The third New Zealand holiday photographs blog post is about landscapes. Looking at my compositions, I realize that I am much less of a landscape photographer than I may have thought. Of course, New Zealand abounds with impressive landscapes on every coast and in between. I am also as much in love with nature and the outdoors as ever. However, I think that landscape photography is mostly about being at a beautiful place at a right time. With respect to photography, I am now more interested in seeing and discovering than in being. Therefore, details and intimate views are the subjects I am mostly after, not primarly broad landscape vistas. Nevertheless, here is a collection of my most preferred "classical" New Zealand landscape photographs of our trip. Some of these landscape photographs are more documentary than the others and you can see that I was particularly inspired at Muriwai Beach, Tongariro, and Lake Pukaki and the Aoraki/Mount Cook area. Besides the landscape gallery, all my New Zealand photographs are collected in a dedicated New Zealand gallery.
The three Emerald Lakes, Central Crater, and Blue Lake (on the left edge, in the background), Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
Rocks and surf at Monroe Beach, New Zealand
Kaikoura, New Zealand
