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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The building was officially opened on October 7, 1907 and remains largely in its original condition, having been restored in 2009. The refurbishment won the Public Architecture category of the 2010 Southern Architecture Awards and the 2011 NZIA Heritage award for Heritage Conservation. More information here.