In January 2011 I was over on Great Barrier Island with fellow photographer Derek Henderson, who was finishing off a photographic project about a group of young people that travel to the island each summer called the trees are big and sky is blue… One afternoon I tagged along and filmed Derek shooting the final portraits of the four-year photographic project.

I turned it into a mini doco of sorts:

I went for a hike walk on the west coast with a type 100 Polaroid camera and some old film stock. A welcome respite from digital photography!

GLOW – carols by glowstick @ Vector Arena.

Portrait of Campbell Hooper of Special Problems for Stolen Rum.

Agency: Brandspank
Client: IRB

Agency: Brandspank
Client: IRB

Here’s a nifty time-lapse of the RWC Cup photoshoot for host broadcaster Sky Television.

Team North Island: Myself, Steve Thomson and Gavin McGregor.
Team South Island: Jae Frew, Kurt Bradley and Caren Hastings.

Images from the photoshoot with the band.

Article for Stolen Rum here.

Last night Steve Thomson from WOWstockfootage invited me up to an awesome location to photograph the fireworks over Auckland Harbour which marked the beginning of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. It was an INCREDIBLE spectacle. We could even hear the Finn Brothers playing over in the Viaduct!

Here are a few of my favourite shots.

I’m in the middle of doing portraits of a number of teams for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Here are some behind the scenes shots from the All Black shoot.

Thanks to Larnie Nicholson for the shots!

Portrait of I Love Ugly’s Valentin Ozich for Stolen Rum.

Over the last 12 months I’ve had the pleasure shooting stills for the All Blacks Skills viral campaigns with the production company Brandspank.

Check out the campaign overview….

Personal work, Rarotonga.

Portrait of Helene Ravlich for Stolen Rum.

EyeContact reviews our group show at Melanie Roger Gallery.

The show finishes on Saturday 9th of July. You can check out details here.

Portrait of Rickie Dee (Superette) for Stolen Rum

As part of the Auckland Festival of Photography I’m part of a group show at Melanie Roger Gallery.

The exhibition runs from 15th June – 9th July 2011.

I just got word that national broadcaster Maori TV are using some of my South Island motion footage for an upcoming title sequence.

Portrait of Hamilton Brooks (hairdresser) for Stolen Rum.

This is my local train station. I hadn’t taken a look at it since it’s extreme makeover and the fog tonight was the perfect excuse to go and check it out.

Images from the Bubbleology photographic series are in the new issue of Pilot. The project is a collaboration between myself and fellow photographer Derek Henderson.

Issue #5 of Pilot is awesome – well worth the $15!

Jordan Rondel (caker) for Stolen Rum.

Portrait of Neville Findlay (Zambesi) and grandson for Stolen Rum.

Portrait of Atip Wananaruks (stylist) for Stolen Rum.

Sometimes you come across photographs from your archive and see them with fresh eyes. This is a photograph I took at Modesto Municipal Airport in Northern California in 2007.

Yes, Modesto, a town that doesn’t seem to have moved on in 50 years.

This week I was fortunate enough to work along side cinematographer Danny Hiele. Danny is from Belgium but is based in Los Angeles. You might not know his name, but you’ll definitely know some of the music videos he’s worked on: Kayne West, U2 + Greenday, Audioslave, Ngarls Barkley, Fallout Boy, Modest Mouse, Macy Gray….

We weren’t quite making cutting edge music videos this time round but it was two days of fun. I’ll be able to post some of the photographs once the campaign launches in the US.

Over the summer holiday I was able to spend a whole three weeks on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf. For the first couple of weeks I put my camera away and spent as much time as I could in the water, which wasn’t hard as it was a 2 minute walk from the campground.

For the last week I joined up with fellow photographers Derek Henderson and Tash Hopkins, staying in a rustic house on the other side of the Island. I met up with a man who I had previously encountered about 5 years ago on the Island when I was looking for donkeys (of all things) for a photo shoot. Fortunately for me Micheal and his family were friendly enough to let me roam around their property, camera in hand and also take portraits of them and some of their extended family.

I feel the beginnings of an ongoing project…

Derek is also working on a new book project and I tagged along one day to film him finishing off a portrait series. I’ll release the mini doco once the book comes out later this year.

Playing around with a LED-covered wall can lead to interesting results….

Had a fun day shooting a print advert for Sky Sport with All Blacks Rene Ranger, Piri Weepu and Cory Jane showing us their skills.

The boys at Brandspank put have together a great concept for a new Rugby Channel TVC which will have to be seen to be believed.

Check out the TVC here.

This was a nice surprise.

Film maker Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien, Blade Runner) has used some of my footage in the promo for an upcoming project Life in a Day. The back-story to the footage is that we had freakish lighting storm in Auckland last year which I filmed from my home, which I contributed to the footage library wow!stockfootage.

Here is the full clip:

And here is Ridley Scott’s promo (my clip is at 1:04):