The road to Queenstown from Lake Wanaka is indeed very beautiful; dramatic scenery with lupins around every corner carpeting the roadside…

Queenstown is of course famous for it’s variety of adventure sports; we had already planned to go white water rafting, however on the way we stopped by the world renowned AJ Hackett’s Bungy Jumping, which takes place off the Kawarau bridge just outside the city. This was the first commercially operated bungy jumping centre in the world, and while I was keen to see it, I had no real desire to try it! Retinal detatchment aside, I do enjoy my extreme sports having been paragliding and have been scuba diving for years, however the whole jumping with an elastic band doesn’t really do it for me; that said, I knew it would be fun to photograph! I don’t know any of the people in this series, but certainly I enjoyed the look of absolute terror on this young ladies face!

All images were taken with the 70-200mm f2.8 L, with the camera set for servo (tracking) focus…

And yet even more lupins…

Time to head to a winery…