Author: Chris Bing

4 November 2024

Another South Island New Zealand Road trip. Surprisingly the images are a lot different to my previous road trip. Maybe there were less sheep on this visit. Baaah. And I wasn’t lonely as I has my wife Sally with me. These photos are interesting in that I normally avoid what’s in the current photograph. Its a bit like my wine drinking habits. My favourite and tiring expression is “I don’t normally drink…..(add Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc , Rosie, Sparkling and a few more) but.…….(I bought one for you to try)

Lake Matheson I have only briefly visited pre covid and it was a windy cloudy day. That was the day I took the Fox Glacier photos. I try to avoid the classic image of Lake Matheson that would do a postcard or biscuit tin proud . Those reflections….. here’s a google screenshot. Most people are familiar with these images because that’s how we sell New Zealand.

However my photograph of the Lake would do a You Tuber landscape photographer proud when he or she you goes on about having a foreground in the shot. Actually the walk around the lake was wonderful and well worth it.

Speaking of reflections, I don’t normally do reflections but……..

The vertical format doesn’t normally work for landscapes, but

There is a power line running across the image. Normally this would make me discard the image for publishing but…….. When I first saw the image it looked rather surreal. That powerline looked like the horizon.

I don’t normally do sunsets as they been corny and a cliche. But that jet stream appealed to me. It brought back memories of the Star Trek movie “First Contact” when humans managed to achieve warp one (exceed the speed of light) and managed to attract a Vulcan spaceship that just happened to be passing by this “primitive” planet. It made me watch the movie again on my Laser Disc. I have since ordered the Blu- ray.

“Space the Final Frontier”