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Adventure Sports And Tourism
Athletes, tourism operators and outdoor brands, photographed where the action actually happens. I am an adventure athlete myself, so I can reach the ridge, the river or the backcountry and still keep shooting.
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- Adventure Sports And Tourism
NZ Adventure Tour Promotional Content- NZET
Eleven days on the road across eleven South Island locations with New Zealand Educational Tours, shadowing their most respected tour and the international high school students on it. Delivered a full photo library, a long-form explainer video and social cutdowns for school presentations overseas.
- Adventure Sports And Tourism, Events Photography
Whakatipu Legend Winter Swim
An annual open-water winter swim in Lake Whakatipu, shot from a lifeguard boat in a full wetsuit. I approached the organiser and asked to come along for free in my first months in Queenstown — a way into the local events community, and warmer in the water than out of it.
- Adventure Sports And Tourism, Videography & Film
“The Annual Greensteam” Film Wins 2 Awards
- Adventure Sports And Tourism, Events Photography
Waterfront Half Marathon, Auckland
Photo and video coverage for Running Events at the Waterfront Half Marathon in Auckland, April 2024. Focused on hero marketing content, including the drum groups performing along the course, delivered as stills and clips for the following year's promotion.
- Adventure Sports And Tourism, Events Photography
Tara Iti Kiwi Invitational
Covering for another photographer at the Kiwi Invitational, a private members' tournament at Tara Iti Golf Course in Northland. Tournament play across the course plus a private dinner in the evening — and Kelly Slater among the guests.
- Adventure Sports And Tourism, Events Photography
Maraetai Half Marathon
Event photography for Running Events at the Maraetai Half Marathon in Auckland, March 2024. The brief was hero marketing imagery rather than participant coverage — photographs built to sell the following year's race across the event's website and campaigns.
- Adventure Sports And Tourism, Workshops & Education
The Irony Around Upgrading Hiking Trails
On the Pouakai Circuit at Mt Taranaki I met a man who had laid planks on that same trail 56 years earlier. This is about the tension inside trail upgrades — boardwalks and stairs helicoptered in so vegetation can recover, on tracks we walk to escape exactly that kind of infrastructure.
- Adventure Sports And Tourism, Workshops & Education
Climbing to the Summit of Mount Ruapehu: What an Active Volcano Taught Me
Climbing to the summit of Mount Ruapehu takes about four and a half hours up and two and a half down, with crampons and ice axes mandatory for the upper three hours. Adrift Tongariro holds the only commercial concession to guide it. Here's what the climb is actually like, camera in hand.
- Adventure Sports And Tourism, Workshops & Education
Tips For Hiking In A Relationship
Advice for hiking with a partner who has less experience than you, written from taking my partner Laura into the New Zealand backcountry. Start small, carry a compass and paper map alongside up to three litres of water, and leave a note on the windscreen before a multi-day walk.
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