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Finally we are back from another once-in-a-lifetime trip to the other side of the world. More precisely, we spent 22 days exploring the land of the long white cloud, New Zealand. I’m sure I don’t have to convince you that New Zealand is breathtaking and it is actually much bigger than it looks on the map, so our three week schedule was pretty tight as we explored both the north and the south island. Back home, it took a few weeks to roughly sort through the almost 4000 images and I’ll start uploading a few of my favourites over the next weeks that immediately caught my eye while looking through the catalog.

This first image is actually from pretty much the end of our trip, when we drove to the famous Moeraki boulders which are large, almost perfectly spherical rocks scattered along a beach on the Otago coast on the south island. We arrived at the nearby campground 2 hours before sunset, payed for the fee for the night and then had a really nice chat with the campground operator, who talked with us for half an hour and told us everything about her recent trip to England and Scotland. After that we had to hurry to get to the boulders in time for sunset, but luckily they are just a few minutes drive from the campground. To our surprise, we were almost alone and enjoyed the sunset which was not overly spectacular, but I might upload an image of the following blue hour one day. As it turned out by looking at the tide chart at the campground, we had also missed the high tide by a few days, meaning a few days earlier the high tide would have been right around sunset and sunrise, but in our case it was predicted for the night and noon the next day.

Nevertheless, we returned the next morning for sunrise which was amazing as the morning light seemed to mimic the Orthon effect adding a certain glow to this beautiful scenery. After scouting this location the evening before, I decided to go for a vertical shot of this cracked boulder since another boulder was protruding into the left side of the image in landscape format. However, since it’s not always possible to judge on location what fits a scene best, I switched my camera into horizontal orientation, and as luck would have it, shortly thereafter a larger wave rushed onto the beach and just barely reached this cracked boulder. Luckily, I was already set up, pressed the shutter and captured my favourite image from this location which I hope you like as much as I do! :)

Tags:   New Zealand NZ Neuseeland Moeraki Boulders Otago coast beach sunrise rocks waves glow landscape seascape long exposure Sony ILCE-7M4 Sony A7IV Sony FE 24-105mm f/4 G OSS sea Aotearoa

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Here’s another image from last year’s trip to NZ: I already uploaded the image Beyond Nowhere from this location whose description also includes the whole story around our journey to this beach, and it is something to remember: the arrival on the beautiful South Island, the five-hour drive without a single break over the windiest roads I’ve ever driven (and all with a big motorhome on the “wrong” side of the road) to the northernmost point where civilization is very sparse and electricity is limited, and finally the hurried hike to the beach. But all of that was so worth it and we did make it for sunset which was less spectacular than we had hoped (don’t get me wrong, the local is spectacular, but there was just no interest in the sky), but as the light faded I noticed the water channels in the sand that made some nice leading lines towards the Archway Islands. And so we kept shooting until it was completely dark and enjoyed our limited time at one of the most beautiful beaches I’ve yet been to. I hope you like it!

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