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New Zealand galleries completed

May 05, 2020

When I returned in mid-November from 6 weeks photographing in New Zealand I set myself the target of completing the NZ galleries on my website before the next trip abroad (to Slovenia shooting bears, birds and botany, with just a camera, of course). I should have been on the plane at this very moment! But Covid-19 knew better, and the Slovenia trip is rescheduled for next May. Let's hope we are all safely out of lockdown by then... Anyway, I finished the NZ galleries yesterday - 2001 images - and here are a few samplers.

Sunlit leaves in native forest understorey, Kapiti Island Nature Reserve, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand

2:1 image of Ben Ohau Range from the SE at sunrise, Twizel, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

Iridescent plumage of the endemic Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae), Kapiti Island, North Island, New Zealand

Endemic to New Zealand. Tui in Maori. Also known as Parson Bird.

Yellow-Eyed Penguin (Megadyptes antipodes), Otago Peninsula, Dunedin, New Zealand

Hoiho in Maori. A nationally-endangered endemic species

Common (or Atlantic) Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), Doubtful Sound, Fiordland National Park, Southland, South Island, New Zealand

Lake Pukaki looking north-east, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand