Brendon O'Hagan » Travel

Huge Bugs and wetsuits

brendon — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:48:24 +0000

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!!

Bowling through India wins

brendon — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:10:40 +0000

A book Bowling through India wins!!! Bowling through India was a book I shot a most of the pictures for along with another mate John Bougen , the scribbler was ¬†my mate Justin Brown ( we has really there to carry my bag) was ruthe book was runner up in the Travel book of the year last week .

Justin Brown at www.justinbrownbooks.com it a story about five blokes going on a boys trip to play cricket in the slums of India.We had a blast on the trip and it is the first book that I have worked on. we had a great crew and have had stayed in touch after the trip for a little tesser on the trip here is a like to a little multi media project that explains the trip better than I Can

http://www.brendonohagan.co.nz/india.html

I’m on the road for the next week weeks ,with a job in France to shoot for a week and another one in Thailand on the way back

so keep a look out and I will up date my blog while I’m away ( if nothing eles at least my mother and wife will read it !!)

cheers Brendon

Malaysia and the monsoon cup

brendon — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:59:29 +0000

Back in Dec I headed off to Malaysia for a couple of weeks to work with My good mate Gareth Cooke a very very good marine Photographer .

We were there to cover the World Match Racing tour , the Malaysia leg is called the Monsoon cup. it was the last leg of a Nine stop ¬†tour and as it happen a kiwi team www.blackmatchracing.com was at the top of the leader board and if they won the would win the event overall , which was kinda cool as one of my other companies I have a share in http://www.thevc.co.nz had designed there website and done some promotional video clip for the team , Hamish Hooper for editor had worked on the site and the video for quite a while and we had perfected the site so it could stream the races live over the net which I thought was rather cool. any way the guys won the Moonsoon Cup and won the title of world match racing champions ! , its always nice to see a Kiwi team win I can’t say i have done much yachting photography bar three America’s Cup and a Few Louis Vuittion cups but really enjoyed it and will hopefully be doing a few more Yachting Jobs in the future here are a couple ¬† pics from the Monsoon Cup