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!!!)

I would like to say I have read it ,but my wife nicked my copy and is laughing so much reading it , she will not give it back until its finished!!

he writes a good yarn does J,  but be warned if you ever have to share a room with him on a three week trip to india ….. he a sleep walker !!! a running up and down hall ways half naked type .!!!  just wished someone had warned me ………. !!!… but dont tell to many people he’s very shy………………….

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one 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  .

most of the pictures where shot with a canon 500mm and a 1.4 convertor  on a 7d (a a few with the canon 1 d  mark4)  giving me a lens of 1120mm lens which was still on the limit as the waves where a bit further out the assignment was  shot in one of the two locations , with this one being in Muriwai in Auckland  on a good surf day .

I’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 .coverage is for AFP in France  which means  I have to give a healthy file of the Europe based players as well as the Allblacks  which can be a bit tough as both matches have been one sided .

as its world Cup next year things have been a bit tighter security wise . but things seem to be ticking along quite nicely

A 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

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

It 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.

in the three days we covered 1300 km and went from Northland to the Waikato.

Rally of NZ is one of my favorite  events that I cover for AFP , we sign away our lives get given a green bib and told to go nuts ,stand where you like if you get run over its your fault!!

the Rally is quite  a hard  event one to cover ,we would pick a spot that looked good on the map drive there ,load up the cameras up on ya back and then head off up the road sometimes its a 1km walk sometimes a 5 km walk  allways looking for that one spot that you think is the place to be it may be a great corner or a slight jump , the cars are traveling up to 200km a hour  on metal roads so you dont have much time. even with the Canon mark 4 camera that I use that shoots ten frames a second you only get four or may five frames before the car has passed and you are getting showered in rocks as the car blast off down the road

all good fun

something 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 … Coca cola put on a big event where lucky members of the public could get a picture with the Football world cup ,( New Zealand  will be at the Football world for the first time in many years)

the cup travels in style where I was told on some stages of the trips it has its own plane!! , while it was in NZ in flew every where by helicopter ! 

Have 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 .

still we work with what he have and now I have a day of editing on the computer working out which of the 2864 pictures  ..not so much fun

the thing is when you write about these jobs they sound like so much fun with travel great locations etc  which is all true , but there are few down sides , the heat and the Bugs ….huge bugs some the size of a sparrow!! and when the run into you they hurt !!! I now have bugs crawling around in my camera so I will have to have a good clean when i’m home

it was Thailand new year so its a three day holiday and as part of the tradition you throw water over ever one . the kids love it and there is nothing better than getting a white boy wet! so we where a target still you are not going to argue with a two ton elephant that wants to throw water over you!!

home on Sunday looking forward to that

ya kinda win the water fight when you have a elephant on ya team!!

well 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,

looking forward to a change of Temp as France was a bit chilly , and I’m sure Thailand will be two hot , I will update when I arrive in Thailand , I have been looking forward to this Job for a while , it should be a great shoot ,

then its home to the Family … and looking forward to that

any way here is a few Pictures from the last couple of Days

Two 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 .here is a few pics from yesterday