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Come Together at The Issac Theatre Royal

Chris Pegman

New Zealand

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Taken out the Airbus crossing from North into South Islands of New Zealand

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Nominee

Over The Nelson Ranges

a very lonely lighthouse at the end of peninsula accessed only by 4WD vehicle, Kaipara, New Zealand

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Pouto

a peaceful church yard in the historic Stone Store Basin - the cradle of the nation - Kerikeri, Bay of Islands. NZ

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Inside the Archway

NZ's highest mountain, Aoraki, reflected in glacial waters, with a bonus shooting star glancing the peak.

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Aoraki Reflections

This image was shot during a spectacular show by 'Come Together' (a collective of finest NZ artists) of Led Zep IV. I used my ultrawide non fisheye lens to capture band, crowd and venue. The venue is a building that has been rebuilt following the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 & 2011.

Silver

It would have been easy inside this dark shelter to feel negative & hopeless - & life can sometimes have us feel like that - yet, look up out the (broken) window, & there is so much more than the present circumstances would have you think possible.
Have faith, get up & get out to something better

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Don't Give Up

The Northernmost point of New Zealand on a brooding evening where colour entered the drama. 
It is here that two oceans crash into each other

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Cape Reinga Dusk

A viral image that had 2 million hits on 1 site alone, and been discussed in places such as snopes.com concerning its execution. It is of course a perfectly timed composite.

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Supermoon

It was a bitter cold night in NZ - see the grasses in long exposure battered by the cold wind  - yet there was such wonder at being out among the stars, feeling miles away from it all but so relatively close to a city. I processed to reflect the icy coldness yet the beauty and awe of being there.

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Packhorse Hut

An image shot for the Waitangi Treaty Grounds (a site of NZ historic significance). The craft (Ngātokimatawhaorua), the largest waka in NZ & a national treasure, was photographed on Waitangi Day, and blended in.
I hope to create a scene of what it may have been like for the 1st Maori arriving to NZ.

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Ngātokimatawhaorua under the Milky Way

I used a low tripod and panoramic apparatus within the crown of a large spreading tree. Using a very wide full frame lens (non fisheye) I shot just four frames vertically upwards at degrees of 0, 45, 90 and 135 thus covering the whole sky.

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Islands in the Sky

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I had been looking for several years for a 'waterfall' of trees, so I was delighted when I found this tree alone.
A picture of hope through defiant survival: I wonder mettle it had to survive, and what is was that caused it's neighbours to perish?

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Indefatigable

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Honorable Mention

This image was shot during a spectacular show by 'Come Together' (a collective of finest NZ artists) of Led Zep IV. I used my ultrawide non fisheye lens to capture band, crowd and venue. 
The venue is a building that has been rebuilt following the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 & 2011.

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Gold

Entering, beginning, bringing nothing of yourself (naked), through doorways open to you, to something greater than yourself and what you currently are.
The Orion nebula, new stars
The Pleiades,  in NZ Maori = newness
Our Milky Way, in a never ending infinity
The naked figure vs the angelic/Devine.