Commercial and documentary observational photography. Based in Auckland, New Zealand. Check out the links below or head along to my commercial site.

New Gallery: Domain Hillclimb 2005


It was a year and 30k photos ago, but here they are - 32 photos from the Domain Hillclimb last year. All new(ish) and digitally remastered!

New Photos: The Guarantee

Three shots of 'The Guarantee' sailing in 40 knots during day 2 of the RPNYC's Autumn Series.


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New Photos: 2Hot2Handle Exhibition


Supercharged Viper RT10 - presumably this is one of the older models - it has the side exhausts and a roof like a crashed hanglider.


I'll have to sell a lot of prints to afford this. Let alone this...


The Ferrari Enzo is quite a creature.


Some influences from Formula 1 I suspect


Don't run over any Possums





Lamborghini as art...


...it isn't difficult to find nice angles


Ferrari 360 Modena in silver. Yes please.


Cobra


Aston Martin Vantage and a yellow Lamborghini





The latest shape of Porsche Carrera. The Porsche designers seem to have gone for a bit of a retro look, when I first saw it I thought it was a VW Beetle. Oh dear.


Yet another turbo inlet. I could have just about fitted my head in this one.


An unusual car boot/stereo feature

New Photos: 2Hot2Handle - Drag Racing

I went along to a combined carshow/drag meet today - conveniently located across the street from work. I'll put the car show pics up tomorrow, but here is some of the on-track action...

I didn't have any press privileges (for pretty obvious reasons...) so I had an interesting time trying to see past all the fences, cones, posts, and pro photographers that were determined to get in my way. In the end I gave up trying to find a perfect spot and incorporated them as foreground elements and compositional enhancements.


Some precision drifters appeared, and put in a great show of sliding around on the drag strip. Pretty wild stuff, really...


Three cars drifting around a shared cone


The photographer certainly had a nice spot... Maybe I should get a pink jacket with 'media' on it


Exploring the space...


The jet car made a lot of smoke and bangs and then took off at warp speed. One of the spectators behind me suggested that it would make a really great way to get your milk in the morning





Bikers provided some entertainment, not without a moment of drama...








Nothing broken, but the bike was a bit worse for wear


Damn cone














I thought Mercs were supposed to be dignified...





Needless to say, the Lamborghini won...









Good to see a Viper being thrashed


Viper vs Holden Camaro - the Viper won after a bit of a slow start. Large size version here

New Photos: Botanical Gardens (Reprise)

Monday in Manurewa featured a quick walk around the botanical gardens. Besides the usual photos of flowers and cacti, there were some oddities...


The mandatory oooh isn't it pretty photo


A slightly different impression thanks to some filters and bits and pieces


These Swallows had a nice perch from which to watch eachother's backs...










Seems like a good place for a web, if you ask me...


We have liftoff. I had to walk along the rail scaring the ducks off one by one to get this shot!


Not the usual botanical gardens shot - but these guys cleaning the power pylons provided an interesting scene. Hopefully they didn't mind the short guy with the big lens taking their photo!