My Good mate Justin Brown has put out another book called Myth New Zealand , Justin wrote the captions for the pictures in” Bowling though India” and I suppose he wrote the other bits that filled in the space between the pictures!! ( I keep telling him that no one buys a book to read these days …they only look at the pictures!!!) Read More
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“Cold and very wet water”
July 12th, 2010 | Posted in: all, canon 1d mark 4, canon 7d, people, swimmingone of the jobs I have done lately (and another favorite client) is Surf lifesaving New Zealand . A few weeks back we shot a few picture for a new manual . Surf life saving the service will start using jet skis a cross the country , to use alongside there IRB boats .
I have great admiration for these guys they do a great job during the summer and have to deal with more than there fair share of idiots . Read More
Late nights and Airports
June 25th, 2010 | Posted in: allI’m on Allblack duty for the next few weekends , two tests down so far one in Dunedin and one in New Plymonth , and one more on Sat in Hamilton Read More
wet shoots for Blue Seventy
June 15th, 2010 | Posted in: all, blue seventy, canon, canon 1d mark 4, canon 5d mark2, photography, swimmingA few months back I did a shoot for Blue Seventy , who make Hi end wetsuits , they are one of my favorite Clients and have worked with them for the past 5 years or so . they do great ads and use pictures really well and it always great when you get sent the finished ad that had run in mags all around the world .
here is a sample of two ads from the last shoot with a few more ads still to come still to come
Qantas Media Awards 2010
June 15th, 2010 | Posted in: AFP, all, qantas awardsQantas Media Awards 2010
I was a finalist in the qantas media again this year in the Sports portfolio section , I was nice I had two finalist last year and won best feature picture last year , its always nice to make the finalists as a freelancer
there is a few of the pictures from the portfolio below
showering of stones and the Rally of New Zealand
May 25th, 2010 | Posted in: AFP, canon, canon 1d mark 4, people, photographyIt has been a very busy few weeks with lots going on so big lack of blogs .I have pretty much just going from one job to another so I’m catching up now . A Couple weeks ago I was covering the Rally of New Zealand for AFP along with Nigel Marple from Reuters , and Ross Land we all headed off to cover the rally for the three days. Read More
the Tale of Two cups
May 10th, 2010 | Posted in: canon, canon 1d mark 4, canon 5d mark2, canon 7d, people, photography, www.thevc.co.nzsomething happened a few weeks ago that I can’t see I will repeat any time soon, I was hired to shoot the football world cup by Coca cola as it did a world tour and stopped off in New Zealand for a visit , and at the same time our video crew from www.thevc.co.nz were shooting the rugby world cup in Wellington for a promo for the 500 days for the Rugby world cup ! I cant see the two cups ever being back in New Zealand at the same time again … unless we win the football world cup that is … Read More
Huge Bugs and wetsuits
April 15th, 2010 | Posted in: Travel, blue seventy, canon 1d mark 4, canon 5d mark2, people, photography, swimmingHave just finished shooting a job in Thailand on the island of Krabi for a client . was a very hot and sticky day with the temp around 36 degrees , it was a full on day with a 4.30 am start ,the idea was to make most of the morning Light , trouble was it was not that nice a morning .
Out of France ,on my way to Thailand
April 12th, 2010 | Posted in: allwell I have finished one part of my little “OE”
Match race France is all finished and now it is Off to Krabi Island in Thailand for a three day shoot with another Client, Read More
Last few Days in France
April 10th, 2010 | Posted in: allTwo more days to go in Match race France before I head off to my next job in Thailand .
Has been very long days but has been good fun . I have been working with red handed Tv with their coverage of the event , interesting to see that they are doing a bit of there footage of the event with canon 7d . Read More