Photo Competition 2017 - all entries
Tawharanui Coastal Edge
Much like many of us who are stuck on these far flung islands I have a fascination with our coastal edge. The attached photo “Tawharanui Coastal Edge” depicts a group of young snorkelers experiencing the Tawharanui Marine Reserve.
- Orson Waldock
Southern Alps
Seasonal change in the Southern Alps
- Earl Bennett
Thin Edge
At the thin edge of a new trend to improve interior spaces
- Leigh Nicholson
Vertical Garden
NZ native plants in NZ designed vertical gardens
- Leigh Nicholson
Ida Valley
Ida Valley, Central Otago, cultural marker as a frail but stubborn as a rusty wire fence between land and sky. The edge of cultural existence and the landscape stronger for it.
- Richard Denney
NZ native garden
At the edge of a business district in Remuera is a sustainable NZ native garden quietly improving the environment
- Leigh Nicholson
Balmoral Forest
The photo shows soil blowing off recently cleared forest land at Balmoral in North Canterbury that is being converted to dairy farming by Ngai Tahu. This photo is obscene at many levels.
- Owen Springford
Kaimanawa Ranges
we were camping on the edge of a ridgeline 4000m asl in the Kaimanawa ranges, pegged into permafrost ground. Sadly, i have no high res images to send as my laptop was stolen a few years ago with 6 years of work photos going too.
- Katherine de silva
Mission Bay
My photo is a reminder that we can build all the tall towers we like but that everything is ultimately temporary. Here you can see part of a tree fallen from the eroding cliff-face of Mission Bay with Auckland City in the background.
- Paula Hansen
Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition of forest and sea
- Jenny Moore
Lake Gunn Fiordland National Park
This photo represents what I love about my backyard: mountains, bush, lakes - and the colours I connect with New Zealand (green for the forest, blue for waters and sky, white for the clouds).
- Anja Kohler
Living Frame
At the edge of lake Rotorua is a living frame to delight visitors with a unique memory
- Leigh Nicholson
Whangarei Heads
The undefined edge of habitation
- Mayank Thammalla
At the Edge
At the edge of the building at the edge of the freeway in Hamilton
- Leigh Nicholson
Edges
Human activity creates edges through development and agriculture. In this case, the recreational activity divides the landscape and leaves an explicit edge effect on the terrain.
- Benjamin Loh
Natures Edge
#NaturesEdge
- Mayank Thammalla
Arthropodium cirratum
Arthropodium cirratum in flower at the edge of a building in Auckland
- Leigh Nicholson
Landscape at the Edge
This photo represent Landscape at the Edge through seeing the different parts of a landscape surrounding city with contrasting forms and views of the softness of hills and the texture of the buildings
- Susana Ou
Who Rules?
Natural meets Surveyors ruler but who rules?
- Andrew Gray
Human Presence
This photo conveys a sense of unexpected human presence at the edge of the world.
- Brian Scurfield
What is it's potential?
This represents landscape at the edge of an urban space. It is part of a busy high street in Glen Innes yet it is abandoned. It has been many things, a green field, a house and home, a shop, a waste-space. What else could it be, what is it's potential?
- Al Newsome
Lease Expired
This landscape sits on the edge between the old and new, modern and traditional, sacred and profane. 'Lease expired' seemed a prophetic sign given its place next to an ancient pa site.
- Al Newsome
The Swirl
The edge is not always a knife. The land, salt, wind and water will mingle and swirl into a delightful palette.
- Elly Wang
Early morning light
The photo shows the boundaries between the manmade world and the natural world that lives/grows around us and how even though we have locked it up in ways, it still shines through.
- Bailey Clague
Milford Sound
Milford Sound - the edge between extraordinary mountain-scape and water-scape, and between light and dark.
-Graeme North
Mt Peel Sunrise
Where is the edge? I love how the sky and landscape have almost switched roles.
- Hollie Woodhouse
The Kaikoura Ranges
Exploring deep in the Kaikoura Ranges, the edge of civilisation
-Hollie Woodhouse
Land and Sky
I love how the land and sky become one in this image. Is there even an edge?
- Hollie Woodhouse
Moody Skies - Mingha Valley
The moody skies create many different edges between the land and sky
- Hollie Woodhouse
Mt Alpha
I love the split between the sky and the landscape
- Hollie Woodhouse
Huka Falls
Between the harsh waters of Huka Falls and the carved chasm of rock, a soft blanket of moss finds purchase of the edge of these powerful elements.
- Max Irving-Lamb
Between Us
The photograph depicts the edge between the sea and the land after dawn. Standing in between the vast flowing fabric of the sea and the dark soft land, are two humans. The juxtaposition questions the perception of scale, softness, and our existence.
- Zee Shake Lee
Edge of Terquoise
Landscape at the Edge of Terquoise
- Pla Lloyd-Forrest
Reaching for the Sky
Being physically on the edge parallel to our very own Auckland Sky Tower, it is prominent that urban built environments are constantly 'reaching for the sky', but rare for humans to break out of their comfort zone and challenge themselves.
- Oksana Zhang
Metaphorical Edge
Displays the contrast between water and land; the horizon forms an edge. The birds which would usually be soaring in the skies are resting on land, creating a metaphorical edge.
- Oksana Newnu Zhang
Blue Springs
A small stream in the Blue Springs in Putaruru, this shows the edge between water and land, yet illustrates the integration of the water flowing over and around the rocks. The contrast of dynamic flow of the water to static plants also creates an edge.
- Oksana Zhang
Found Objects
Found objects. Organised
- Elrond Burrell
Lives on the Edge
New Zealand, Aotearoa has 14,000 kilometres of coastline, literally and figuratively some of us do experience our lives on the edge. Its important to test ourselves sometimes, explore unfamiliar territories and value untouched landscapes.
- Constance Thresher
Threshold between Land and Ocean
The threshold between the land and ocean has always interested me because its a constantly changing landscape.
- Mayank Thammalla
Piha
The constant weathering processes at the edges of land and ocean can create some wonders like this one.
- Mayank Thammalla
Mt Maunganui Sunset
#CoastalThresholds
- Mayank Thammalla
Mt Peel Sunset
The sunset creates an illusion of becoming the landscape
- Hollie Woodhouse
Contrast land and sky
Through the contrast of the land and the sky.
- Bailey Clague
At the cliff edge
At the cliff edge
- Shaun Denholm
By the lakes edge
By the lakes edge
- Shaun Denholm
Edge of Growth
This images represent the edge of growth; From a little town, to a beautiful city that glows at dawn. From the edge of the other-side it's time to admire a view that began as an idea of tall buildings into skyscrapers.
- Angel Prasad
Beauty at the Edge
In the midst of a busy scheduled in Auckland, there is always something beautiful right by the edges to run away too.
- Angel Prasad
Forgotten
Well for starters I was standing on the edge before the fall into the stream, but otherwise the artificial fence shows the edge of nature.
- Omi Choudhary
A Tale of Two Bridges
An exploration of the interaction and boundaries between human activity, nature and urbanisation - "A Tale of Two Bridges"
- Liz Hardley
Otago Railtrail
Otago Railtrail
- Bailey Clague
Rangitoto Island
On the edge of the Auckland harbour sits the Auckland area's most recently developed volcano - Rangitoto Island. This photo depicts the sharp boundary between the city of Auckland and the wilderness of Rangitoto Island.
- Bridger Herman
After Cyclone Cook
This photo was taken after Cyclone Cook on the coastline roads of Kawakawa. We were literally on the edge, with some parts of the road completely taken away by the storm. After all we had witnessed, behind us was this view - a true landscape at the edge.
- Daniel Lee
Have you ever wondered...
Have you ever wondered that maybe, just maybe, the Earth rumbles, shakes, erupts and cries just because it wants people to remember it exists?
- Mayank Thammalla
Between Light and Shade
The edge between the light and shade signifies our living at the edge.
- John Lee
Incorporating Edges
Incorporating edges in urban landscape design to create ecological niches & habitat for biodiverse beneficial species
- Kirsty Pascoe
Flat Rock Pauanui
This image, showing storm swells crashing over Flat Rock near Pauanui, which is usually a popular fishing spot, represents landscape at the edge by capturing the wild and dangerous natural landscape and it's proximity to the urban centre of Pauanui
- Chester Rosie
Brow Peak near Arrowtown
From an edge of Brow Peak near Arrowtown, the ever growing cultural landscape of Queenstown and it's impact becomes clear.
- Chester Rosie
Walking on the Edge
This photo represents walking on the edge - how I was feeling when I took this photo walking on tough terrain during a 4 day hike.
- Un Hee Minett
Physical Edges in Landscape
This photo shows physical edges in landscape: the city on the edge of the ocean, the sun on the edge of the sea. These edges put together create a beautiful scene.
- Un Hee Minett
The Water's Edge
The water’s edge is simply water – but is so detailed and complex at the same time.
- Un Hee Minett
Physical and Non-Physical Edges
Edges: physical and non-physical come together to create the beautiful world we live in
- Un Hee Minett
Edge of Urban Development
The edge of urban development and pure nature.
- Chester Rosie
The Infinite Edge
The Infinite Edge
- Anna Cowper
The Tonal Edge
The Tonal Edge- Expressing natural & agricultural shifts across Lake Pukaiki
- Anna Cowper
The Progressive Edge
The Progressive Edge- From natural edges to our built environment, it appears that most of our towns and cities progress from below the bushline
- Anna Cowper
Softness and Subtlety
The softness and subtlety between the sea, sky, and distant landscape suggests a relaxed and faraway land.
- Young Kim
Kea perched on the Edge
Kea perched on the edge of a bluff, looking out over the Whataroa river to the Southern Alps
- Megan Bogisch
Hamlins Hill
Taken at Hamlins Hill, there is a stark contrast between the natural landscape of the reserve and the man-made lights of the industrial area below, but also a subtle closeness between the illuminated night sky and the city lights below.
- Young Kim
At the Edge of Falling into the Sea
Coastal areas of New Zealand are at risk of coastal erosion exacerbated by sea level rise and climate change. This bach near Ngawi, in the southern Wairarapa, is literally at the edge of falling into the sea.
- Neil Gordon
Ngawi - at the edge of the sea
Fishing boats drawn up on the beach in Ngawi, at the edge of the sea where local fishers use them to earn their livelihood.
- Neil Gordon
Te Henga Walkway
Taken along the Te Henga walkway, I stumbled across a familiar yet stunning view of livestock grazing on lush grass with a backdrop of a golden sunset.
- Young Kim
Divide Between Land and the Sea
The divide between the land and the sea
- Young Kim
Len Lye Wind Wand
The wonderful Coastal Walkway, at the coastal edge of New Plymouth, including the Len Lye Wind Wand. Some local citizens thought this was too "edgy" when initially installed in 1999, but now it is a local icon.
- Neil Gordon
Physically Exhausted
We had planned a two hour coastal hike, and were lost within the first thirty minutes. Five hours later after being stung, bitten and scratched we trudged our way out of the rushes and onto the beach physically exhausted.
- Alexander Luiten
Where Edges Blur
Where edges blur in the landscape something new can appear - Browns Bay, Pauatahanui Arm of Porirua Harbour, June 2016
- Maria Rodgers
McKenzie Reflections
The mirrors edge
- Shaun Denholm