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04 Jun 2017

New Zealand Accordion Festival and Championship 2017

I went along to the New Zealand Accordion Society’s South Pacific Championship and Festival this afternoon with my daughter in Auckland.  There were some amazing musicians on stage!  I couldn’t help myself so i had to take a few pictures with my small camera to record the moment!

27 May 2017

Joel Vinsen – You & I Experience

I managed to pop along to one of the “You & I experience” sessions at the Auckland library.  Joel Vinsen was performing. You may recognise him from my photos of the Ijebu Pleasure Club For my 5 minutes Joel played his guitar with magnets, a fan, a little metal stick and a mobile phone.  The soundscape was fantastic but only I (as the individual audience) could hear it. If you get a chance to hear Joel in anything he does, do it!

22 May 2017

ONONO, Hans Pucket and Earth Tongue

Wellington bands ONONO, Hans Pucket and Earth Tongue live at UFO, Auckland 19 May 2017.  With thanks to UnderTheRadar ONONO Hans Pucket Earth Tongue  

07 May 2017

Auckland Street Photography Workshop

Did you know I run regular Auckland Street Photography Workshops?  The workshops are aimed at anyone interested in trying out a few different street photography techniques.  We meet in a cafe and talk through some of the concepts before heading out and seeing what we find. There were some great students yesterday and we all learnt from each other.  Great stuff. You can find details of my next course here: www.aucklandstreets.com and you can book via the NZ Photography Tours website Here are a few of my […]

01 May 2017

Hans Zimmer live in Auckland

The Hans Zimmer Revealed tour hit Auckland on Saturday.  It was a totally amazing experience.  So many awesome local and international musicians on the stage as well as Hans Zimmer himself.  The main cellist was Tina Guo which was fantastic! Huge thanks to UnderTheRadarNZ for sending me along to take these photos.  See UnderTheRadar for the official set!

28 Apr 2017

Holden NZ Graffiti Car

I was super lucky to be able to test drive a Holden Spark car for the last two months, thanks to the wonderful people at Holden New Zealand.  The car was painted by Andrew J Steel who is one of my favourite New Zealand street artists. It was sad to take the car back – we were keen to buy it, but that wasn’t possible unfortunately! Last Sunday the two of us went for a last drive round town in […]

22 Apr 2017

Da-Bang Bollywood Show with Salman Kahn

I had the immense privileged of photoing New Zealand’s biggest ever Bollywood spectacular, Da-Bang tour for RS Promotions thanks to the ever amazing David Watson  It was very different to what I normally shoot but a great night’s entertainment.  You could tell those in the audience adored the stars who appeared on stage, especially Salman Khan, the Indian film actor, producer and television personality. Others in the show included Sonakshi Sinha, Bipashu Basu, Badshah It’s Yo Boy!, Prabhu Deva, Daisy Shah and […]

22 Apr 2017

Lindsey Stirling live at the Powerstation, Auckland

The amazing, talented and boundlessly energetic Lindsey Stirling live at the Powerstation, Auckland, New Zealand on the 19th April 2017 Such a great show.  Even better that it was all ages so i could take my violin/viola playing daughters! Support was from Paul McLaney Thanks to Crave for allowing me to photo for them. See the set of images on their webpage here and here are some pictures of Paul McLaney

22 Apr 2017

World Masters Games 2017

I love seeing my photos pop up around the place.  So it’s a delight to see a photo I took of Superhero Secondline appear on the World Master’s Games 2017 website as one of their banner images.  The games are currently on in Auckland and the band are playing a gig this evening (Saturday 22nd April 2017).   See my photos of the band from last year here  

15 Apr 2017

Shooting The Rockstars

I hope you enjoy the photos I’ve taken of some quite remarkable musicians.  Like what you see and want to learn more? I signed up to the Shooting The Rockstars course shortly after I started taking concert photographs because I knew I could improve in both my technical and business abilities.  I can recommend the course 100% for both the course content and the facebook community for ongoing support and professional development. I’ve now got an affiliation link, so if you are wanting to learn more about […]