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

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

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

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

I was sunset shooting at the Kaikoura Peninsular when the gulls that were gracing my foreground got spooked. Quite an eerie effect as they made a run for it.

Canon 5DII + Carl Zeiss ZE 21mm + Lee 0.9 ND Grad Filter + Lee 0.9 Pro ND Filter

The calm after the storm. Hard to believe just hours prior to this shot I was digging out the vehicle in one of the worst blizzards theyve had in these parts for some time. The gale force winds have put the melt into high-speed mode!

Canon 5DII + Carl Zeiss 35-70 + B+W Circular Polariser + 2 Stop ND Grad Filter

Looking towards the seaward Kaikoura's on New Zealand's east coast.

Canon 5DII + Carl Zeiss ZE21mm + Lee 0.9 ND Grad Filter

Kaiteriteri Beach at the top of New Zealand's, South Island. A very popular retreat in the summer months, but in the middle of winter we were the only ones there. I used a 10 stop ND filter to give me a very long exposure. The idea was to try and add some interest to the moving clouds. This is the resulting 8 minute exposure!

Canon 5DII, Carl Zeiss ZE 21mm + Lee Big Stopper + 3 stop hard ND Filter