Ngaire the star

I've now shot a few features about caravans for NZ Life & Leisure magazine, and the latest one was a bit special - the caravan was ours and it was for the Jan/Feb cover. We hit the road for a weekend shoot to the Central Hawkes Bay back in October in Ngaire, our 1955 Starliner bubble caravan and the mag is out this week. She's had some work done by the retoucher at the publishers especially for the cover - of course I don't own a pink caravan! It's quite a tough assignment shooting yourself for a magazine story, everything felt very set-up and contrived but hopefully the results were worth it. Ngaire in all her glory is in stores now - check her out.

Lucy and Brian

I photographed my first wedding of the season on Saturday and it was a good'n. I was so excited, I've turned the images around in record time [at least a record for me]. The wedding was at The Wellesley Hotel on a grey ol' day in the capital - perfect for an intimate indoor wedding in a grown-up setting. Love it.

Keep'n it real

It's about time I showed the blog some love after a busy few months. This week we finished production on a spot for Contact Energy to promote the Contact Triathlon Series. Produced with/for Zephyr WPD and Rainger Connect. We shot this sucker in Wellington, Tauranga and Rotorua on the Canon 7d at 50 frames-per-second so we could peg the action back to a gentle slow-motion. The brief was for a raw/photo-journalistic feel, fly-on-the-wall stuff and the triathletes we used were actual, real-life triathletes. When you want real, nothing beats reality.

Contact Tri Series promo from Mike Heydon on Vimeo.