Photography bucket list
Take photography lessons
Go to Tiritiri Matangi Island to photograph the birds
Photograph all New Zealand’s endemic birds
Antipodes Island parakeet
Auckland Island shag
Auckland rail
Auckland teal
Banded dotterel
Black-billed gull
Black-fronted tern
Black robin or Chatham robin
Bounty Island shag
Buller’s albatross
Buller’s shearwater
Campbell Island shag
Campbell snipe
Campbell teal
Chatham albatross
Chatham gerygone
Chatham Island oystercatcher
Chatham Island snipe
Chatham Island warbler
Chatham parakeet
Chatham pigeon
Cook’s petrel
Erect-crested penguin
Foveaux shag
Great spotted kiwi
Grey-headed albatross
Hihi or stitchbird
Hoiho or yellow-eyed penguin
Hutton’s shearwater
Kaka
Kakapo
Kākāriki or red-fronted parakeet
Kākāriki or yellow-crowned parakeet
Kaki or black stilt
Kea
Kererū or New Zealand pigeon
Kermadec storm petrel
King shag
Koekoea or long-tailed cuckoo
Korimako or New Zealand bellbird
Little spotted kiwi
Malherbe’s parakeet or orange-fronted parakeet
Matata or fernbird
Miromiro or tomtit
Mohua or yellowhead
New Zealand dotterel
New Zealand falcon
New Zealand scaup
Ngutuparore or wrybill
North Island brown kiwi
North Island kōkako
North Island saddleback
North Island robin
Okarito kiwi
Otago shag
Paradise shelduck
Parekareka or spotted shag
Parkinson’s petrel
Pāteke or brown teal
Pihoihoi or pipit
Pipipi or brown creeper
Pitt shag
Piwauwau or rock wren
Popokotea or whitehead
Pycroft’s petrel
Ranguru or Chatham petrel
Red-billed gull
Riroriro or grey warbler
Royal albatross
Shy albatross
Snares penguin
Snares snipe
Southern brown kiwi
South Island kōkako
South Island oystercatcher
South Island robin
South Island saddleback
Subantarctic snipe
Takahe
Tawaki or Fiordland penguin
Taiko or magenta petrel
Titipounamu or rifleman
Tui or parson bird
Tuturuatu or shore plover
Variable oystercatcher
Wandering albatross
Weka
Westland petrel
Weweia or New Zealand dabchick
Whio or blue duck
Take a scenic shot of New Zealand’s South Island
Take a classic shot of cows or sheep blocking the road
Photograph a wedding
Photograph the Northern or Southern Lights
Do a newborn baby shoot
Photograph penguins in Antarctica
Photograph a professional model
Take a frame-worthy photo of Auckland’s skyline
Complete a 365 project
Get 100 followers on Instagram
Get 500 followers on Instagram
Get 1,000 followers on Instagram
Get 100 followers on Facebook
Get 500 followers on Facebook
Get 1,000 followers on Facebook
Take a photo of a geyser
Go on an African photo safari
Do street photography of strangers in a major city
Take a photo of a thunderstorm or tornado
Photograph an ancient stone circle
Photograph a field of flowers
Photograph a named waterfall
Photograph waves crashing around a lighthouse
Take a frame-worthy photo of fireworks
Take a frame-worthy photo of a rainbow
Take a long exposure photo of the stars
Photograph an abandoned house or barn
Effectively use panning to photograph a moving vehicle
Photograph someone jumping a skateboard or bike
Take a well-exposed photo of a live band
Take a well-timed sports photo
Take a macro photograph of a flower
Take a macro photograph of a snowflake
Take a macro photograph of a bug, spider or insect
Photograph someone crying
Photograph someone laughing
Photograph a couple kissing
Take a frame-worth photo of food
Own a professional level Canon camera
Own a macro lens
Own a super-telephoto lens (over 300mm)