We spent two months driving the length of New Zealand’s South Island, from the ferry dock at Picton right down to the bottom of the Catlins, in late autumn. I’ve worked as a travel photographer since 2010, and I shot pretty much all of it myself. If you just want the shortlist: Milford Sound, Aoraki/Mount […]
Archives for September 2011
The Best Lord of the Rings Filming Locations in New Zealand
The entire Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, as imagined by Peter Jackson, is a highly effective tourism advert for New Zealand. Having seen all the films and being a bit of a Tolkien fan, it was inevitable that New Zealand would make it onto my list of places I must visit. And so it […]
Highlights of New Zealand’s North Island: 12 Places Worth Your Time
I spent a year living in New Zealand, and I still think the North Island deserves far more time than most visitors give it. Everyone knows the South Island is the pretty one. So people land in Auckland, drive to Rotorua for a day of geothermal sightseeing, and hurry south to the ferry, past volcanoes, […]