Road

Touit 32/1.8 @f5.6, morning; NEX 6 Road cutting through primary rainforest; foothills of Southern Alps NZ Maori used to walk hundreds of miles through the forest even with children (who didn’t suffer from http://tinyurl.com/loneliness-epidemic), guided by gullies, streams and hills. It can get chilly when getting over the passes. We just spent the night at one, it was a few degrees above zero (and very wet).

Oystercatchers ; Coromandel

70-300 L IS @300mm, f5.6; NEX 6

Village of Utne

Touit 32 @f7.1, ancient settlement, Hordaland; NEX 6

Haymaking

Touit 32 @f8, Oyadalen Saddle; NEX 6

Thaw

70-300 L @170mm, f7.1, Hardangervidda; NEX 6

Ardalsvatnet

Touit 32 @f8, NEX 6

Vertebra Gate

Touit 32 @f6.3, South Island NZ NEX 6

Kotuku

Canon 70-300 L @277mm, f5.6, Okarito Lagoon NEX 6; synonymous meaning for high-mindedness, rareness and beauty

Light Play

Touit 32 @f3.2, ISO 800, South Moravia; NEX 6

Crosses

Touit 32 @f2.2, South Moravia; NEX 6

Pūkeko

70-300 L IS @300mm, f5.6, ISO 800, Purple Swamphen, cropped (equiv. almost to 1 inch sensor), NEX 6 A native bird adapted very well to the changes humans brought to New Zealand's environment. Timid and nervous, it lacks inquisitive nature towards the human of other birds on the islands.

Coromandel

70-300 L IS @78mm, f5.6; NEX 6

Tree

Touit 32 @f5.6, ISO 400, South Moravia; NEX 6

Te Awa Wakatipu

70-300 L IS @300mm, f5.6, Dart River entering Lake Wakatipu NEX 6

Weheka River

Touit 32 @f7.1, La Perouse Glacier on the left; NEX 6

Window ll

Canon 70-300 L @76mm, f5.6, swamp forest, West Coast; NEX 6

Karuhiruhi

Canon 70-300 L @300mm, f5.6, Coromandel western shores NEX 6, moderate crop

Passenger

Sigma 60/2.8 A @f2.8; NEX 6

The Bee

Sigma 60/2.8 A @f2.8, 400 ISO, Wild Rose ancient chalk grasslands, North Downs; NEX 6

Oystercatchers ; Dawn

70-300 L IS @300mm, f5.6, ISO 800 Wainui Estuary; NEX 6 Some will like to know that no cloning was applied.

Into the Bloom

Touit 32 @f2.5, Welsh Poppy (aurantiaca) Surrey Woodland; NEX 6

Kormorant

70-300 L IS @300mm, f5.6, Whataroa River; NEX 6 Little pied cormorant

Mahitahi River

Touit 32 @f8, side countre-jour; NEX 6