Back in February and March I escaped the winter of Colorado and took a trip to New Zealand, rebooting an itinerary that had to be canceled back in March of 2020 for reasons we’re all too familiar with. My plan was to just visit the South Island as the mountains and glaciers were my biggest interest, so I booked a flight and a tiny one-person camper van for about 20 days. I also knew that I wanted to use 4x5 film as it's the system I’m most familiar with and the results always please me more than medium format film, though I will admit that the smaller roll film is much easier to travel with. This trip was an absolute blast with stunning scenery, wonderful people, and a very easy travel experience. For this article I want to talk a bit about how I got there with my large format film, and what it was like to wander around the island for a few weeks with the goal of getting as much photography time in as possible…