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A few New Zealand images
Hi all,
Looking at the great images of New Zealand being posted by Humayun and Matt got me looking back through my old NZ photos, and so I thought I'd post a few of mine as well. My wife and I lived in Auckland for nearly 3 years between 1997 and 1999, so we had lots of opportunities to explore the place.
Here are a few of my favourites. All were taken with my old Pentax MZ5 SLR, using Fijichrome Velvia transparency film, and the slides were subsequently scanned. The photos are:
(1) Dawn light on the 3 big volcanoes in the centre of the North Island, looking across Lake Taupo;
(2) A view of the 2 tallest mountains in NZ, Mt Cook and Mt Tasman, taken from the flight deck of a Boeing 737 on route from Auckland to Queenstown while chatting to the pilot. You can't do that anymore!
(3) Walter Peak from Queenstown;
(4) The Routeburn River, near the start of the Routeburn track. I didn't do the whole walk, but did spend a few hours along the first few km of the walk;
(5) Milford Sound. I like this image because it really shows the scale of the place.
Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Stephen
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