I don’t know whether the ad I’m talking about was broadcast internationally, but this image of a departing whale’s fluke is entrenched into my memory from the 100% Pure New Zealand commercials - the one with Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over - from ten years ago. (I wish this video was on YouTube just for context, but it sadly isn’t - I even emailed the NZ Tourism Board last year cause I wanted to watch it for nostalgia’s sake.)
That advertisement would repeat all the time on television, and I remember my ten-year-old self believing that I would need to physically witness something as beautiful as this for my life to feel complete.
Looking at this photograph, framed exactly like that shot from that ad, I can’t help thinking that my ten-year-old self was right.
I don’t know whether the ad I’m talking about was broadcast internationally, but this image of a departing whale’s fluke...
i WILL witness something like this someday