While teaching a group of students I took them to a reserve called Meeting of the waters, it is where an outlet from a small local hydro-electric power plant meets the main river. Usually there is plenty of raging water coming down the river from...
Today in New Zealand and Australia is ANZAC (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) day, a day that commemorates the men and women that fought and died in war. It is celebrated today as it is the anniversary of when the ANZAC troops landed on...
Following on from the photos that I have ben taking recently I had a dancer in for a shoot. I found this to be a bit more challenging as I was unsure what to expect and had less control over how she was going to...
After publishing the portraits that I have been doing lately on my blog, I got an offer to photograph Carmela and her mouton bike and I jumped at the chance. New Plymouth has some good mountain biking just out of town and this was a...
Taranaki has some great surfing spots, this is one of the local surfers that I shot in another of my series of portraits of people and their activities. I am continuing to hunt down ordinary people and photograph them out doing the activities that they...
This is the latest shoot in my portrait series capturing people doing the things that they love. This is a golfing friend on mine and I shot portraits of him as well as some action shots. As i was using a wide angle lens for...
This is another image in my series of portraits of people doing what they love. It is an image of my wife, she goes out hiking every week with a group of friends and loves getting away into the wilderness. So I thought it would...
I have been wanting to work on some sports based portraits for a while and this week I have been able to shoot the first of them. This is a shot of a young sailor and her yacht at a New Plymouth beach.I am happy...
Not to be outdone by all the social media photographers I took a selfie today. Wanting to try out some new techniques and having no model available I had to use myself. I am looking to do more portraits in this style to try and...
Now that summer is here again we are getting some great light. We had a long spell of great weather and a construction company asked me to shoot a house for them and then it rained. After postponing the shoot due to the weather we finally...