Inline Skating Over Quake Gaps

Got out for a shoot this evening with client and good friend Scotty Buck­ner from Skate Skool. As many of you are aware, Christchurch got rocked by a 7.1 mag­ni­tude earth­quake over the week­end, leav­ing some nicely crafted gaps and kick­ers around the river­side sub­urbs. What bet­ter thing to do than to hit them up and have a shoot. At short notice Scotty was keen as, and shoot­ing eight wheels instead of four was a fresh change.

Might go back for more this week if the rain holds off. In the meantime—enjoy these two shots!

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In The Essence

Open the cur­tains and grab the cam­era; Han­mer Springs turn­ing on the sunrise!

Flying Solo “Don’t Be That Guy” Release

My tim­ing for get­ting back into the groove of tak­ing live pho­tos for bands in Christchurch lately couldn’t have been bet­ter; with the oppor­tu­nity to shoot our local pop/punk heroes Fly­ing Solo. They’ve been around for five years now and have finally got around to releas­ing their debut album—“Don’t Be That Guy”. Over this last week­end Fly­ing Solo filled the house two nights in a row enter­tain­ing both the drinkers, and the soon to be drinkers (I’m sure). Read the rest of this entry »

The Return Of Strung Out!

One of my favourite bands Strung Out returned recently and blew the small but loyal Christchurch crowd away. The itch to pick up the gui­tar and find some time to jam again was def­i­nitely re-ignited. I was lucky enough to cap­ture these shots from vary­ing loca­tions of the mosh­pit; quite a mis­sion get­ting thrown around with an SLR cam­era in one hand and a flash in the other, pos­si­bly stu­pid… but great fun.

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On Tour: Kitsch & None Left Standing

So I’ve finally got my com­puter back up and run­ning, mean­ing I have heaps of work to catch up on. A cou­ple of weeks ago Christchurch had the plea­sure of Auckland’s (or should I say Taranaki’s) melodic punk act Kitsch return for a long awaited South Island tour. I’ve been a fan of these guys for many years now, and see­ing our local band None Left Stand­ing get the tour sup­port was the icing on top. Kitsch have just released a new e.p. “Destroy The Lines”, and their new songs held up well live, if not even bet­ter than the record­ing in my opin­ion. Credit to them because that doesn’t hap­pen often.

The Christchurch crowd was on form as usual, though since I’ve been hiber­nat­ing from the local punk scene, the mosh­pit has since evolved into a full on wrestling match—interesting.

Any­way, scroll down and check out a few shots from the night—enjoy!

Visit these bands online: Kitsch and None Left Stand­ing.

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A Showcase On Unify!

My web con­tent edi­tor of choice, Unify have kindly show­cased my site on their home page… very cool. Check out their site to see why Enquire Design likes Unify so much.

Random I Am

Ran­dom things I notice when I’m designing…

Old School

Whilst rum­mag­ing through some old pho­tos dur­ing a back-up ses­sion, I came across this—my desk, taken in my final year at CPIT School of Art and Design. All the essen­tials were there, stereo dou­bling up as a light­box, work­book dou­bling up as a mousepad, cof­fee… what a mag­i­cal workspace/environment it was!