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Check out some of my recent work, and my essays on Photographing The Arts!

Today in New Zealand International Arts Festival history: The Trial of the Cannibal Dog rehearsals (2008)

Sometimes, images are needed for an upcoming Festival production before it actually happens - so I'm off to the rehearsal hall to capture the stage it's at currently, in this case for the programme people will get on the night of the show.

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Today in New Zealand International Arts Festival history: Festival Setup (2008)

I always have one big folder of images on my hard drive during the Festival that's just labelled "Festival Setup"; it's the catch-all for photos of people building stuff, wiring things, whipping the whole thing into shape.  And it's important, because years later when there's a new crew working on the Festival, it can be that the images are the only record we have of how a certain temporary venue was situated on the site, where the power came from, or how a stage went into Shed 6, and so on. It's also often part of the early publicity for the Festival - giving people the sense that something is happening, in the weeks before shows actually start to happen on stages, building the anticipation.  At least, I like to think so!

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Today in New Zealand International Arts Festival history: The Lindbergh Flight rehearsal (2008)

With the New Zealand International Arts Festival coming up soon (from Feb 21 - Mar 16 this year), and as this is the first one I'll miss since I started working with them in 1998, I thought I'd have my own festival of photos, from the time I spent as their sole photographer from 2004 to 2012.  I'm going to have a look through my archives, and pull out a few - but not TOO many - images that might not have been seen at the time, but that I like looking back at now.

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A Field Guide To The Birders of Southern Ontario (new Kage Collective post, with the Fuji X-Pro 1)

Just in time for Australia Day this weekend, here's an essay of images of...Canada, last summer.  New today on the Kage Collective site, it's the first essay for 2014, and it's one of mine!  Stop on over and have a look...

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Lorde at Goodgod Club, Sydney May 2013 (with Fuji X-Pro 1 & 60mm f/2.4 lens)

With the Grammys coming up, and New Zealand singer/songwriter Lorde nominated and  performing at the ceremony, it reminded me to take another look in my archive & find a few photos I took at her showcase gig in Sydney, back in May of this year - before anyone really knew just how big her fame would get!

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Don McGlashan & Dave Dobbyn at the Basement, Sydney

Another 'catching up on photos I should have posted' post - here's one from late last year, when Kiwi singer / songwriters Don McGlashan (from The Mutton Birds, Blam Blam Blam, From Scratch and The Front Lawn) and Dave Dobbyn (Th'Dudes & DD Smash) joined forces for a tour to the UK via Dubai - and a couple of dates in Australia en route.

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Pond at the Metro Theatre, December 2013

While I'm catching up on photos I meant to post at the time, here's a quick one from Pond's gig at the Metro Theatre in December - I didn't take very many, as I was just there to enjoy the show, but when they were swarmed on stage by support act Doctopus for the final number I thought I'd best grab a few images before the moment slipped away...

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