SunShapes The deep, vibrant, distance of a turbulent sunset. - #Twizel, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul. #Sunset #Clouds #Photography #Zooooom #EastCoastKin #Colours

The One That Went All Night It's been a while since I've had clear skies and a nice aurora, so here's a throwback to January. Right before dawn, when the rising sun meets the dancing lady. - #Twizel #NewZealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Aurora #Bucketlist #EastCoastKin #Scape

Our Hurtling World The stars, falling like rain. Oh dear, that's not good, is it? 13 seconds at 200 mm zoom will do that :) - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #StarTrails #Telephoto #Astro #Stunday #EastCoastKin #PureNZ

Watching the World I thought I was done with this set, but I clicked on this one accidentally, and went, "You know, I rather like that!"... And so here it is! :) - #Twizel #NewZealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Canal #Sunrise #Seagull #Landscape #Scape #EastCoastKin #PureNZ

The Labyrinth You remind me of the babe, Hoodoo. - #BryceCanyon, #USA - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #FornPartsFridays #Scape #Landscape #EastCoastKin #RoadTrip #NationalPark #BucketList #Travel

Hanging Out Me and my seagull friend over there, just sitting by the canal, watching the sun come up. It's a good way to start the day. - #Twizel, #NewZealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Canal #Sunrise #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Photography #ECK #Scape #PureNz #Travel

Flight of Fancy I'm always looking at the clouds, and their patterns. I came around a corner, saw this formation and was immediately indicating to pull over. Do you see what I see? - #LindisPass, #NewZealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Clouds #Tussocks #PureNz #ECK #Landscape

Back in the Saddle Cruising up to the Lindis Pass on a cold wintery day. - #LindisPass, #NewZealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Winter #Roadtrip #PureNZ #Snow #EastCoastKin

After the Snow Clearing skies let a little bit of light in through through the clouds that were still undecided whether they had a little more snow in them or not! _ #Twizel, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Winter #Snow #Storm #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #Art

Winter in the Lindis Fresh snow brings a fresh perspective to a favourite vista. - #LindisPass, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Winter #Snow #PureNz #RealMiddleEarth #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Landscape #Photography #Roadtrip

Hanging in the Air ..in exactly the way that bricks don't. I'm never quite sure that Lenticulars understand the laws of physics! (with thanks to Douglas Adams for one of my favourite lines.) - #Twizel, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Sunrise #Stunday #Scape #PureNZ

A New Day A burst of delicate pastels to greet a new day. - #Twizel, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul. #Sunrise #Lenticular #Cloudscape #Landscape #Photography #RealMiddleEarth #PureNz #Scape #EastCoastKin #Bucketlist

Fresh-baked Mountains Complete with freshly sprinkled Icing sugar. Just delicious! - #Twizel, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Sunrise #Snow #Mountains #Landscape #Photography #RealMiddleEarth #Scape #EastCoastKin #PureNZ #Travel

Re-entry I love how the mind plays tricks on you when you're looking at clouds. Distance, perspective, proportion, all get twisted as we try to make sense of the shapes before us. Maybe that's why I like them so much. - #Twizel #NewZealand "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Sunset #ECK

Salamander Skies Skyfire tonight, standing in the heatless blast of snow-fuelled winter winds. Yeah, that was a cold shoot. But the end result? I'm digging it. - #Twizel, #NewZealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Sunset #Cloudscape #Skyfire #RealMiddleEarth #PureNZ #EastCoastKin

Flight of the Squawks A couple of inquisitive seagulls coming over to see who's mad enough to be out at this hour of the morning, and say Hi. - #Twizel, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Sunrise #Morning #BirdPhotography #EastCoastKin #Scape #RealMiddleEarth #PureNZ

Omens Far off on the horizon, a gigantic lurking lenticular hangs in an unnatural fashion. A sign? An omen? Or perhaps a harbinger... You decide. - #Twizel, #NewZealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Cloudscape #Canal #Sunrise #PureNz #Stunday #EastCoastKin #Omen #Lenticular

Pair o' Gulls, Lost. These two swooped in low, and asked for directions to Milton. I tried to explain it's south of Dunedin, down Highway One - but they told me to go to h*ll and flew off in disgust! Tourists! - #Twizel "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Scape #EastCoastKin #Stunday

The First Thin Light of Dawn Weak light slipping down the snow, The hindering shadows slowly revealing a pristine beauty of soft curves. - #Twizel, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Sunrise #Mountain #Monochrome #Scape #Landscape #Photography #PureNZ #EastCoastKin

Smoke on the Water ...Moonset in the sky. Tonight's plan to capture the moon was hampered by smoke drifting across my view - but later, I found the smoke had picked up a lot of the ambient light, giving this subdued but kinda cool shot. I kinda like it - what do you think? 1/2 #Moonset #Scape

Hot Buttered Sunrise The sunrise this morning was hampered by low lying clouds to the East... So I found the beauty there, instead! - #Twizel #NewZealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Sunrise #Golds #Winter #LongExposure #Landscape #Photography #Art #EastCoastKin #Scape #PureNZ

Lenticular Fleet A couple of years ago, I was lucky to spot this entire fleet of Lenticulars moving across the lake. What an amazing sight that was! - #LakePukaki, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Lake #PureNZ #Lenticular #Cloudscape #Landscape #EastCoastKin #Travel

Molten Gold After yesterday's post I was asked what the most vivid cloudscape I've captured looked like. So let's dig through the archives... This was 2014, but it was the first that sprang to mind. - Twizel, New Zealand - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Sunset #Scape #EastCoastKin

My Love is Exceedingly Vivid My love is exceedingly vivid Red-eyed and fevered with the hum of the miles Distance and longing, my thoughts do provide Should I rest for a while at the side? - Robert Plant #Twizel, #NewZealand "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." - Me #Scape #Stunday

Loch Cameron Sunset A warmer evening, and one where I could see the sky... It is still blue out there in other parts of the world, right? LOL - #Twizel, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Sunset #Scape #GoldenHour #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #Stunday #PureNZ

Icebreaker Looking out across a frozen Lake Michigan. It was really unnerving to see these sheets of ice in constant, grinding motion. And the sound! :o - #LakeMichigan, #USA - For #FornPartsFridays. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Scape #EastCoastKin #Winter #Ice #Subzero #Epic

Sculptures of Storm Some of the twisted and surreal sculptures created by the icy artistry of Lake Michigan, when it puts its mind to expression. But, is it really surreal, when it's real and natural? - #StJo, #Michigan, #USA "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #Winter #Scape #Lighthouse

Perfectly Pink A full moon, a fresh fall of snow, and a perfectly timed gap in the clouds allowing the most perfectly pink blink-and-you miss-it sunset ever. - #Ohau, #NewZealand. - "Look with your eyes. See with your Soul." #FullMoon #Winter #Sunset #Snow #Scape #Twilight #EastCoastKin #Twizel

A Winter's Postcard I am of Winter's Descent Of Ice, and blinding snow, and land that crackles as you walk. I am of the White Lands, My thunder is of angry snow, unleashed, unbound, unchained, hurtling down the mountain. - #Twizel, #NewZealand. - #Winter #Frost #EastCoastKin #Landscape #PureNZ

A Touch of Frost Hoar frost coated trees on the day for the thaw. My body made the snow-hunting decision for me... "Leave the house? Mate, you're so crook you're not leaving the bed.." At least I feel better enough tonight to quickly edit and post this! - Twizel New Zealand #Frost #EastCoastKin