Tekapo as we end our day with a sunset shoot. Was so lazy, I didn’t even bother to bring out the camera from the car. Baaaaad! Lol!
Ahhh… true enough, regret crawls in as everything turned into pink after sunset. Having a mental template of what I want shoot, I waited for my buddy to finish up, borrowed his camera, got my cf card in and fired away! Pulled off a shot with waves using high iso as the light slowly fades away. Hope you check it out! Happy weekend guys! Cheers!

“If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don’t like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.” – Sean O’Connell

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At Church by markg

Posted on July 26, 2015 by birdmanps

The Church of the Good Shepherd on the shores of Lake Tekapo in New Zealand, is one of the most photographed churches in the world. It’s surounded by spectatular natural beauty, and on a clear night the stars and the Milky Way shine brightly above.

It’s certainly not the easiest church to get a clear shot of, especially at night due to the hordes of photographers who jostle for position to get that iconic photo. Fortunately for me this night, I was shooting for a tourist campaign, and was able to get at least part of the view clear for the shoot.

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✔ by tpoulton001

Posted on July 2, 2015 by birdmanps

Since starting in landscape photography, I have created a bucket list of locations I’d love to capture in certain conditions and light. For the last 4 years I have travelled frequently to New Zealand, guiding tours for One of A Kind Photography Adventures. On that list is the Church Of The Good Shepherd and Lake Tekapo surrounded by snow. Why do so many bucket lists have to involve extreme events such as sky diving, hiking that peak or capturing a hurricane? Do you really need to climb a mountain?

We seldom grow inside our comfort zone.
With this in mind, it is important to travel outside our comfortable zone but how extreme does it have to be? More importantly, why does it have to be so? After you have completed the extreme task, how do you readjust to going back to your normal life? Is your normal life simply unfulfilling?

As Philippe Petit, the only person to ever walk across the World Trade Center towers on a high wire, once said: “Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge- and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.”

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Church and the Aurora by markg

Posted on July 1, 2015 by birdmanps

A surprise visit from the Aurora at the end of the night shooting at Lake Tekapo in New Zealand. By this time it was close to 3am and I was ready to head to bed, but ended up shooting for another hour or so as it was too good an opportunity to pass up!

Whilst this isn’t a technically perfect image (stars are slightly out of focus) I thought I’d post it anyway…