New Zealand Geographic

07/10/2025

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The last light of a September day hits the hills as sun breaks through the clouds. “A classic Mackenzie Country scene,” says Alistair Guthrie, who stopped to photograph it while on the road. ”The only challenge was finding a place to pull over and not get run over.”

📷: Alistair Guthrie, 2025 Resene Landscape Finalist

07/10/2025

While camped on a beach at the entrance to Hāwea/Bligh Sound, Dan Sutherland came across a small cave where tawaki/Fiordland crested penguins were nesting. He hid behind a tree stump to photograph the tawaki as they emerged one by one to drink from a small waterfall, capturing a close-up of the feathers of one as it went about its business unawares.

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📷: Dan Sutherland, 2025 Heritage Expeditions Wildlife Finalist

06/10/2025

Early on a winter’s morning, Enzo Giordani spent half an hour photographing a black swan beating its wings in the water to clean them. “As one of the many people who love to get up before dawn and spend time photographing birds at Western Springs, I often gravitate towards the swans,” says Enzo Giordani. “Their long necks create beautiful shapes and curves.”

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📷: Enzo Giordani, 2025 Heritage Expeditions Wildlife Finalist

05/10/2025

In the northwest Pacific, a crushing 10 kilometres below the surface, a community of shellfish, worms and anemones is quietly thriving. Fuelled by methane and hydrogen sulphide seeping from the Earth’s crust, the creatures sprawl across thousands of kilometres in oceanic trenches—together, they are by far the deepest known complex ecosystem in the world.

📷 Chinese Academy of Sciences

In the northwest Pacific, a crushing 10 kilometres below the surface, a community of shellfish, worms and anemones is quietly thriving. Fuelled by methane and hydrogen sulphide seeping from the Earth’s crust, the creatures sprawl across thousands of kilometres in oceanic trenches—together, they ...

04/10/2025

Remember the Magic Eye books of the 90s?? Now, you can have a crack at viewing New Zealand’s native flowers in 3D. Clematis, orchid, ngutukākā, korukoru, oioi… this is a luscious, spectacular feature by Rebekah White, based on the new book He Puāwai by Philip Garnock-Jones.

📷: Philip Garnock-Jones

Philip Garnock-Jones has spent more than a decade photographing our native flowers as they’ve never been shown before: in luscious, three-dimensional detail.

04/10/2025

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Hoiho/yellow-eyed penguins wait for the right moment to dive into a rough sea as they head out foraging for the day. A long exposure, braced against some driftwood, allowed Tony Whitehead to capture the motion from the splashing waves. It took about half an hour of waiting and watching before the elements came together.

📷: Tony Whitehead, 2025 Heritage Expeditions Wildlife Finalist

03/10/2025

The Electric Avenue annual summer music festival in Hagley Park is illuminated by the artificial light of concertgoers making videos of the drum and bass act Chase and Status. “People spent more time filming on their phones than they did watching with their eyes,” says Iain McGregor, who is a senior photojournalist at Stuff.

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📷: Iain McGregor, 2025 Society Finalist

03/10/2025

En route to the coast of Aorangi after a day surveying rako/Buller’s shearwater burrows, Edin Whitehead spotted a small flock of welcome swallows bathing on the wing. “I spent about ten minutes firing off shots as they dipped into the water,” she says, “hoping that something would be sharp enough to see the behaviour.”

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📷: Edin Whitehead, 2025 Heritage Expeditions Wildlife Finalist

02/10/2025

02/10/2025

Sarah Holdaway poses in costume as Osamu Dazai from the manga Bungo Stray Dogs during the Armageddon Expo, an annual science fiction and pop culture convention held in Auckland. Dean Purcell photographs street style for the magazine Viva, capturing the portrait’s environment as well as the person at its centre.

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📷: Dean Purcell, 2025 Simplicity Portrait Finalist

01/10/2025

Project Jonah volunteers respond to the stranding of 39 pilot whales at Farewell Spit. Photojournalist Tim Cuff arrived on the scene in the evening and documented weary volunteers who had been caring for the whales all day. The whales were re-floated twice before the survivors finally left the bay.

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📷: Tim Cuff, 2025 Society Finalist