reverie by Jay Daley

reverie by Jay Daley

www.flickr.com/photos/jaydaley/15103646906/ Welcome to my daydream. The very moment captured in this image is one of the greatest moments I have experienced in my photographic life. I joined four of the best landscape photographers I know to fly to the summit of New Zealand’s highest peak and stay the night in this mountain cabin known as, Plateau Hut. The dramatic nature of these mountains provides a rare challenge for the climbers that attempt them. The combination of heavy glaciation, tremendous vertical scale and unpredictable weather means that they are not readily won. For us, the challenge was different. This was a rare opportunity to capture one of the most spectacular scenes this amazing country has to offer in some of the most perfect conditions we could possibly have wished for. At just over 12,000ft the experience of standing on the summit of one of New Zealand’s major peaks is a rare privilege. Above the clouds, between the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean, these mountains offer the opportunity to rise above life’s complications, worries and frustrations and take in the extensive views.

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