By Emma Cropper
New Zealand Geographic has announced the finalists of its photography awards, which showcase New Zealand through the lens of a camera.
It's the introduction of the new time-lapse category this year that's really impressing the critics.
A picture taken every 30 seconds captures glowing clouds gushing past the photographer at sunset. The photographer of the timelapse images camped beside his camera inside a glow worm cave for more than 40 hours just to capture a two-minute clip.
"The people who are really good at it are producing world-class stuff, really eye-wateringly good time-lapse stuff," says New Zealand Geographic editor James Frankham.
From the thousands of photographs received, judges have whittled them down to just 29 finalists.
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