Day 5 - Last Day of Photography Workshop

As  always, up and out by 6:30 and it is really dark here at that hour. I took a piece of carrot cake from last night's dinner to have in the morning. Off we go to some high points around Queenstown for some sunrise shots. This view is fantastic! The clouds seem to hang midway up the mountains each day. I don't know if it is seasonal or a NZ thing, but is looks so cool. We spend about an hour at this hilltop location and watch the sun slowly light the valley and farms. We are above some cloud cover but it does not feel unsafe. The little sheep farms look like a green fairy land below all cut into squares.

We pile back on to the bus for another shooting location about half way down the mountain and the mist is burning off, but the low clouds are still below us. This is a short stop and we move over to Skipper's Canyon. This is so secluded and has a one lane road to the bottom. Our bus parks at the top and we hike about a mile down to an awesome point for some more photos. As I am hiking back up and hill around dwarfs me and I feel so tiny. This place is so different than our area at home. There are no trees on this place, only grasses fill the steep hillsides. In the photo below, you can barely see the road we walked on down to this pinnacle.

Skippers Canyon outside of Queenstown.

Following our morning shoot it is once again back to the hotel for breakfast and then our class. In the class we process the photo so many different ways before publishing them. The above photo was not processed. We get a 2.5 hour break before our last shoot and dinner at Trey and Tina's home.

The last photo shoot takes place at an old sugar mill with some old stable structures. Next to this old stable is the sweetest cottage I want to live in!  It belongs to someone who Trey knows and it is available for rent but the price was not announced. There are so many outdoor living areas. 

The second photo is of one of the 3 bedrooms, two of which open to the outdoors. Below you can see the red sofas right outside the front door and in the background a large 5 x 5 picnic table with umbrella can set many. There is a huge outdoor cooking/barbeque area as well. Around the side by the picnic table is an outdoor bed for lounging, complete with mosquito netting.

In the back of the home are two more decks. One has a very long family table, the other is a more private 2 seat area with a sun cover.

Beautiful place!