
Liebig Range near Aoraki Mt Cook, the rain was falling heavily on the mountains nearby and the floods were quickly building up. Leaving the valley and the bad weather, a classic view of Lake Pukaki.

I spent eight days in New Zealand over Christmas, a short but fantastic trip around the South Island. New Zealand, or Aotearoa in Maori (the land of the long white cloud), is a paradise for landscape photographers; I could have easily staid there for a couple of months. This is the first photo, looking at...