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April 4, 2009
As mentioned in an earlier post we spent some time at the Paparoa National Park in the West Coast of NZ. My starting point was Punakaiki, known by tourists for its Pancake Rocks, which is as far as I got last year before returning to Christchurch.
This trip I gave myself more time by staying near the park so that I could explore the national park by exploring some of the walks along the rivers that had been recently constructed by the Department of Conservation. I was checking out the walks to see whether it would be possible to work in the park with a Rollei SL66 on a tripod. What was available behind the coastal strip and how accessible was it?
Craig Potton had explored the park when working as a ranger there, and he published this work as Images from a Limestone Landscape around 1987. How easy would it be for me was the motivation.
Some spots were very accessible--eg., the Truman Track and five minutes to a wonderful place to photograph--sandstone cliffs on the beach. If you go at low tide and head around the rock to the north there's some excellent rock formations.
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Gary
check out the work of Andris Apse --a wilderness photographer who lives in Westland, New Zealand. The work is quality wilderness photography.