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Steampunk HQ is located in the former Meeks Grain Elevator Building, a historic building registered with by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category II structure.

Gibraltar Rock, nestled in the Port Hills near Christchurch, at sunset. Atop the rock a lone figure stands with arms outstretched, warmed by the last rays.This shot was planned well in advance, hoping for a clear day during a narrow window of opportunity, we managed to capture the sunset at just the right moment.

Christchurch City West, one of Derek’s earlier panoramic photos of Christchurch City, as seen from the Port Hills.Created on the 6th of October 2007 using a powerful telephoto lens, hundreds of images were taken of the city then stitched together using Autopano software by Alexandre Jenny, of ...

Christchurch City East, one of Derek’s earlier panoramic photos of Christchurch City, as seen from the Port Hills.Created on the 6th of October 2007 using a powerful telephoto lens, hundreds of images were taken of the city then stitched together using Autopano software by Alexandre Jenny, of ...

South side of New Brighton Pier, early morning slow exposure.21st April 2009 

Lupins abound in the Mackenzie country. This is a digital painting of the beautiful flowers scattered across the district.Check out this article in New Zealand Geographic about the love/hate relationship with them here. 

A digital sketch of the Oamaru BreakwaterSilent, it was so silent when I took these photos. The fog covered everything, dampened noise and hair. Not even the birds made a sound. 

A place to sit and listen.

Harbour Street, Oamaru, is a quite place at night, the silence only broken by the chatter of the little penguins that live under the buildings.If you walk these streets after midnight, be aware you are being watched. Ghosts inhabit these streets, denizens of a long lost past walk in the space betwee...

Moraki boulders lie on the beach close to the small village of Moraki, on the Waitaki coast.As the sea erodes the cliff, the boulder slowly emerge until the erosion causes them to fall to the beach below.A major tourist attraction for the region, the boulders attract visitors from across the world.T...

Pier Number 3, taken on the 17th of July 2008.Slow exposure of the pastel scene, a grain added during editing to enhance the image.

Before the storm the boats lay still in Oamaru Harbour.A digitally painted piece showing the dramatic clouds minutes before sunset in this beautiful location.European settlement at Oamaru began in 1853 when Hugh Robison built a musterer’s hut on the foreshore. North Otago was good for sheep-runs, ...

Canterbury Fire I, a stunning sunset taken from close to the car park at the base of Mount Vernon, Banks Peninsula.From memory these were taken Late August 2010, 1 week before the first earthquake hit the district. 

Pier Number 4, taken on the 17th of July 2008.Slow exposure of the waves beneath the Pier, lit by purple light, a grain added during editing to enhance the image.

When I lived in Christchurch I didn’t have a car, so cycling through the dark from St Martins to Sumner to catch sunrises was always an event I remember because of the danger!As many cyclists know in Christchurch, you risk car doors being opened, drinks from cars thrown at you, an one one occa...

A break in heavy fog lights up a wave from a distant sunrise at the Oamru Breakwater, Oamaru Harbour.Captured at 1/1600th of a second the water appears to shatter like glass against the stone.

Boaties skip across the Avon Heathcote estuary, Christchurch, with a winter storm looming on the background. Light breaks through the dark clouds in the distance.

The colours of this sunrise, taken on the 21st of April 2009, never fail to stun the viewers. 

The Church of the Good Shepherd, Tekapo, is a must do for all astrophotographers.The Mackenzie Basin offers some of the clearest night skies in the world and achieved status as the world biggest and best Dark Sky Reserve in 2012.This image shows the Church with our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, rising to the east.

A beautiful rainbow stretching up from behind the Oamaru BreakwaterMarch is usually the month of rainbows in Oamaru, cold fronts from the south bring much needed rain.The smell of Petrichor is abundant. 

The building was officially opened on October 7, 1907 and remains largely in its original condition, having been restored in 2009. The refurbishment won the Public Architecture category of the 2010 Southern Architecture Awards and the 2011 NZIA Heritage award for Heritage Conservation. More information here.

Waitaki skies are some of the most beautiful in the world, the Oamaru skyline is seen here cutting deep into the twilight sky.Digital artwork showing the amazing layers the slight mist and dusk created. 

Oamaru’s beautiful stone buildings are miniature worlds, each wall is inhabited by flora and fauna that started to colonize the rock as soon as the blade cut and the face was open to the elements.Here we have the side of Steampunk HQ, moss and plants flow along the lines of moisture created by old and damaged spouting.

A Digital artwork showing the beautiful Oamaru Harbour at sunset, the boats still lit by the setting sun.