Full Day Photography Adventures
Full day tours take you to more memorable and magic locations where you can explore creative possibilities and shoot at your pace. We can start early to catch the sunrise or finish to view sunset as its sends its glow across a distant range. We have a range of itineraries, but we can tailor a special tour if you have unique interests.
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Making memorable photos takes time and patience. It is often better to spend more time exploring the possibilities at fewer locations, making sure you really capture an soul of the place.
We'll show you how find the angles and set your camera up to capture the best of the each location. Our tour itineraries feature a range of unique destinations, offering possibilities for great images. It's up to you whether we fit as many as possible into the day or we select a few spots and spend more making images that really pop. |
FULL DAY TOUR ($425 per person)
8-9 Hours, Min 2 persons, Max 4 persons We pick you up from your Queenstown accommodation and drop you back when the day is over. Light refreshments are offered we stop to buy lunch in a local village. HALF DAYS If you have less time, try a half day tour. |
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MATUKITUKI VALLEY
A full but fulfilling day that starts east of queenstown climbing a series of switchbacks to reach a terrace that overlooks Lake hayes, the Kawarau River and Arrowtown tucked into a valley. We climb further up the Crown Range Road to the highest paved pass in new Zealand. Looking back we have spectacular views of the whole Wakatipu basin aglow in the morning light and Queenstown in the distance. The road now plunges and zig zags through the Cardrona Valley between steep, tussock clad hills. The fast flowing Cardrona Stream, becomes a river as the valley opens up with the Piza Range on our right. We stop at beautiful Lake Wanaka to photograph a tree that is a New Zealand icon before heading west toward distant Mt Aspiring. Hugging the shore, we pass Glenhu Bay and the Motutapu River. The road takes us through a glacial landscape of strangely shaped hills, skirting below the Treble Cone ski field and finally into the remote farming valley of the lower Matukituki. The slopes on either side close in on until we find ourselves ringed by mountains, by a fast, cold mountains stream crashing over house sized boulders. |
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NEVIS VALLEY
A spectacular drive South along Lake Wakatipu takes us to sleepy Kingston, once a bustling railhead where goods and goldminers bound for Queenstown and the gold fields transferred to steamer. Great views north toward Queenstown and a close-up look at the Kingston Flyer steam train. We head further south to Fairlight, the only other remaining station on the old line and then follow the Mataura River into the valley where it rises in the Eyre Mountains. Finally we climb 1000 meters up the Slate Range the headwaters of the Nevis. From the old Garston Ski Hut we gain amazing views across the Eyre Mountains, Centre dome and out to Southland. This area is a remote alpine plain of tussock and rugged rock tors, a unique and sometimes challenging environment that makes for spectacular imagery. |
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MAVORA LAKES
A spectacular drive South along Lake Wakatipu takes us to sleepy Kingston, once a bustling railhead where goods and goldminers bound for Queenstown and the gold fields transferred to steamer. Great views north toward Queenstown and a close-up look at the Kingston Flyer steam train. We head further south to Fairlight, the only other remaining station on the old line and then follow the Mataura River into the valley where it rises in the Eyre Mountains. Finally we climb 1000 meters up the Slate Range the headwaters of the Nevis. From the old Garston Ski Hut we gain amazing views across the Eyre Mountains, Centre dome and out to Southland. This area is a remote alpine plain of tussock and rugged rock tors, a unique and sometimes challenging environment that makes for spectacular imagery. |
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Glenorchy/Paradise
The classic tour. Moke Lake, Glenorchy, Dart River, Rees River, Paradise. These are all the iconic locations that capture the essence of the Queenstown Lakes. We'l take in these and add in some hidden gems. Glenorchy is a spectacular hour's drive west twisting alongside Lake Wakatipu. Stops along the way can take us to the mired gem of Moke Lake or the overgrown remains of gold diggings at Sam Summer's Hut. Glenorchy is a tiny community where the braided Rees and Dart Rivers flow into the lake. Time is well spent here exploring strange tree formations, a wetland boardwalk . . But wait, there's more. From Glenorchy we can follow the Dart River |
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GOLD HISTORY TOUR
Skippers Canyon, Arrowtown, Crown Terrace, Kawarau Gorge, Bannockburn, Bendigo, Sam Summers Hut, Rees River. Explore the rich history of gold mining in the Wakatipu. It was the discovery of gold in the Shotover River in 1861 that changed this country from a pristine wilderness to a hive of industrial activity as thousands of hopeful prospectors poured into the valleys to seek their fortune. Let us put together a full day touring the remnants and relics of this amazing time. |