Lake Manapouri
New Zealand

During our recent trip to New Zealand, I did one night of the Kepler Track and found myself at Shallow Bay on the shores of Lake Manapouri. Rising mists and light rained combined to give this rainbow over the lake itself. This seemed to last forever and was one of many great moments of our trip. This was an exposoure blend of three images done manually. I did take one with a big stopper but found the feel completely different without the ripples of water and sheen.

The actual footage of the rainbow can be seen in this video
[A New Zealand Miracle part 2]

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Glenorchy Lagoon
New Zealand

Our time spent around Lake Wakatipu was characterised by clear conditions which meant freezing mornings. This led to the marsh grasses freezing over and layers of mist over the water surfaces in the early morning. Charlotte was asleep on my back for the whole time we were out here but hopefully she took in some of the freshness of the whole experience from just being there Marianne was also out and about taking pictures which I will have to bug her to post here !


The video of this section of the trip is here:
A Miracle in New Zealand part 2

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Glenorchy Lagoon
New Zealand

This was one of my most favourite scenes from the trip to New Zealand earlier this year. Having woken up and done our morning routine with Charlotte, we packed her up tight and snug on my back where she soon fell asleep and missed this beautiful dawn which transitioned from pink to gold to misty frost beauty. Glenorchy Lagoon is a must see for any landscape photographer visiting New Zealand on a limited schedule.

The video of our trip at a dizzying pace here:
New Zealand Photoreel

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Perfect reflection in Antern lake by a cold summer morning...

French Alps

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A picture of the Mont Blanc, from Cheserys lake, by a morning of July...

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Plan du lac and the Grande Casse - Vanoise national park - French Alps

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Durant ma session photo en vendée en mai 2012 je suis allé à l'embouchure de la gachère. Cette vague de sable se forme et disparait à chaque marée. Elle se forme entre l'embouchure du havre de la gachère et le ruisseau provenant de la plage. Une rencontre surprenante entre la couleur chaude du sable et celle, froide, du ciel orageux!

During my photo session in vendée (west of france) in may 2012 I have gone to see the harbour of the river "La Gachère". This sand wave is shaping each day between the harbour and the creek coming from the beach. It was a surprinsing meeting between the warm color of sand and the cold one of this stormy sky!

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— Vendée - Brem sur Mer.

Durin my trip on Quiberon Island I have discovered during the afternoon a small beach totally enclosed in a cliff landscape. The angle of the sun in the evening should be ideal then I came back at the sunset to shoot this waterscape. It was not easy to get down to the small beach cause the path was not accessible at high tide then I have decided to get there at low tide and wait for the water to mount. At high tide the beach was reduced to some meters. I was lucky at the end to find a way to get back on the cliff !
To realize this image I have shooted three different exposures for the beach, the sky and the cliffs.

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J'adore cette endroit de la corniche vendéenne. Au milieu des eaux à marée montante le soir ce endroit est vraiment exceptionel. Une ligne de rocher se dessine comme en train de sortir de l'eau. Totalement envoutant comme endroit. Par contre il ne faut pas tarder il est facile de se laisser enfermer par la marée montante.

I really like this place on the vendeenne ledge. In the middle of coming waters at evening this is very awesome. This rock line seems to escape from waters. Totally dreaming as a place. Anyway, you must not let the time goes because you can easily be locked by mounting sea.

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— Vendée.

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There are certain scenes, moments, and feelings in life which linger on in your memory. Like catching the eye of the one you fall in love with, the first kiss, holding hands and watching the sunset, hearing the first piece of music send a chill down your spine, which then forms your favourite band, musician, or genre. These are the types of things that stay with you the rest of your life; things you can look back upon and smile with a light heart.

My life's goal is to capture precious light -- whether it be in the form of photons that have potentially travelled millions of years to fall upon my camera's sensor from the most distant celestial wonders, to the light that travels 8 minutes from our own star, to strike the Earth in the guise of a beautiful sunrise -- when I do capture something special, it lingers within me and leaves a lasting impression.

This scene was captured after 3 days of waiting for the right light. I feel very lucky and blessed to have been able to witness (and, experience) one of the, if not, the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen, at one of the most remote, primal and pristine places left in the world -- Milford Sound.

To give you an idea as to the sheer scale of this place, the waterfall that you can see at centre right (Stirling Falls) is approximately 8 km away.

With the soft light illuminating the clouds from the western horizon to the east and to the south behind me, in a gorgeous pink, it is something that I will never forget.

The 5D Mark II remains a landscape eating machine.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
6s f/16.0 at 35.0mm iso100

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Mount Cook in post sunset glow approximately 30 km to the North.

I waited to capture this scene for 2 days and while the light lived up to my expectations, the clouds, however, had other ideas. You win some, you lose some, I guess.

Typically, in my captures, I blur the movement of water with longer exposures, but, to try and compensate for the lack of brilliant colour in the clouds, I thought I would freeze the movement in the water with a relatively short exposure and try for some dynamism.

Moments after capturing this image, the orange blaze disappeared and the bank of cloud from the west rolled in to blanket the scene and dropped a fresh dusting of snow.

I made this image while standing in the Tasman River on a freezing cold evening. When I started driving back to camp, the thermometer in the car read -7 degrees.

The 5D Mark II is still a formidable imaging machine. I look forward to going back this winter (only a couple of months away) with the 5D Mark III and my RZ67.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
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A lenticular cloud adorns the sky with Mount Cook and the Southern Alps in the background, as witnessed from the eastern shores of Lake Pukaki, on a mid-spring afternoon.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM
1/250s f/8 at 98.0mm iso100

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At the crack of dawn, we were at one of Iceland's most incredible locations - Jökulsárlón, literally- glacier lagoon. I have never seen such an amazing place, and by luck, it was a clear morning, allowing the dormant volcano of Öræfajökull to recieve a wonderful alpine glow under the white moon.
This image was the one of the first I shot there, and the magical light wasn't at its peak yet. But the surreal combination of blue and pink is still embedded deep in my mind.
A lineup of beautiful glaciers was right on the lagoon's bank, as if they had decided to join us in watching the magic unravel.

If you'd like to experience and shoot this magical location, among many other incredible icy sceneries, you're welcome to join my upcoming 'Land of Ice' Iceland winter workshop taking place next January. The workshop is co-guided by renowned local Icelandic mountaineer and pro photographer Skarphedinn Thrainsson, and it will bring you to the most amazing locations for landscape photography in south Iceland.
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As the Alpine glow over Jökulsárlón strengthened, I noticed this icesheet coating the lagoon's water. As the water was costantly moving, it was quite tricky to get a shot without motion blur. In the end, I got one.

If you'd like to experience and shoot these amazing sceneries, along with many other incredible icy landscapes, and do so under my dedicated guidance, you're welcome to join my upcoming 'Land of Ice' Iceland winter workshop taking place January 2013. The workshop is co-guided by renowned local Icelandic mountaineer and pro photographer Skarphedinn Thrainsson, and it will bring you to the most amazing locations for landscape photography in south Iceland. Please click the link for more details, and contact me with any questions about the workshop.

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Jökulsárlón, Iceland

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The dead Sea never ceases to amaze, and it enthralled us again this morning. Constant changes in water level caused the creation of countless salt spikes, and the colored sunrise clouds reflected in the small pools in the area complemented the salty scape perfectly.

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SWITZERLAND, Bernina

After numerous arduous hikes during the last 4 weeks I'm proud to present a lot of new work. I traveled through the Eastern Alps: from Switzerland to South Tyrol and the Dolomites to Slovenia. I'll upload them here on DA during the next days. The first part of the series shows the Swiss canton Graubünden where I shot Bergell, Val Roseg and Val Bernina. English descriptions and more shoots will follow soon!



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This photograph shows the Mont Blanc Massif in the last glow of the setting sun and the impressive Auigelle Verte right in the middle of the picture. The appearing pattern of meltwater streams that drain into lakes on the valley floor is the result of fresh snowfalls over the past few days.

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SWITZERLAND, Bernina

After numerous arduous hikes during the last 4 weeks I'm proud to present a lot of new work. I traveled through the Eastern Alps: from Switzerland to South Tyrol and the Dolomites to Slovenia. I'll upload them here on DA during the next days. The first part of the series shows the Swiss canton Graubünden where I shot Bergell, Val Roseg and Val Bernina. English descriptions and more shoots will follow soon!



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After a 10 hour drive from south eastern Iceland through rain, snow, hail and sunshine, we finally arrived at Godafoss in the north. Sitting down to a well earned dinner, I saw that we were going to have a great sunset above the falls, so I ran the 10 minutes from the hotel to set up my tripod and camera.
It was a beautiful evening, and surprisingly I had the spot to myself. The only problem was the spray, but it was easy enough to shoot 2 second exposures.

Sunset at the lagoon of Jokulsarlon. The huge Vatnajökull glacier (the biggest icecap outside of the two poles) is in the background, and a branch of it comes down the valley here to the lagoon where icebergs calve off, float across the lagoon, and then eventually out to sea.
It's an amazing amazing place, I've never seen anything like it in my life. The sound of the ice creaking is astonishing.
The ice here is 1000 years old, apparently.

Almost never on DA anymore...infact, outside of my blog, I rarely submit work anywhere on the internet anymore.

Apologies for that, DA is the place that made me and shaped me as a photographer, and it's a shame that now my photography has grown into a profession I simply don't really have time to participate in the community here

Anywhere, here's a recent shot from on a workshop I led on Saturday evening.
We came across a couple of hundred percebes (goose neck barnacles) clinging to a plastic bottle.
There were a couple of kilos here....and they can sell for around €80 per kilo.
We left them in the ocean.

Gallows Beach - Coffs Harbour - Mid North Coast - NSW, Australia.

High pressure system hits the Coffs Coast, creating perfect conditions for some moody seascapes on sunset.

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1/1/2013 - My first seascape photo outing in forever, it's been well over 4 months since I took any coastal photos. It sure as hell felt great to get back out there doing what I first fell in love with when I picked up the camera.
Emerald Beach - Mid North Coast - New South Wales, Australia.

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Glorious moonrise over the Pacific Ocean off Emerald Beach Headland - Mid North Coast - NSW, Australia.

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Nuit sans fin sur Jökulsárlón

Andorra - Pyrénées

Zabriskie Point / CA

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Home for the night at 800m, not far below Snowdon's summit, which was the morning's task. Our walk up to this point was shrouded in mist and, in sub zero temperatures, it coated the grasses in a fine white ice. We actually didnt bring enough water with us, so we cooked our dinner in water from the pool!

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"Run Alex" came the shout from Emma, just 500m away from Caseg Fraith. I was already on my way. The instant I saw the light on the hills behind I started sprinting uphill with all the camping gear and food for 2 days still on my back! I always find an extra burst of energy when time is of the essence and this was certainly one of those times. Fortunately I was familiar with the location and as the weather went into 'spectacular mode' I was able to take a couple of shots.

It's easy to forget that I snapped a tripod leg in the process, but I don't regret it at all!