6 Nights / 7 Days : Mon 11 July – Sun 17 August 2025
This tour is timed around capturing the beauty of the South Island at it’s wonderful winter best. Plenty of snow and amazing mid winter light make this a magical South Island Photography Tour.
Join us as we explore the lakes and mountains of the amazing Mackenzie and Canterbury regions during the winter season. There is so much to discover on this tour and we get to some pretty incredible photo locations to take advantage of the mid winter conditions.
The stunning scenery of South Island is famous the world over and we get you to the best of it on this amazing Photography Tour.
The South Island is an absolute heaven for any landscape photographer and we have designed this tour to capture the best of it. With hands on tuition and such epic scenery this is an experience that will inspire your landscape photography like no other.
Our Photography Tours are an immersive hands on experience where you will be putting your newly acquired knowledge to use in-the-field. We believe in giving you sound knowledge and developing new skills in landscape photography, and then putting these to practice in some of the best landscapes in the world.
Depart and finish Queenstown
During this photography tour we are up and on location before dawn and aim to stay out till after sunset – taking advantage of what can often be magical dawn and dusk light. We never rush locations and make sure that everyone is capturing the images they want. Often we are the only people at these amazing locations.
We believe in giving you sound knowledge and developing new skills in landscape photography, and then putting these to practice in some of New Zealand’s best landscapes.
The South Island is renowned for it’s incredible scenery and this photography tour has been designed to get you to some of the best of it. We photograph the Southern Alps, stunning high country lakes, ageless forests and wild waterfalls.
Over this tour our photography will include:
The precise order of locations we visit is determined by the conditions – we allow for flexibility in our schedule and aim to be in the best locations at the right time. We have learnt that sometimes the best photographs are captured when you ‘follow the light’.
We begin by settling into Twizel for two nights nights. We will be photographing Mt Cook and the Southern Alps from within the Tasman Valley at sunset and sunrise. We also discover the captivating charm of Lake Ohau, the Ahuriri Valley and other amazing locations brought alive in magical winter light.
Alongside the big-shots there is also the opportunity for us to capture the subtle essence of the Mackenzie Region and surrounding district. There are so many gems around this area we really are spoiled for choice.
We then set off for the Ashburton Lakes for some backcountry adventure in some serious scenery. Located in the back country of Canterbury this raw and largely untouched landscape is simply stunning and we will explore and photograph the best of it.
The Southern Alps are the backdrop to the stunning lakes which we will be photographing. However we will also venture further into the vast back country to some high country stations and locations of very famous movies.
This is a very special region and a landscape photographers dream.
On day five we travel to Mt Cook Village where we spend the next two days up and close with Mt Cook / Aoraki. There are many options available to us including Lake Tasman, where you can capture the mesmerising sight of icebergs adrift in the glacial lake, back-dropped by the amazing Southern Alp.
Also we will photograph Hooker Lake at sunset and if conditions allow we will stay on to capture astro photographs in this incredible location.
