Deanna (Dee, D) Gerlach is a commercial lifestyle and adventure photographer based in Wānaka, Aotearoa New Zealand.

D is also a proud Macpac Ambassador, having recently tramped/hiked Te Araroa Trail - the length of New Zealand with her family.

Deanna spent the last ten years based in Sydney, Australia, producing stills and motion with a range of lifestyle and fashion brands, including Pony Rider, Kirstin Ash Jewellery, Alanna Smit, Rachael Finch’s Kissed Earth and Baxter Blue.

New Zealand brings new opportunities in the outdoors and tourism. Recently, Deanna has photographed for Macpac, The North Face, Sea to Summit, The National Project, Lake Wānaka Tourism, Destination Queenstown, The Great Glenorchy Alpine Base Camp, Bike Glendhu, Crosshill Lodge and Domes and The Camp Hāwea.

You can check out the Gerlach family adventures photographed and filmed by D at noodlesforbreakfast.com or @noodlesforbrekky

These magnificent wāhine / women did an epic hut restoration and relocation and we made a film about it! Come join us for the premiere at @nzmountainfilm this Saturday 11am in Wānaka. We even won an award! Runner up in the Mountain Culture Category. You beauties 🧡
Here’s a few back country huts from the last section of @teararoanztrail we did back in January - see more at @noodlesforbrekky 130kms through the middle of Te Waipounamu/South Island, finishing at Lake Takapō/Tekapo. These huts are such a treat. Sure, they’re usually not insulated, plenty of them don’t have a fireplace or wood, there’s often mice around and there’s definitely no cleaner doing the rounds. But after a long day tramping and especially if it’s pouring with rain, having a table to sit around and play cards at is marvellous indeed. #teararoatrail #backcountryhuts #twothumbstrack #canterbury #aotearoa #nzmustdo #hut #cabin #cabinporn #teararoa
I was lucky enough to be part of two different trips this February that invited wāhine / women to come together and get out of our comfort zones doing cool things in the back country. One project relocating and restoring an old hut down by a remote river in the Kaweka Range with @backcountry_trust_nz And one way off track in the depths of Fiordland with @fiordland_wapiti_foundation There’s something magic about this kind of space that invites vulnerability, connection and growth - all while getting shit done like you wouldn’t believe! Us wāhine / women are so damn capable, believe it. #internationalwomensday
Late last summer on Wiradjuri country with @pony_rider @_lucyscutts 🧡 35mm film scans - ngā mihi @theblackandwhitebox