Mt Cook Posters and Art Prints

My second accidental Christmas in New Zealand was celebrated in and around Mt Cook village. We started things off with a quick visit to Tasman Glacier view point. Considering I thought it would just be a flat braided river with a bit of snow in the distance I was totally blown away by the view! This is painted hiding under a rock for shade while having good chats with a DOC worker.

Looking across Lake Pukaki to Aoraki/Mt Cook in New Zealand. Original RAW image processed by Adone Raw and Photoshop and then converted to B&W with NIK plug in. Red filter to darken blue sky.

Mount Prospect (Mt. Prospect) IL

Star trails over Mt Cook National Park, New Zealand.

Dying moments of a glacial iceberg.

If you're ever in Mt Cook/Aoraki Village, get up to Mueller Hut! It's the most dramatic out of this world location that I've hiked to yet. If you sit still long enough in the summer you'll catch bits of the ice shelf falling.

A vector illustration in the style of a retro poster, this is Mueller Hut, in Mount Cook / Aoraki national park, New Zealand. The text read 1800m, this is the altitude of this alpine hut.

A vector illustration in the style of a retro poster, this is Mueller Hut, in Mount Cook / Aoraki national park, New Zealand. There are Kea, birds standing around the alpine, mountain Hut.

Combined images - the Milky Way Galaxy is a stitch of six overlapping photos. This was then resized and replaced the sky of Aoraki/Mt Cook. The latter was darkened to make it look like night. This is a creative work, and it would never appear like this in real life Sony A6300, 25 second exposures for night sky.

Along the trail from Mt Cook Alpine Village to the Hooker Glacier. Aoraki/Mt Cook in the background. South Island, New Zealand. August 22, 2014 Canon EOS 550D, ISO 200, f/11, 1/500 sec, 23 mm

This memorial commemorates more than 100 climbers who have died in the New Zealand Aoraki/Mt Cook area in the past. It is a fitting reminder of the dangers of mountain climbing. This is one of many photos taken on our truly amazing 6 hour walk up the Hooker Valley from the Mt Cook centre to Hooker Lake and Glacier. That walk was for me about the most spectacular scenery that I have ever seen, outranking that of what I saw in Canada. The memorial is close to the start of the walk. The temperature may have been zero or below during the walk, but with the cloudless blue sky, we soon got very hot and had to strip off layers. 16 August, 2014 Canon EOS 550D, ISO 100, f/11, 1/250 sec, 123 mm

Hooker Lake lies at the end of Hooker Valley track and is below Hooker Glacier at Aoraki/Mt Cook in New Zealand. There were numerous small icebergs in the lake in mid winter. August 16, 2014 Canon EOS 550D, ISO 200, f/11, 1/800 sec, 84 mm

This memorial commemorates more than 200 climbers who have died in the region around Aoraki/Mt Cook in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Converted to B&W with NIK software using red filter to convert blue sky to black. 16 August, 2014 Canon EOS 550D, ISO 200, f/11, 1/500 sec, 55 mm

Looking across Tasman Lake and Glacier with Aoraki/Mt Cook in background. New Zealand, South Island August 17, 2014 Canon EOS 550D, ISO 100, f/11, 1/500 sec, 48 mm

Last rays of setting sun on the tip of Mt Cook/Aoraki in New Zealand.

Hooker Valley in New Zealand South Island is between Aoraki/Mt Cook and Mt Cook Village. The trail along the valley is one of the most spectacular places on earth and on this winter's day, it was brilliant sunshine. I converted the original colour to B&W as it gives a far more dramatic effect. Using a red filter darkens the sky and I changed it to be completely black. Processed with Adobe RAW and NIK plugin in Photoshop. August 16, 2014 Canon EOS 550D, ISO 400, f/11, 1/500 sec, 18 mm