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Rachel Gillespie

RACHEL GILLESPIE 
PHOTOGRAPHY ADVENTURE | ASTRO | LANDSCAPE | COMMERCIAL

Rachel Gillespie is a full-time guide, astrophotographer and landscape photographer in the Mackenzie Country, Kaikoura and Fiordland, specialising in daily tours and workshops since 2006.

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Her background as a professional photographer has seen her host guests at The Lindis Lodge, Ahuriri, Lakestone Lodge and other exceptional destinations around the region. Adventuring in the Aoraki Mount Cook Dark Sky Reserve, Kaikoura and the extended South Island is where you'll often find her.

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Born and bred in the South and with a great passion for landscape photography, her family took her to off the beaten path as a child and she has been in love with nature ever since. She is the perfect person to guide you through her backyard to more magical locations that you’d even know were there with DOC approved trails.

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Rachel also has a busy print and canvas business and tutors fine art printing workshops.

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Rachel offers a wide range of services including landscape, aerial photography and astrophotography tours, tuition and workshops, glacier guided tours with a pro glacier company at Tasman Glacier, shoots custom commercial images, environmental portraits, kitchen splashbacks, large wall prints and wall paper. She also sells prints, canvas and metal artwork, made to measure or one off commission images.

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Rachel has worked with Adobe, Winterstellar Dark Skies, Aoraki Mackenzie Dark Sky Trust, Kaikoura Dark Sky Trust, IDNZ, Abercrombie & Kent, Beyond the Blue, ChristchurchNZ, MackenzieNZ, WaitakiNZ and she is a supporter of The Kaimanawa Wild Horses, Women's Refuge, Gumboot Friday and has been featured on 100% Pure New Zealand and many other publications

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Rachel Gillespie

info@nztraveladventure.com  +64275178732

www.nztraveladventure.com

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Example of a Kitchen Splashback 22 images stitched to make a large file

Lake Ohau - Rachel Gillespie
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