Nature's Window to Devils Staircase, Marlborough Sounds sailboats at the head of the

at the head of the valley in the Southern Alps

Its weathered timber facade is all that remains of the once-busy mining town

The sheep-dotted hills below have been likened to the Shire

An abandoned homestead stands in the South Island high country

the sun breaking over the inlets and the volcanic hills above Dunedin Harbour

Nature's Window to Devils Staircase, Marlborough Sounds sailboats at the head of theA hidden bay in the Marlborough Sounds, at the top of the South Island, opens through a screen of native ferns. The Sounds are a vast maze of bush clad drowned valleys and still water near Elaine Bay, in the outer Pelorus. Stephen Milner photographed the view through the ferns in black and white, the hills and water beyond reflected in the calm bay. Printed to order at a specialist fine art lab, in two archival finishes: Under Acrylic Glass. The print