Bob McCree has spent most of his life as a lover of the New Zealand landscape and lifestyle. He has spent the last 20 years photographing and documenting it and holds an extensive library of over 70,000 images of all areas of the country and all aspects of the New Zealand lifestyle. He is a life member of the Howick Camera Club and has been a member of the Photographic Society of New Zealand for the last 20 years and holds their highest honours award of a Fellow of that Society (FPSNZ). In recent years he has had over a dozen pictorial books published in his name and has contributed many images to other books and a wide range of calendars and other pictorial publications. He lives in Howick, Auckland.