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View across Lake Pukaki at dusk from low over the water, the lake a deep teal grading to pale pink where it mirrors the sky, a band of snow-covered mountains along the far shore with Aoraki rising at their centre, and the sky a smooth gradient of peach, pink and lilac.

Pukaki in Two Colours

Lake Pukaki, New Zealand · September 2020

DJI Mavic Air 2, 5 millimetres, f 2.8, 1/15 of a second, ISO 200

Two colours, and a mountain between them.

The drone up over the lake at the end of the day, with the sky doing a gradient no screen quite reproduces and the water answering it in teal. Aoraki sits in the middle of the range, small at this distance and unmistakable. Nothing in the frame is sharp-edged except the mountains, which is why it reads as a colour field first and a landscape second.

Part of The Southern Alps, a series.