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Ice exploration by everlookphotography

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Hooker Lake
New Zealand

Standing before Mt Cook in the icy waters of Hooker Lake. Not as silly as it sounds with appropriate waders on 🙂

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Beneath The Black And Purple by tpoulton001

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It’s amazing how we have boogey locations that always fail us with conditions and locations that always produce the most epic light. Mount Cook in New Zealand is notorious for bad weather and so many people walk away with nothing. I’m blessed with the most amazing luck and have amassed a fine collection of images from the highest peak in New Zealand, all you have to do is search Mount Cook on 500px you’ll find some of that luck. Yesterdays sunset and astro was no exception, with light wispy clouds, all purple and red and the way the light captured the peak, took my breath away. Conditions were perfect with only a light wind and the temperature was a comfortable 10°, plenty of Steinlarger to get us through the night and only the wildlife to keep us company.

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Rush Hour by tpoulton001

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Aoraki / Mount Cook

With Hooker Lake at the highest level I’ve ever seen and 60 – 70km winds the ferocious water at the mouth of the river was insane. Mt Cook locally know as the Sky Father turned on an incredible show with clouds dancing around the peak and catching the finally light of the day.

Captured using the Schneider 28mm Tilt Shift with my shift-flip technique, stitching 2 frames for a vertical pano. Benefits of this technique is natural vignetting of the lens, perfect stitching and nice overlap.

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Smoke Signals by everlookphotography

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Aoraki reflected in ‘Trenchard’s Tarn’ in the early morning as a puff of cloud dissolves in the sky.

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Ethereal Luminance by ScottMcCook

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Hey Guys 🙂

We’ve been back just on 3 weeks now since our visit to the South Island of New Zealand. We had such a blast there photographing and just enjoying time away from work.

This is Mt Cook captured from the Hooker Valley in new Zealand.

The first edit I did on this particular image was from my alienware 18 while on location in New Zealand. Security check point staff still laugh everytime I get that laptop out to put in the tray for scanning, it barely even fits! It’s heavy but its awesome in regards to editing power and the screen is nice and big, many photographers I know don’t like editing on the run and I agree in a way, for me though it is important to begin an edit if i’m still buzzing from the experience, I tend to find that mood will be injected into the image as I process, so i’ll normally do an initial edit on location and then tidy it up at home.

Sometimes that’s harder than it sounds because I wonder where my wacky brain was when I was editing on location 😉 I might have some great ideas in regards to vision while editing in the field but they tend not to be too tidy 😉

So I had great pleasure in going back to this and giving it a bit more love 🙂

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luminance by ScottMcCook

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From the minute I laid eyes on Mt Cook I knew we had to get out there and shoot it, I don’t often have such an overwhelming feeling from a location calling out to me but for the last few days we’ve been in the area this mountain has been visible on the horizon, calling for me to get closer.

I had been checking the weather and at the last minute we got a clearing yesterday afternoon and it emerged from the clouds. We loaded up the gear and made the hour drive from lake Tekapo to the hooker valley/mt cook carpark. We had arrived a little late but I had already set my mind on a composition a little further back using the rocks and boulders left in the wake of the receding glazier and scattered by running water. I wanted to connect the scene with one of these big boulders which had most likely started it’s life up near it’s original home Mt Cook.

It took me a while to dial in the scene and then I waited for some cool light. I originally planned for the warm light as the sun went down and lit up the tip of the mountain but after witnessing the whole scene over 3 hours, I preferred the light as we entered into twilight and the half moon came out, leaving everything looking a little more cooler and with a slight magenta cast.

It was probably one of the coolest shoots I’ve ever done, made even better by enjoying it with my other half Erica. After the action had calmed down we sat on our rocks and ate some packed dinner soaking in the 1 billion star restaurant views, best place we’ve had a feed so far, no bookings needed and mother nature put on a great service 😉

It’s not often I get to mix landscape photography and hanging out with my other half Erica, it’s normally the blokes, coffee, swearing and no sleep for many days 😉 So it was really cool to be able to enjoy this with her and also enjoy something else I’m so passionate about

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Lost Star by tpoulton001

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PHOTOGRAPHY TOURS

So much of this poet’s work resonates with landscape photography, do yourself a favour and check him out.

Lost Star by Rabindranath Tagore
When the creation was new and all the stars shone in their first
splendor, the gods held their assembly in the sky and sang
`Oh, the picture of perfection! the joy unalloyed!’

But one cried of a sudden
—`It seems that somewhere there is a break in the chain of light
and one of the stars has been lost.’

The golden string of their harp snapped,
their song stopped, and they cried in dismay
—`Yes, that lost star was the best,
she was the glory of all heavens!’

From that day the search is unceasing for her,
and the cry goes on from one to the other
that in her the world has lost its one joy!

Only in the deepest silence of night the stars smile
and whisper among themselves
—`Vain is this seeking! unbroken perfection is over all!’

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