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Action Photography Assignments
Bluff Hill Climb – Open class
This gallery features 11 of 13 riders competing in the Open Class who competed in Bluff Promotions’ NZ Hill Climb Champs, Thursday 26 November 2016.
Bluff Hill Climb – Pre ‘89
Bluff Promotions NZ Hill Climb Champs, Thursday 26 November 2016.
Bluff Hill Climb Pre ‘63 class
Day 1 of the 2015 Burt. The Bluff Hill Climb.
Bluff Hill Pre ‘82 class 2015
Day 1 of the 2015 Burt. The Bluff Hillclimb.
Bluff Hillclimb – Up to 600 cc
These shots showcase most of the riders & machines in the Up to 600cc Class who turned on the roaring spectacle on the streets of small town Bluff.
Hampton Downs Summer Classic racing 2015
The main focus of the Hampton Downs Summer Classic weekend for VRNZ was the Eldee Velocette.
Invercargill Street Races: Classic Pre ‘63 & ‘72
Five riders in the Pre ’63 and 4 in the Post Classic Pre ‘72 Class racing together at the new Invercargill Street Races Circuit on Sunday 29 November 2015.
Invercargill Street Races: Pre ‘63 & Pre ‘72
In the gallery five riders in the Pre ’63 and 4 in the Post Classic Pre ‘72 Class are featured racing together.
Invercargill Street Races: Velocette 1, 2, 3
Three galleries of the Class winning Velocettes competing at the Honda Invercargill Street Races, Sunday 29 November 2015.
Teretonga Pre ‘63 & Post Classic Pre ‘72
This gallery features 9 machines from two classes ranging from a 1954 AJS 7R 350, to a 1972 Triton Norton Triumph 750.
Teretonga Races: The KTT trio & Big Velo
Teretonga Circuit Races, Saturday 28th November, 2015.Teretonga Circuit Races, Saturday 28th November, 2015.
Velos at Teretonga practice day
Three Velocette Racing New Zealand galleries shot at the Teretonga Circuit on Practice Day, Friday 27th November 2015.
Velos at the Burt 2015: Megaphones on Bluff Hill
The girder forks class features Phil Price’s superb collection of original 70–80 year old Velocette racing machines.
Advertising or Lifestyle Photography Assignments
BabyBliss rebrand & brochure makeover
To design a brochure that sells, the key is simple: Keep all eyes on the product. Many people are not in the market for nursery furniture. The way to profits is to visualise those who are interested and present your nursery furniture to them.
Before & Aftereffects
A picture is worth a thousand words but a good-looking picture is worth much more. Avoid the use of poor images for your promotions.
Blue collar portraits of mechanics
Eight Mechanical Shop staff perform all mechanical repairs and servicing, rewiring, electrical upgrades and the rebuilding of all types of engines.
Custom Coachbuilders’ portraits
With mastery in wood, steel and aluminium the two coachbuilders, working along with the autobody Panel Shop team of six, construct custom coachwork one-off designs from scratch as well as restoring existing bodies.
Eldee-2 Velocette I.O.M. Classic racer launch
The equipped & race-ready 1956 250cc Velocette Special.
Machine Shop skilled workforce photos
Auto Restorations’ automotive engineering machine shop is well equipped and staffed by seasoned experts. This allows them to make or recondition any mechanical part they need to restore a car, almost without exception.
MTC Equipment
Bespoke commercial & agricultural transport trailer import firm.
Paint shop staff photos
Historic finish! Auto Restorations’ two spray painters work in a modern facility that was purpose built to achieve award winning finishes—the utmost in appearance and durability.
Panel shop expert workforce
With a close eye to the fit and finish of their work perfect alignment and even gaps are achieved to multi-international Concours award winning standard, one of the more challenging aspects of automobile restoration.
Phil Price mini portfolio
A pocket-size showcase brochure of Phil Price’s kinetic works in a custom, hand made carbon fibre clam.
Phil Price Sculpture web makeover
A strong, fresh web catalogue of these mesmerising wind-activated kinetic works that have achieved international renown. For me, graphic design, at its best, tells a compelling visual story…
Pomeroy’s pub newsletter
THE QUARTERLY POMEROY’S Old Brewery Inn and restaurant newsletter had a name inspired by their brand, “The Pomeroy’s Press”, it was designed and laid out with a look that made the news.
Poster design portfolio
A successful poster demands a clear, strong, single-minded focus so that all elements ’speak’ in a single voice that engages the audience.
Radiator shop staff photos
Custom vintage car and aircraft radiators are restored or manufactured to their original beautiful condition and the highest care for their originality in brass, copper and German Silver.
Terranova tiling’s portfolio website
Responsive website & branding for leading Christchurch firm of craftsman tilers. The much admired successful outcome has a strong, clear, consistent focus.
White collar staff informal portraits
These photos of admin staff were shot and photo composites produced 2009–2012, they offer a historical profile of Auto Restorations during that time.
Documentary Photography Assignments
Box Culvert install methodology 1/5
Installation of a 2.5 m box culvert beneath the Tranzalpine main trunk railway on the Otira riverbed, against the clock.
Eldee-2 Velocette I.O.M. Classic racer launch
The equipped & race-ready 1956 250cc Velocette Special.
Horizontal Drilling Akaroa methodology
Drilling a pilot bore & back-reaming a 120m long water supply pipe up the Old Coach Road, Akaroa.
Horizontal Drilling: Parklands
Continuing the ongoing project to photograph TruLine Civil’s range of work methodologies and then follow through by writing them up as Case Studies on their website. I was contracted to document the span of a day on location in Akaroa. The brief is to record a fine-grained record of TLC’s capability in the relatively new Civil Engineering field […]
Phil Price Sculpture Tree of Life install
Documenting the Installation methodology of the 10 m tall Tree of Life, wind-activated kinetic sculpture , Melbourne, Dec 2012.
Phil Price Sculpture Zephyrometer re-install
Documenting the reinstallation methodology of the Zephyrometer wind sculpture to its Wellington home, April 2014.
Event Photography Assignments
Pomeroy’s Halloween Party 2008
Galleries of good social event photography should be an energetic expression of the real event, which was such a great time. The photos need to do justice to it by conveying all of the paranormal pestilence and deadly energy of the night, and the sense of place, a Halloween Party in Christchurch’s favourite old English pub.
‘Only two for Everest’ book launch event
A friend’s father, Ed Cotter, has had a biographical book ‘Only two for Everest’ by author Lyn McKinnon published. This post contains galleries of the book launch event at the Sumner Surf Life Saving Club last Thursday night, 6 October 2016.
Phil Price Sculpture Photography Assignments
Phil Price mini portfolio
A pocket-size showcase brochure of Phil Price’s kinetic works in a custom, hand made carbon fibre clam.
Phil Price Sculpture Opto kinetic short
Short film of the 10m kinetic sculpture “Opto”.
Phil Price Sculpture Tree of Life install
Documenting the Installation methodology of the 10 m tall Tree of Life, wind-activated kinetic sculpture , Melbourne, Dec 2012.
Phil Price Sculpture Tree of Life kinetic short
Short film of the 12m tall kinetic sculpture.
Phil Price Sculpture web makeover
A strong, fresh web catalogue of these mesmerising wind-activated kinetic works that have achieved international renown. For me, graphic design, at its best, tells a compelling visual story…
Phil Price Sculpture website photography
Gallery of mesmerising kinetic sculptures in Australia & N.Z.
Phil Price Sculpture Zephyrometer portraits
Zephyrometer is a 26 m tall wind activated kinetic sculpture in Wellington, New Zealand.
Phil Price Sculpture Zephyrometer re-install
Documenting the reinstallation methodology of the Zephyrometer wind sculpture to its Wellington home, April 2014.
Photojournalism Assignments
Eldee-2 Velocette I.O.M. Classic racer launch
The equipped & race-ready 1956 250cc Velocette Special.
Exhibition of Pomeroy’s pub locals 2003–10
The Pomeroy’s Press published one “locals like…” and one staff bio feature article every issue with beautifully lit photos of happy people—In addition to document the frequent social events organised and hosted by Pomeroy’s, the pub newspaper’s photographers were on hand to shoot galleries of great photos for the pub newsletter and web galleries for the pub’s website.
Silver Cloud Launch Event
A documentary photo essay that I shot of the fabulous Silver Cloud 100% Pure Agave liquor launch event at Nicola’s Cantina in Nelson New Zealand, December 2014.
Welcoming “Meet The Staff” articles: More than a mugshot
Going above and beyond showing staff faces is important and beneficial to improve connection with Pomeroy’s pub clientele. Showing the faces of the real people behind the scenes working at Pom’s in their newsletter is beneficial to the pub’s connection with its base and reinforces the lived experience the pub is a welcoming family business.
Wildlife Photography Assignments
Mario, wild orangutan Borneo
Orangutan are an almost exclusively arboreal species, so the glimpse we got of this teenage male named Mario, early in the morning from our riverboat, was an extraordinary treat.
Where the wild things are
Visiting Orana Park offers a unique opportunity for the self-assignment of exercising your photography skills.
