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Astrophotography

Dark skies on long exposures — the slowest photography there is.

The Milky Way over Lake Tekapo and the Church of the Good Shepherd, inside the Aoraki Mackenzie Dark Sky Reserve, plus a low full moon and a camp under the stars.

  1. Night photograph of the small stone Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo, lit low against a deep green-blue sky filled with stars, tussock grass and a low stone wall in the foreground.

    The Church of the Good Shepherd

  2. Night photograph of the Milky Way's bright core rising diagonally above the stone Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo, golden tussock and a low stone wall lit in the foreground.

    Core

  3. The small stone Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo at night, its doorway glowing warm, under a sky dense with stars and the bright band of the Milky Way rising behind it, tussock grass and stone walls in the foreground and snow-dusted hills along the horizon.

    The Good Shepherd, Under the Milky Way

  4. A full moon glowing orange low in a deep blue sky above a dark ridge of farmland, a line of fence posts just visible along the crest and the ground below in near-total shadow.

    Full Moon, Low

  5. Yellow-lit geodesic dome tents and red expedition tents on snow at night, glowing from within beneath a dense field of stars and dark mountains.

    Camp, and Everything Above It