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Aerial of a curved white-sand bay with turquoise shallows, bush-covered headlands either side and a scatter of houses set back from the beach.

The Bay, Northland

Northland, New Zealand · December 2016

DJI Zenmuse X5, 15 millimetres, f 3.5, 1/8197 of a second, ISO 800

Green all the way down to the sand.

Northland does this thing where the bush comes all the way down to the sand with no transition — no dunes, no scrub, just green and then beach and then that colour the water goes when the bottom is clean. Flown late in the afternoon when the light had stopped being harsh about it.