• The Lights

    Two lights, one at the end of the Breakwater, one at the end of Holmes Wharf stand as sentinels in the night guiding the lonely sailor back into Oamaru Harbour to safety.

  • The Lindis Pass

    The Lindis Pass, beautiful mountains rise above the thin ribbon of a road stretching out on it's journey into the distance.

    Digitally painted by Derek Golding, the beautiful warm colours will compliment any room.

  • The Lindis Pass Panoramic

    The Lindis Pass, beautiful mountains rise above the thin ribbon of a road stretching out on it's journey into the distance.

    Digitally painted by Derek Golding, the beautiful warm colours will compliment any room.

  • The Luminous Wave III

    A break in heavy fog lights up a wave from a distant sunrise at the Oamru Breakwater, Oamaru Harbour.

    Captured at 1/1600th of a second the water appears to shatter like glass against the stone.

     

  • The Lupins

    Lupins abound in the Mackenzie country. This is a digital painting of the beautiful flowers scattered across the district.

    Check out this article in New Zealand Geographic about the love/hate relationship with them here.

     

  • The McKenzie Fence

    High in the McKenzie District, a fence rises over a small outcrop.
    Digitally painted artwork by Derek Golding.

  • The Night

    Canterbury Fire II, a stunning sunset taken from close to the car park at the base of Mount Vernon, Banks Peninsula.

    From memory these were taken Late August 2010, 1 week before the first earthquake hit the district.

    The panoramas "Canterbury Fire I" and "Canterbury Fire II" were taken before this panorama.

     

     

  • The Night Train

    Steampunk HQ in Oamaru is a major draw card to thousands of visitors a year, yet at night, it is the domain of the penguin!

    Well worth a visit at night, as is all the Harbour Precinct area

     

  • The Old Water Wheel

    The Old Water Wheel, Oamaru, prior to it's renovation.
    16th March 2010

  • The Palmerston Tor

    Located inland from Palmerston, this Tor, a rocky outcrop in the landscape, provides shelter for it's own ecosystem.

  • The Road

    High in the hills above Otematata, a road stretches out into the distance.

  • The Road Home

    A stitched panorama of a road to home, 1st November 2014

  • The Road Home Panoramic

    A digital painting by Derek Golding.

    A road stretches home in the back country high above Otematata, North Otago. Nor-wester weather brings about some spectacular lighting in these locations.

  • The Shearers hut Panoramic

    An old shearer's hut stands facing the elements in North Otago.

    Digitally painte,d this image brings out hidden colours within the scene.

  • The Skies Above

    Being close to the sea and a landmass like the cape provides the artist with some stunning cloud formations.

    Here we see Mammatus clouds billowing up above the rear facade of a building on Harbour street.

     

  • The Snowy Kakanuis

    Stitched Panorama of the snowy Kakanui mountains inland from Oamaru.

  • The Tempest

    New Brighton as seen from Sumner Rock. Taken on the 22nd of January 2008.

    Strong waves pushed back by a fighting westerly wind.

  • The Tor

    A Tor is an outcrop of rock in the landscape. Otago has many Tor's scattered across the district thanks to the Geology and weather we experience here.

    This is a digital painting showing the natural bonsai like tree, treated harshly by the prevailing winds into this unusual shape.

  • The Tor Panoramic

    A Tor is an outcrop of rock in the landscape. Otago has many Tor’s scattered across the district thanks to the Geology and weather we experience here.

    This is a digital painting of a natural bonsai-like tree that has been treated harshly by the prevailing winds to form this unusual shape.

  • The Works

    The Bicycle Works, a small bike shop nestled next to the Customs House, Oamaru.
    13th December 2009

  • They Fly Below

    From the car park at the Crown Range road you can sometimes watch aircraft carrying passengers to Queenstown fly below you, coming in to land.

  • Toy Town Oamaru – Steampunk HQ

    Steampunk HQ is located in the former Meeks Grain Elevator Building, a historic building registered with by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category II structure.

  • Toy Town Oamaru – The Whisky Building

    This massive and handsomely detailed grain store built in 1882 for the country’s then largest stock and station agency, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd (NZLMA), is a landmark building in the Oamaru’s Whitestone heritage precinct.  More info via the Historic Places Trust available here

  • Toy Town Oamaru I

    A tilt Shift effect is used to create a toy town! 

    Oamaru as seen from Forrester Heights, the hill overlooking Oamaru on Cape Wanbrow.

  • Under the Stars

    The Church of the Good Shepherd, Tekapo, is a must do for all astrophotographers. 

    The Mackenzie Basin offers some of the clearest night skies in the world and achieved status as the world biggest and best Dark Sky Reserve in 2012.

    This image shows the Church with our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, rising to the east.