Roady

Photography · Social content by Johnny Hendrikus.
Travel & outdoors

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

A good reason to take the long way

My part: Photographer
Where: Northland · West Coast · Kaikōura

Northland coastlines, West Coast ice and whales from the air. A collection of my travel photography with Roady, following the places and experiences that make a New Zealand road trip worth slowing down for.

On the road

Give me a good stretch of road and a few places to pull over and I’m pretty happy. My work with Roady has taken me from the lighthouse and dunes of the Far North to Fox Glacier on the West Coast, with a flight over Kaikōura for Wings Over Whales in the mix.

There’s plenty of variety here: big landscapes, the details around an experience, people getting into it, and those little moments that make you want to go and see a place for yourself.

Showing what it feels like

I like travel photography that gives you a feeling for being there. The scale of the ice, a sandboard waiting outside a kiosk, or a whale surfacing a long way below the plane. Those are different kinds of photographs, but together they tell a much fuller story of the experience.

This collection brings the locations together as a set of images for discovering New Zealand, with room for both the big view and the experience on the ground.

The collection.

12 images
Photography · Social content

Tiny figures on the crest of pale golden sand dunes beneath a cloudy sky at Te Paki. — Te Paki, Northland

A person holds a sandboard in the doorway of a colourful kiosk at Te Paki. — Getting ready for the dunes

A walking-track sign frames a sandy bay and green coastal hills at Cape Reinga. — The Far North coast

Colourful sandboards lean outside the Te Paki Sand Dunes kiosk. — Te Paki Sand Dunes

Two green Canyon beer cans sit on golden sand at Te Paki Sand Dunes. — The small details

A waterfall cuts through a dark mountain wall above the blue-white ice of Fox Glacier. — Fox Glacier, West Coast

Crevassed glacier ice rises beneath rocky mountains and a clear blue sky. — Ice and scale

Low cloud wraps rugged mountains above Fox Glacier. — Weather on the West Coast

View over the Kaikōura coast through an aircraft window, with Wings Over Whales lettering on the wing strut. — Wings Over Whales, Kaikōura

Two whales surface in dark ocean water, photographed from the air off Kaikōura. — A different perspective

A whale surfaces and blows a plume of spray in deep blue water off Kaikōura. — At the surface

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A kea spreads its colourful wings in front of snow-covered mountains.

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