Here's one of my favourite photos from the campervan trip. We'd set up camp at the edge of Lake Tekapo, east of the Mount Cook National Park. Dark clouds had moved in, blotting out the setting sun in the west. We were gearing up for rain in the night. Then, just above the horizon, the sun found a gap under the cloud sheet and suffused the landscape with an incredible warm light. The moment only lasted about 5 minutes before the Earth turned and the light was gone. Freda and Edie went crazy, running around the dried up lake bed (it's a reservoir) in a frenzy of pre-bedtime activity and delighting in their exaggerated shadows, but I managed to pin them both down for this shot. On the lake behind a rare Southern Crested Grebe was feeding.
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