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

    Strong waves pushed back by a fighting westerly wind.

  • 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.

  • Picture yourself standing in a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains rising up in the distance. The air is crisp and cold, and light snow is falling from the sky, covering the landscape with a soft, white blanket.

    In the foreground, a frozen stream with layers of ice has built up over time, creating delicate, lace-like formations that glitter in the sunlight.

    Take a tour of these artworks in detail.

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  • Picture yourself standing in a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains rising up in the distance. The air is crisp and cold, and light snow is falling from the sky, covering the landscape with a soft, white blanket.

    In the foreground, a frozen stream with layers of ice has built up over time, creating delicate, lace-like formations that glitter in the sunlight.

    Take a tour of these artworks in detail.

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  • Picture yourself standing in a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains rising up in the distance. The air is crisp and cold, and light snow is falling from the sky, covering the landscape with a soft, white blanket.

    In the foreground, a frozen stream with layers of ice has built up over time, creating delicate, lace-like formations that glitter in the sunlight.

    Take a tour of these artworks in detail.

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  • Picture yourself standing in a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains rising up in the distance. The air is crisp and cold, and light snow is falling from the sky, covering the landscape with a soft, white blanket.

    In the foreground, a frozen stream with layers of ice has built up over time, creating delicate, lace-like formations that glitter in the sunlight.

    Take a tour of these artworks in detail.

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  • Picture yourself standing in a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains rising up in the distance. The air is crisp and cold, and light snow is falling from the sky, covering the landscape with a soft, white blanket.

    In the foreground, a frozen stream with layers of ice has built up over time, creating delicate, lace-like formations that glitter in the sunlight.

    Take a tour of these artworks in detail.

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  • Picture yourself standing in a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains rising up in the distance. The air is crisp and cold, and light snow is falling from the sky, covering the landscape with a soft, white blanket.

    In the foreground, a frozen stream with layers of ice has built up over time, creating delicate, lace-like formations that glitter in the sunlight.

    Take a tour of these artworks in detail.

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  • Picture yourself standing in a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains rising up in the distance. The air is crisp and cold, and light snow is falling from the sky, covering the landscape with a soft, white blanket.

    In the foreground, a frozen stream with layers of ice has built up over time, creating delicate, lace-like formations that glitter in the sunlight.

    Take a tour of these artworks in detail.

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  • Picture yourself standing in a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains rising up in the distance. The air is crisp and cold, and light snow is falling from the sky, covering the landscape with a soft, white blanket.

    In the foreground, a frozen stream with layers of ice has built up over time, creating delicate, lace-like formations that glitter in the sunlight.

    Take a tour of these artworks in detail.

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  • Picture yourself standing in a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains rising up in the distance. The air is crisp and cold, and light snow is falling from the sky, covering the landscape with a soft, white blanket.

    In the foreground, a frozen stream with layers of ice has built up over time, creating delicate, lace-like formations that glitter in the sunlight.

    Take a tour of these artworks in detail.

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  • 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.

  • Using a 1000x ND filter lets you take slow exposure shots even in the brightest day.

    This image, taken Christmas Eve 2008, just after 9am.

     

  • Over thousands of years, global warming can cause the valley to change completely, turning it into a different type of landscape with different plant and animal species.

    In the first few decades, new plants and animals move in, and the valley becomes a more diverse ecosystem. But as the climate warms due to global warming, extreme weather events like heavy rain and flooding can cause erosion, soil loss, and habitat destruction.

    This can have lasting impacts on the valley's vegetation and animal life. Over centuries, global warming can cause prolonged droughts and more frequent wildfires, while changes in seasonal timing can disrupt the delicate balance of the ecosystem.

     

  • Over thousands of years, global warming can cause the valley to change completely, turning it into a different type of landscape with different plant and animal species.

    In the first few decades, new plants and animals move in, and the valley becomes a more diverse ecosystem. But as the climate warms due to global warming, extreme weather events like heavy rain and flooding can cause erosion, soil loss, and habitat destruction.

    This can have lasting impacts on the valley's vegetation and animal life. Over centuries, global warming can cause prolonged droughts and more frequent wildfires, while changes in seasonal timing can disrupt the delicate balance of the ecosystem.

  • Picture yourself standing in a beautiful valley, surrounded by mountains rising up in the distance. The air is crisp and cold, and light snow is falling from the sky, covering the landscape with a soft, white blanket.

    In the foreground, a frozen stream with layers of ice has built up over time, creating delicate, lace-like formations that glitter in the sunlight.

    Take a tour of these artworks in detail.

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  • 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.

  • Pier Number 3, taken on the 17th of July 2008.

    Slow exposure of the pastel scene, a grain added during editing to enhance the image.

  • Pier Number 4, taken on the 17th of July 2008.

    Slow exposure of the waves beneath the Pier, lit by purple light, a grain added during editing to enhance the image.

  • Pier number 8, taken on the 17th of June 2008, after sunset.

    A slow exposure to show the stark contrast of an impermeable structure amongst the slowly rising sea.