I spent a fantastic four days at Mt Potts Station with New Zealand Photography Workshops photographing winter landscapes and the working life of this large sheep and cattle station in the Southern Alps.
We were given the opportunity to shoot the mustering of lambs on the tussock hillsides by mounted riders with dogs. The lambs were then driven down to the stockyards to be weighed to check their growth and development.
George on horseback heads out with dogs to muster the lambs
George and his dogs round up a mob of lambs on the tussock hillside
Dawn the sheepdog corrals the lambs in the stockyard
The merino lambs are packed into the stockyard ready to be weighed
A healthy lamb leaps to freedom after being weighed by Hamish
George, his horse and dogs head home after a good morning’s work
