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Lake Pukaki View

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 120 mm, 1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 64

We’d left Mount Cook and were driving back down along Lake Pukaki and around the bottom of the lake to head towards Lake Tekapo where we’d be staying the night

The view from the Lake Pukaki Viewpoint

Looking along the length of the lake towards Mount Cook and the classic snow capped mountain range (even in summer)

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Tasman Valley Views

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 32 mm, 1/40 sec at f/8, ISO 64 x 4 Frames

Another handheld stitched panorama (this one only four (4) frames). This time looking down the valley as you start to head down the steep steps back towards the car park. The view this side still quite spectacular

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Tasman Glacier

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 85 mm, 1/160 sec at f/8, ISO 64

A better view of the Tasman Glacier from the Tasman Lake Viewpoint

Hard to believe that it is New Zealand’s largest glacier. The Tasman Glacier is over 25km in length, up to 4km’s wide, and at its thickest part, 600 meters deep. That’s some serious amount of ice (unfortunately covered in a lot of dirt so only the front edge where it breaks off into the lake is immediately recognisable)

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Tasman View

DJI Mini 3 Pro FC3582 + 6.7 mm f/1.7 @ 6.72 mm, 1/1000 sec at f/1.7, ISO 100

The track over on the right which winds it’s way up and over the top of the ridge is the Tasman Lake viewpoint trail. It’s steep and quite a climb but the view is amazing

You also get a good view of Tasman Glacier on the other side of the lake. Which you can also see the front edge of here just above the waterline. Unfortunately it is apparently retreating quite rapidly. The front face of the glacier was apparently a number of kilometres closer to the viewpoint only a couple decades ago

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Afterburn

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 14-30mm f/4 S @ 20.5 mm, 2 sec at f/13, ISO 64

Most of the red action on the top of the mountains was actually behind me. So I had to make a quick dash along the shoreline to where the lake meets the river. Fumble together a quick composition to include some of the mountains and take a shot. Alas I missed the best of it and I only got two frames in before the redness disappeared