I have a secret Queenstown shame! I lived here with my family for four years, and never made it up into The Remarkables ski area! This is probably because I live closer to Coronet and it's more convenient. But this is a silly reason because I came from Austin, Texas, where you have to drive at least one hour to go almost anywhere. Anyway, an extra few minutes in the car gets you up into this snow filled and beautiful panacea for the first time. Being a landscape photographer, I've always been attracted to rugged and epic scenes, so pretty much everywhere I looked delivered a cinematic scene.

At one point, we took the snowmobiles as high as we could go then proceeded to hike up to Lookout Point. It was a hard hike through the thick snow. My Fitbit said I climbed 70 floors, but I think I only really did 50 floors because I fell down about 20 of them. Anyway, once I finally got myself and all my equipment up the mountain, I got this panorama. The full rez version is quite huge - 3.5 meters across.

Queenstown, New Zealand