Good and inspiring place to enjoy a sunset from

Bit under-the-weather this week with a tooth issue so until my second visit to my wonderful dentist down the road tomorrow I'm fuzzy enough to not feel much like writing, so as is my style it's easier to share some favorite landscape photography of our New Zealand mountains again.

The three shots below were all made some years back on the mountains in the vicinity of Canyon Creek in the Ahuriri valley just a bit north of Wanaka.

An out-rider peak to the north of Mt Barth. Many souls prowling around being tourists on a Search and Rescue alpine cliff rescue exercise...


Contrasted here by just two of us on another occasion, and what a privilege to witness and partake in the experience typified by this evening shot on the south side of Mt Barth...


To the right of my friend Alan is the unmistakable blip of Mt Aspiring...


More soon inc. replies to your welcome comments as soon as I have the feeling pre Xmas is under control!

Actively in the New Zealand landscape

I'm just back from a wonderful weekend in the nearby Ahuriri valley. One of my favourite places since I was a kid. Access is just so easy, it's so quiet and offers so much be it for the landscape photographer, artist, fisherman, or like myself in my early days for: canoeing, tramping and mountaineering.

I've always thought someone made a great job on this range of cutting out the sky to match the ridge...


The greens in this landscape attracted my attention...


Lambing is late in these high country parts. A few days ago there was 3 inches of snow here...


Birchwood Station, with my favourite Mt Barth in the back ground...


Overnight the weather came in wild, and today, it made for much wind and cold rain near Canyon Creek...


In the last 3 posts I've written extensively about perception and reality, and with today's upcoming storm I was reminded quite vividly that our New Zealand mountains are not the place to go to sort out your head, or be a guru in, but places of extreme reality and environment. Thus I reckon a trip or two where bad weather intrudes brings out the best in life!