Landscapes & the outdoors

Photography · Film by Johnny Hendrikus.
Travel & outdoors

Outside, with a camera

My part: Photographer
Where: Aotearoa New Zealand

Mountains, coastlines, wildlife and the moments in between. A personal collection of the outdoor photographs I keep coming back to — from Mount Ngauruhoe to a kea in flight and whales off Kaikōura.

Outside is where it starts

I love shooting outdoors. There’s always something changing: the light moves, a cloud rolls through, a bird turns up, or a landscape you thought you knew suddenly looks completely different.

This is a collection of those moments. Mount Ngauruhoe catching the light, a kea opening its wings, the patterns in a braided river and whales seen from above with Wings Over Whales. Big places and small encounters, all with their own reason to stop.

A sense of scale

I’m drawn to photographs that make you feel the size of a place. Sometimes that means keeping a person small in the frame. Sometimes it means moving closer and letting texture, colour or a single animal carry the image.

The outdoors feeds into a lot of my commercial work, too. Whether I’m photographing a destination, a vehicle or someone out exploring, I want the place to feel like part of the story.

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Climbing Mount Ngauruhoe

The collection.

12 images
Photography · Film

A kea spreads its colourful wings in front of snow-covered mountains. — The colour you only see in flight

Aerial photograph of the braided Tasman River, with turquoise water and grey river channels. — The braided Tasman River

Wings Over Whales, Kaikoura — Wings Over Whales, Kaikōura

Omarama Hoarfrost Swan — Omarama, in the frost

Frost-covered trees over a calm lake with a small dock and a person standing at the end, surrounded by winter landscape and fog. — Stillness

A red and white striped lighthouse on rocky coast with ocean and clouds in the background. — At the edge of the coast

A person wearing a white hat and black jacket hiking in a rocky, mountainous landscape. — A little perspective

A person climbing on a glacier with rugged mountain cliffs in the background. — Among the ice

A person beside still water with mountain reflections, for the Milford Sound guide. — Milford Sound

Low sunlight and cloud over a mountain lake, photographed from a ridge. — Light over the ranges

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Cape Reinga lighthouse stands above the ocean at the end of a coastal path.

Roady

A good reason to take the long way

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