BOOK REVIEW: New Zealand – The Essential Landscape by Rob
Brown
As children, we loved picture books or just any book that
contained colourful pictures of anything, from fairies to trees to houses. When
adulthood clutched us in its arms, we constantly fall in love with realistic
and beautiful pictures of our surroundings, a clear cry to embrace our
childhood of appreciating something in a frame. In this book, the author and
photographer Rob Brown caresses that love by cramming a book with artistically
taken photographs of New Zealand’s vast landscape.
For nearly 2 decades the author has been hauling his heavy
and bulky large-format camera all over the wild parts of New Zealand. This has
required a singular level of dedication and stamina, but it has been this
cumbersome camera that has enabled him to realize the immensely detailed and
beautifully lit photographs that so distinguish his work.
This book presents a magnificent roll-call of what can truly
be claimed as the essential landscapes of Aotearoa: Stewart Island, the
Catlins, Nelson Lakes national parks and many more of New Zealand’s
breathtaking sceneries.
Rob Brown is clearly one of the finest landscape
photographers around and this book is a superb insight into the elegance and
strength of his work. Highly recommended, this book has one of the most stunning
photographs I’ve seen of nature and all its beauty.
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