Downpour

Downpour, Milford Sound, NZ – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

Downpour, Milford Sound, NZ – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

This is an unframed, limited edition collection, landscape photography print of only 25 units. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl papers, structured to refract the highest values in colour and detail. It’s high-quality ink absorbing layer enables exceptional image quality with enormously detailed sharpness, and a very broad colour range, providing archival permanency of your artwork for over 100 years.

On tripod, Sony A6000, 16mm, F9, 1 sec, ISO 100, no filter, processed in Lightroom.

This was one of the most incredible scenes I’d ever witnessed. The most rainfall in the Milford region since record keeping began in New Zealand history. I found an area on the road just out of the cove and watched as hundreds of waterfalls took over the mountains in under 2 or 3 minutes. This image as captured just seconds before gale force winds blew in and made standing near impossible. I later found out this was the remaining front of a cyclone that had earlier in the month, passed down through Fiji to the southern ocean. Awesome.

Downpour, Milford Sound, NZ – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

Never miss a shot because you might get wet. That one in a million image is because you took a risk to do something outside your comfort zone. I often tell me students that if we hike into an area, expect to be shooting in the sunshine, the rain, the hail and dark. Epic photographs are not captured from the carpark or the safety of your tent.