camping season!

I've finished my studies, summer is here, think its time to pack my bags and get out of the urban jungle, and into the real world! First stop The Catlins.

After packing away my site exhibition and clearing out my room I packed some warm clothes, my surfboard and took off with about 10 others.

Conditions weren't looking amazing for camping but the surf was pumping so it was fair to say I was frothing!

We found a secluded little spot away from the wind, saw seals and a family of yellow eyed penguins, the swell was pounding the cliffs with unstoppable force.

View of the surf from a cave that had been carved out by waves.

Alex scaling the rock face showing us to a cave.

John on top of the world

It was awesome to wake up to the sound of birds, sheep and the ocean instead of the sounds you hear in cities, good to get back to nature for a weekend and I will be returning very soon!

SITE 09

Done and dusted! Last night we had the opening of SITE 09 the Graduate exhibition of the Dunedin School of Art and it went off! Hundreds of people showed up to see the 70+ students final works.

Today was the SITE festival day which was open to the public with many more people showing up.

Heres a few pictures of some of what was on show.

A ceramic work by John Paxie

Checkin out Emma Chalmers' awesome paintings



Installation by Shelley Harding


Me and Viets space, was hard to move at some points!

Leoni the head of the Art School opens the Exhibition.

GLOW WORMS!!!!

We recently discovered that theres an amazing Glow Worm community 5 minutes away from my flat!! What other city could you find glow worms or any native bush this close to the urban jungle? Only Dunedin! I took my tripod up and attempted to capture the little critters.

I ended up using a torch to light up the ferns and if you enlarge this image you can see the little blue lights of the glow worms.


This is the river you walk up to get to the glow worms

studios are funnnnnnnn

business cards, check

Got my business cards done finally, they are like this except i removed the list of areas (event, portraiture etc) and just added 'Bachelor of Fine Arts' in the bottom right corner. Didn't want to categorise my work too much until I fully have a business plan and defined my market a bit more.

Chill out bro!

After an intense day of trying (and failing) to sort out Site work I decided I needed a break to clear my head so Dan and I went out to the beach. We caught up with a mate Glen who lives in his truck. The waves were big and we didn't bother going out but it was good to chill out and watch the waves rolling in from the warmth of Glen's Truck.

John Browns Body

I photographed an epic gig on the weekend. The Blackseeds featuring John Browns Body. The Blackseeds were awesome as always they got the crowd of 700+ rocking, Sammys was cranking!

It was really good to see John Browns Body, a reggae band from New York. They played before The Blackseeds and got everyone amped up on reggae vibes. They are an 8 piece band with a unique rootsy reggae sound. Stoked I got to see them and have a chat to them backstage, awesome night!


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