New Zealand Scenery 
and Stereoscopic Photography

Featuring: Volcanoes, Mountains, Glaciers, Forests, Caves, Panoramas and Stereoscopy.

Volcanoes erupted from lighter rocks as the sinking Pacific Plate melted in the earth's interior.
Glaciers and rivers eroded the
Mountains almost flat, only to rise again in several cycles.

Caves formed in limestone made from shells and skeletons of tiny sea creatures on the ocean floor.

Panorama photography captures wide expanses of  New Zealand landscape.

Astrophotography  The southern hemisphere's moon rabbit.

Schering Calendar has recorded New Zealand's scenery since 1991, using medium format photographs by John Wattie.
South Island Tour describes how to see amazing scenery in just one week.

Prehistoric Animals survived here while the rest of the world evolved during New Zealand's isolation for millions of years in the ocean.
  
  Wetas are large insects. 

  
  Tuataras are even older than lizards.
  Spiders 

2006: Small mammals did exist in New Zealand despite the previous dogma that only birds and a couple of bats represented vertebrates here.

(August): Click on the pied shag Phalacrocorax varius to see its nest and eggs in a new window.
Some people on Windows machines are seeing these cormorant pictures break apart. There have been no problems reported from Macintosh users

Stereoscopic photography. Flat, 2D pictures do not do justice to our beautiful 3D world.  Anybody can make stereo pictures with methods described in detail here. An ordinary camera will do the trick and digital cameras work very well.

Monarch caterpillar to chrysalis

Southern cross
Updated astro-photograph, March 2006.

3D Forest toadstools

Stereoscopic images of fungi. New version August 2005

Stereoscopic Orchids

By Eric Scanlen. Our guest photographer who frequently lectures on orchids, while projecting his amazing 3D pictures.

3D mathematics
with Frank Di Marzio, Melbourne, Australia.