South: Photographs From The South Island of New Zealand is a collection of the most stunning photos of the South Island you have ever seen. These photographs provide a compelling portrait of the diversity and magnificence of the South Island covering all of the main tourist destinations but often from a new perspective and always to the highest quality. As quoted on his website Petr says this about our wilderness: As the wilderness around the world continues to be relentlessly attacked for economic benefits of a few it's our responsibility and we as photographers have a great role in it to protect these treasured lands for future generations despite that this phrase became such a clich. But it became a clich thanks to callousness of the exploiting corporations in spite of desperate repetitive calls of the general public for protection of these environments. Without even realising it we take wild places for granted - because we need them. Subconsciously in our mind we know they're there - somewhere and that comforts us hugely. They give us an option of an escape if we need to. But if we would ever allow to loose these places we would have failed tragically as a human race and perhaps the life on Earth as we know it today wouldn't exist anymore. We would all have chips and programs in our heads telling us what to do living in a grey world and we wouldn't even realise that these wild places once existed. We just can't afford to lose these re-charging stations the soul healing wild environments they're part of our existence. But I'm positive as there are few good signals that suggest that we as humans are recognising the need for these untouched and hard to access areas. Their existence keeps us calm and comforted even without ever going there. It's a psychological perception of this fact which has an enormous effect on our life. We are part of these landscapes and that gives us humility and thankfulness that this wild nature allows us to share