A few years ago, I was lead producer and art director for this in-the-moment series of images for Microsoft. After speaking with several talented photographers,I hired national geographic photographer Steve McCurry (widely known as the photographer who shot the "Afghan Girl" for NatGeo) across several areas of New Zealand for a breath of inspiring landscape images.
I’ll never forget that first conference call with Steve and his agent, when he said “We can go anywhere in the world, where do you want to shoot?”. My mind was spinning with ideas, and I was thinking “wow, I can’t believe this is my life - I get to go anywhere in the world with Steve McCurry!”. We decided on New Zealand due to the many different types of landscapes we can get from Oceans to mountains.
We spent 10 days flying, driving and boating around both the North and the South Islands and shot sunrise and sunset every day. I’ve never been more proud of the team, and the images we got from this trip.
