New Zealand Landscape Photography

New Zealand was the last significant landmass on Earth to be settled by humans, and that relative isolation has preserved landscapes of extraordinary drama and diversity across two compact islands. The country packs an almost implausible variety of scenery into a small area. These photographs include the mirror-still lakes and snow-capped peaks of Fiordland reachable by helicopter, to the assault of color from lupine in the foreground of Lake Tekapo, to the glacier-fed waters leading to Mount Aoraki. New Zealand's clean air and rapidly shifting weather systems produce light of remarkable clarity and intensity.