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Crown Range

Crown Range

This is from the top of the Crown Range, heading from Fox Glacier to Arrowtown, South Island, NZ. Very windy, quite chilly and an incredibly barren landscape. I...
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This is from the top of the Crown Range, heading from Fox Glacier to Arrowtown, South Island, NZ. Very windy, quite chilly and an incredibly barren landscape. If you look to the far right in the photo you can see the road on which I was about to drive down. I've not encountered such tight hairpin bends in many years!!! The grasses here on the slopes are called Chionochloa rubra or in simple terms Red Tussock Grass, and are extremely hardy little plants to say the least!
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Canon EOS 750D

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Aperture f/8 ISO 100 Shutter 1/60 Focal Length 18/1

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Aug, 2020

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Beautiful shot 👍

Thank you marl-6069 😊

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Very nice, Sal x

Thanks Mick, incredible drive down! xx

Beautiful shot!

Thanks so much Kevin, the drive down was interesting to say the least, but oh the scenery!

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