Shadow & Shade - Photography by Larryn Rae

A singular and symmetrical snow capped peak, emerging from a bed of clouds like a floating island.

Mount Taranaki; my childhood backyard. Growing up in such an awe-inspiring setting like New Plymouth gave me an appreciation for beautiful locations and the unique environments that make New Zealand the wonder that it is. After hiking Mount Taranaki and wandering the rugged coastline with my camera in hand, I knew I wanted to capture beautiful places all over the world.

With a decade of world travel and photography experience, I’ve come to realise that truly remarkable landscapes are more than just photogenic geological structures. Their moods shift with the weather, their faces change in the shadows, and while they dance in daylight, they never lay dormant at night.

I’ve fallen in love with the way mountains come alive under the Milky Way, the moment the sun and ocean melt together, the haunting comfort of fog banks lighting up as they envelope a city skyline and the way the stars blur as the world twirls beneath them. The way the incredible waves and pillars of there aurora dance across the night sky.

It’s all lead me to my passion to capture more of these fleeting moments of time in nature, and in the process, create portraits of natures’ true essence.

www.nzphototrips.com

Larryn Rae

Awards & Accomplishments

Co - Founded NZ Photo Trips Photography Workshops & Tours.
Top 25, Capture the Atlas, Milky-way Photographer of the Year, 2023

2nd Place, Nightscape, Skywatcher Australia Photography Competition 2022
1st Place, Nightscape, ’Save a Star’ International Astrophotography Competition 2021
3rd Place, Aurora, Royal Museums Greenwich International Astrophotography Competition 2021
Finalist, Aerial, New Zealand Geographic Photography Competition 2021
National Geographic Published Photographer 2021
Top 25, Capture the Atlas, Milky-way Photographer of the Year, 2021
Top 25, Capture the Atlas, Aurora Photographer of the Year, 2021
2nd Place, Nightscape, New Zealand Astrophotography Competition 2021
2nd Place, Nightscape, Skywatcher Australia Photography Competition 2021
Highly Commended, Nightscape, New Zealand Astrophotography Competition 2020
Finalist, Aerial, New Zealand Geographic Photography Competition 2020
Highly Commended, New Zealand Astrophotography Competition 2020
Highly Commended, New Zealand Astrophotography Competition 2019
Book Cover Image, “Getting Lost” - New Zealand Roadtrips, Penguin Publishing 2019
Aurora Australis, captured from Auckland 2017
Red Sprite image, 1st image ever seen in New Zealand 2017
2nd Place New Zealand D-Photo Landscape Photography Competition 2017