Endemic to the remote Auckland Is group in the New Zealand sub-Antarctic. The picture was taken on Enderby Is in January during a rain shower. It captures something of the atmosphere and environment. For most of the year the weather is cold, wet and windy. The spectacular landscape is covered with cushion plants, mosses, lichens, ferns, herbs, grasses, stunted trees and shrubs in sheltered places and there are even tiny terrestrial orchids.
Canon 5DIII + 300 mm f/2.8L II + 2x III extender, hand-held.
Av priority, f/7.1, 1/320 sec, ISO 400, +2/3 EV.
PP in Canon DPP: crop, DLO, USM, RAW to tiff. PS Elements: adjust shadows/highlights, downsize tiff to output jpeg, USM.