The rainbow from my previous post at Lake Tekapo lingered on for quite a while, giving me wonderful opportunities to play around with landscape compositions. This is another of my efforts: for this particular one, I decided to use the pink Russell Lupins as a foreground in contrast to the dramatic lighting of dawn at the lake.
Lake Tekapo is home to the Church of the Good Shepherd which has been described as New Zealand’s most-often photographed church. We certainly added more numbers to the Church’s photograph count when we were there 😛 Rewarding us for our early photographic reveille was a brilliant rainbow (actually this was the second we saw that morning, the first is here on my dad’s photoblog) that arced over the Church.
Hopefully, 2008 will be a year of colourful rainbows for everyone too 🙂 Happy New Year!
Continuing with the New Zealand pictures… We were heading from Oamaru towards the famous Moeraki Boulders when we came across a sign marked “Coastal Otago Scenic Route“. Taking a diversion from our intended route, we headed down this drive along Beach Road towards Kakanui. We were rewarded by stunning views of the Pacific Ocean.