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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Tom May

Banning photos feels like it's becoming the norm in New Zealand. I'm worried this will happen everywhere

Maori carving in the side of a cliff on Lake Taupo.

Six months. That's how long my wife and I spent wandering around New Zealand between August 2024 and February 2025, armed with our cameras and a naive belief that we'd return home with memory cards bursting with spectacular shots of Middle Earth.

Instead, we came back with what can only be described as the world's most expensive collection of "No Photography" signs.

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