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Mount Fox is a mountain that I wanted to climb in July 2016, but not proceed due to a bad weather condition. So this place has set to be one of my priority goals during my December 2016 New Zealand mountain trip. After stayed several days in Mount Cook area, I drove to west coast for climbing Mount Fox, although there was only about one day weather window for this action. With a height of 1645 m, Mount Fox is not a technical mountain from a climb perspective. But its steepness and easy to get lost in a foggy situation makes this journey still challenging, especially when one wants to carry all camping and photography gears to the mountain. There was a ideal spot for camping in this mountain, somewhere around 1240 m high near the summit - not exposed and easy to access water from tarns. I started my climb before 10:00am on 8 December 2016. Since the day before had had heavy rain falls, the track was full of mad, wet and slippery. With a full back of camping and photography gears on, it took me 5 hours to reach the destination. I found this composition showing the two major tributaries from the mountain flowing into the sea. The sunset light beautifully irradiated the mountain ridge and plain below, given a great sense of depth of this scenery. Thanks for viewing this image.

There had been heavily raining and a thunderstorm during 11-12 November 2016 night. But the rain stopped around 9am on 12 November morning. I predicted that those waterfalls in Blue Mountains would be interesting after an overnight heavy rain, so decided to go for a shoot. I was right, Edit Fall was about twice larger than its usual size. I waited here long enough until the midday sunlight started to shine on the waterfall. Thanks for viewing this image.

It was around 5:20am on 30 April 2016 local time. During this a pre-twilight period, some thin clouds around the peaks already started to change colors, while the moon still hang high in the sky and shined the Fitz Roy peaks brightly. This moonlight with pre-twilight glow light enabled me to take this image without loosing any details. Thanks for viewing this image.

Laguna Sucia is one of the three lakes under Fitz Roy peaks. Getting to this spot is not trivial. I hiked to this place and stayed for one night. The outcome was simply a reward. Thanks for viewing this image.

On 5 May 2016, I departed from El Chalten at 5:00am, I hiked in the darkness with a full load of climb backpack (25 kg) - my journey of climbing to Glacier Torre began. I arrived at Laguna Torre at 7:40am and waited for my climb companion Andy. This image was taken during my waiting for Andy's arrival. Surprisingly, when I got there, I found Laguna Torre was completely frozen - that was very different from what I saw 2 weeks ago. I could see so many icy blocks everywhere along the edge of the lake. This image captured an amazing scene during the sunrise moment. Thanks for viewing this image,

Sylvia Falls in Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia has been a subject I photographed many times over the years. I took this image on 17 September 2016, when the sunlight was shining from the top of the waterfalls, and particularly made the waterfalls in a great lighting condition. Thanks for view this image.

In my recent New Zealand mountain expedition, my original plan was to climb to two or three high places in Mount Aspiring. But continuous heavy rains affected my plan, and I had to stay in Wanaka for two days waiting for a feasible weather window. This image was taken when I was waiting in Wanaka. This image was taken when I was waiting in Wanaka. The late afternoon light was just amazing when the rain stopped. Roy's Peak is a mountain in the South Island of New Zealand, standing between Wanaka and Glendhu Bay with the height of 1,578 m. From its summit, it offers a grand view across Lake Wanaka and up to the peak of Mount Aspiring. Thanks for viewing this image.

Taken from the edge of Laguna del Los Torres in a calm and stunning sunrise morning. Thanks for viewing this image.