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YEAR IN REVIEW: LANDSCAPE

Part 1 in the trilogy of 2019

By Blackaptur Photography

December 26^th, 2019

Year in review: A Trilogy.

This time of year is generally either full of overly-christmasy people listening to Michael Buble or people making bad jokes along the lines of "See you next year.....!" Its also a time to reflect, and look back - but not to spend to long doing that - whats the point? A new year, and a new decade - is upon us!

Last year, I did one giant "Best of 18" post but chances are most of you got halfway through and clicked the little red X. This time around, you'll be getting it in three categories - Landscape, Biking and Lifestyle. Enjoy (or not).

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The year kicked off with a bang, the highlight being a short hike up to Coopers Knob at the end of January, the full story can be found here: https://blog.blackapturphotography.co.nz/coopers-knob

February brought some adventures around the South Island and started with this little South Island Robin here, shot at the Mount White Station.

2019 Was definitely the year that a lot more effort went into getting some half-decent shots - and involved more than a few late night missions into mountains...! These were shot around 9-11pm in the Cragieburn/Porters Pass area - using both my camera and drone.

Craigieburn Forest park providing the goods, yet again!

Things now take a pretty dramatic turn from summer to winter:

After the first dump of Winter (Autumn?!?) I headed to Lake Selfe with reflections and mountains in mind - this certainly did not disappoint

The full story can be found here: https://blog.blackapturphotography.co.nz/overexposed

Fast forward to August, I decided to chuck the drone up above the nearby Waimakariri River while there was still some snow on the mountain range behind it...

Welcome to Tekapo, home of the clearest skies in the world and a huge turquoise lake.... not so in Winter! taking on a rather bleak and moody look, it was cool to capture some raw, albeit cold, moments of nature

At some point we all fall into the rut of becoming a 'fair weather photographer' when in fact cold and rainy days produce the best shots! Shot once again in the Porters Pass/Cragieburn area - shortly after the 300ha Porters Fire...

{Making most of the last of daylight savings producing after-work golden hour}

~ The West Coast ~

A trip over to the West Coast providing some of the most stunning scenery I have seen for this year by far!

Christchurch rounding 2019 out with a stunner of a sunset

Some say that the unusually colourful in both the east and the west was due to the Australian bushfires - shot at New Brighton Beach...

Footnotes

If anyone made it this far, congratulations - now go and give your mouse scroll a break - and thanks to all 100 or so subscribers who have stuck with me!

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FootNotes

If anyone made it this far, congratulations - now go and give your mouse scroll a break - and thanks to all 100 or so subscribers who have stuck with me!