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📷 Canon 70D. (Green Is The Prime Color Of The World, And That From Which Its LOVELINESS) “Pedro Calderon de la Barca” (27/07/2018) • • • • ‏#landscapephotography #landscapelover #landscape_captures #landscapes #landscape_photography #pidscape_hunter #landscape_lovers #landscapecaptures #landscapestyles_gf #landscape_specialist #landscapeporn #getlost #landscapephotomag #ig_landscape #trapping_tones #ig_masterpiece #ig_podium #discoverearth #uppertakaka #newzealand #travel @tagaty @vn.pic @tag.pic @natgeotravel @best_newzealand_photos @u.3 @4pho @landscapescapture (at Upper Takaka, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl75lp-hS6F/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vzw01awfp2ar

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The Cobb Valley and Lake Sylvester.  What a way to spend the first day of 2015! This has to be one of the most breath-taking, yet accessible, Sub-Alpine/Alpine treasures I have ever come across.  Sure, the drive in is a little hair-raising, depending who you meet coming the other way. But a relatively short uphill slog, transports you to a completely different world to the one in which you left your car.  Every metre ascended sees towering beech trees slowly shrink to become a mythical miniature forest of bonsai-sized beech, and pillows of moss (apparently quite prickly pillows). Soon after, forest becomes tussock, littered with delicate alpine flowers, and a final push off the marked track takes you up again to the scree and jagged rock of Iron Hill.  It is a big, but achievable, day trip and one I highly recommended.  If you're anything like me, you'll want to pack your 'big' camera.