About 20 minutes after sunset on a balmy spring evening. What looked like a pleasant sunset transformed into something quite unreal. I was cursing about the sunset that I missed the night before. But the sequel was certainly pretty in its own right 

Canon 5DII + Carl Zeiss 35-70 + Lee 2 stop hard ND grad + Lee 3 stop Pro ND

Just outside my beloved accommodation in Jodhpur, Northwest India. What a trip that was!

Canon 5DII + 17-40L 

As the forecast front approaches I managed to get a quick stitch in of the iconic lighthouse at the Castlepoint settlement. Not the calm evening light I was hoping for but dramatic in its own right I guess.

Canon 5DII + Carl Zeiss 35-70 + Lee 2 stop Soft ND Grad. 6 Shot Stitch

A moody night at Castlepoint in the Wairarapa. With rain imminent I set the camera up for a long exposure for something a little less typical of the lighthouse. As it got darker and darker I kept adding more time, until after my best guess I closed the shutter after 12 minutes. Quite an ethereal effect.

Canon 5DII + Zeiss ZE 21mm Distagon + Lee Big Stopper

Castlepoint on the east coast of the North Island. What a spectacular spot! The weather gods werent too kind but the sky exploded for literally half a minute. Enough time for a quick stitch up of the iconic lighthouse from the main beach.

Canon 5DII + 70-200 f4 I.S. + Lee 0.6 ND Grad, 6 shot stitch

A touch of spring in North Hagley Park, Christchurch. One small corner of the park shows off its delicate side in the first few weeks of spring.

Canon 5DII + 70-200 F4 I.S. + 1.4x convertor, 8 Shots on a RRS Pano Head

Spring has sprung in Hagley Park, Christchurch. A bit of colour to contrast the changing face of our city.

Canon 5DII + Carl Zeiss 35-70mm 6 Shot stitch on RRS Pano Head

An opportunist shot taken from the back of my cabin on the fringes of Lake Tekapo during the big snowstorm in early July. I hunkered down under another large Redwood to get this shot as the snow pounded down.

Canon 5DII + Zeiss ZE 21mm

A panorama of the mountain range near Omarama, bordering South Canterbury and Otago. The morning of this day I was stuck in one of the worst blizzards you could imagine. But by the afternoon the weather started to break and gave us enough time to get out of our snowed in cabin and make the drive further south.

Canon 5DII + 70-200 f4 I.S. + Lee 0.6 ND Grad. 8 Shot stitched panorama.

Taken deep in the Waitaki Valley in Southern Canterbury. Beyond the distant range the roads were becoming impassable but on this side the only weather to contend with was the howling southerly gale. I decided to use this to my advantage and let the foreground tussocks behave appropriately.

Canon 5DII + Zeiss ZE21mm + Lee Pro ND 3 Stop + Lee 3 Stop Grad Filter