Kia Ora! Sarah and I had booked 3 weeks holiday around her birthday, but weren't really sure where we were going to go. New Zealand was pretty high up on my holiday wishlist and about a month beforehand we decided to look at flights. We managed to get a good deal from Air New Zealand and proceeded to have a fantastic holiday. We only really got a tiny taste of what New Zealand has to offer, and it left us wanting more!
After coming back from Australia I promised myself I wouldn't go on holiday with a compact camera again. The cost of the holiday meant a new camera was going to be out of the question, but Jamie kindly (and trustingly!) offered to lend me his Nikon D70 for the 3 weeks. FANTASTIC! Many thanks to him, it was excellent to use and made such a difference (despite me putting a spec of dust on the lense... you'll hopefully cope when looking through them all).
We managed to squeeze in the Tongariro Crossing and the Milford Track on our travels, both of which were beautiful, I only hope the photos do it some justice. This is an exceedingly cut down selection of photos, (I shot just under 2.5Gb!) Enjoy.
© Mark Warner 2005