AORAKI ON FIRE

NEW ZEALAND LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER

One of the most unusual scenes I have ever come across in all my photography missions!

After an all nighter with Billy Thomas Wilson-Nunweek and travelling through the interior of the South Island we headed to Mt Cook for sunrise when we came across, what initially appeared like an out-of-control forest fire! So shocked and concerned I rang 111 and after being passed through to the Fire Service was told it was a "controlled burn off"... to which I replied: "this is the most insane out of control controlled burn off I have ever seen"!

So with that, we saddled up and went on our way, where we both went on to shoot some of our favourite images to date of the heart and soul of Aotearoa New Zealand.