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Fairy lands part II - New Zealand part VIII

Thursday, 9 January 2020

Finally I managed to process all my New Zealand images, which only took me nine months ;P So, it's time again to share some of them and after my little Recap 2019 I'll continue with the second set of Fiordland pictures. The Fiordland National Park was established back in 1952 and it's New Zealand's largest national park stretching over an area of 12,500 km². This fantastic place is one of the areas with the highest rainfalls on earth which are responsible for the mesmerizing evergreen flora containing about 700 species which can only be found there. But beside the obvious amazing habitat of rainforests and mountains on land, the park also implicates ten marine reserves which cover 100 km² of inner fiord marine habitat. Hope you'll enjoy the images. Cheers.

Recap 2019

Thursday, 2 January 2020

As 2019 came to an end it's time again for a little recap of the last twelve months. Since this was our first full year as parents, I guess it's needless to say, that we had a quite exciting time with countless enriching moments, new experiences and challenges. And beside that this was also my first full year as a professional nature photographer. Certainly the most exciting time and my most productive period when it comes to photography was our stay in New Zealand at the beginning of the year. But, of course, due to our son and also due to my new profession, I couldn't go out just shooting for my own as often as I did the years before. So, my photographic output mainly contains images of New Zealand and images I took during workshops or on assignment. The pictures you can see below are just a few of my personal favorites of 2019. I mixed up the chronological order and again you'll find some technical information for each picture.

Fairy lands part I - New Zealand part VII

Saturday, 21 December 2019

As for me, probably the number one reason for travelling to New Zealand (and actually to travel the world in general) are temperate rainforests. And maybe the number one location to experience these forests is New Zealand's Fiordland National Park. Of course, there are also lots of other locations on this planet where rainforests like these can be found, like the Pacific Northwest for example, but what makes the forests in New Zealand even a little bit more special are the massive tree ferns, which can grow up to 20 meters. There are eight different species of tree ferns in New Zealand, and 200 native fern species all in all. But, of course, this national park offers a lot more mesmerizing treasures and habitats. Beside the forests this terrain is mainly shaped by the countless steep fiords, mountains and the enormous rainfalls. If there is no rain on four consecutive days in the national park, they speak of a drought. And there are no better conditions than rain, to expereince a place like this. So I was really eager to go there once more after our first visit in 2011. Because we were travelling with our six months old son, we only did rather moderate day hikes, but nevertheless we discovered lots of new breathtaking areas, visited a few already known ones and finally spent a week out in the park.

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