Waiouru, New Zealand

Stunning Beauty of paradoxical contrasts

That big snow covered mountain, is in fact a gigantic volcanic glacier, with freezing cold snow all around it and a hot water lake on its peak.
Amazing... isn’t it?

This giant thing is wrecking hot from inside and freezing cold from outside.
What a paradox ! And what a contrast !

This place is all about contrast and paradox.

This is Waiouru, New Zealand.

Waiouru is located somewhere in the center of North Island, of New Zealand

Waiouru is halfway between Auckland and Wellington.

I took these photographs while coming from Wellington towards Auckland, by road.

This place has a unique beauty, due to its contrasting landscape.

Crisp white gigantic volcanic glaciers standing on damp and dark brown lands, are making an acute and strictly contrast in the color and texture of the landscape and the feel and wibe of this atmosphere.

This acute contrast reminds me of the yin-yang balance in this universe.

Everything in this universe has value. All polarities and differences are valuable and important.

Men and women; day and night; white and black; light and darkness; masculinity and femininity.

Now I am going to reveal another contrast of this stunning place. This is military area.
New Zealand army does military trainings in this area. You can see military tanks in this area.

In the arms of this beautiful nurturing nature, you can see military tanks,with the ammunition to kill.

Ability to nurture, and the ability to kill, what a striking contrast !

One may appear nice, the other may look evil, but the reality is that, to live in this world, we need both of these skills. Our world would go out of balance, if we lacked one of these polar-opposit abilities.

This place is a natural visual, physical and practical, manifestation of the yin-yang theory.