"Altered Scapes" features 13 manipulated photographic images of landscapes around the city.
"This series of landscapes is a continuation of a series first exhibited at the Anchorage Gallery in 2003," Reid says.
"They are created by digitally stitching together a sequence of photographs to form a panoramic picture.
"Panoramic photos are usually a very wide and low-shaped image, like a letterbox slot, but I've always found those kinds of panoramas disappointing to look at and a flattening distortion of a viewer's experience of the actual landscape," he says.
"My response is to distort my images along the vertical axis, to stretch them upwards, in an attempt to re-create some of the presence and emotional force that the viewer of the actual landscape might feel.
"I've stretched the proportion to make them more of a three-by-four format.
"This intensification has another effect - to reveal qualities hidden by the subject's familiarity. It makes hills look like mountains and the sea look like it's raging.
"It shows that we do live in a volcanic landscape after all."
The works in the exhibition range up to 1.6m long and create what Reid calls a "Tolkienesque world of fiord-like waters and barely dormant volcanoes".
Reid has previously exhibited at the Aero Club, Milnes Court and Anchorage galleries in Port Chalmers.
He also has a commercial photographic business, which uses a Swiss-designed 60m telescopic mast to take low-flying aerial shots of properties and building sites.
"Altered Scapes" is on at Allez! Gallery in Port Chalmers until August 10.
