A netball game at Hagley Netball Courts in Christchurch. Taken a few years ago while on a sports photography workshop.
A print of this image was awarded second place medal (silver) in the print section of the 2006 New Zealand National Photojournalism competition.
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Blue Damselfly on flax (Harakeke) leaf.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
suborder Zygoptera
Family: Lestidae
Genus: Austrolestes
Species: Austrolestes colensonis
Common name: Damselfly ( Blue/Green). Maori name is Tiemieme meaning "to lurch up and down". The males do this with their abdomen. also called kekewai
Used a 70-200mm lens with two extension tubes.
A print of this image was awarded an Honours Ribbon at the 2009 Photographic Society of New Zealand (PSNZ) National Competition/Exhibition. TV One News featured this image in the background to the interviews about the National Convention.
It was one of 30 prints touring NZ for nearly two years (2009 - 2010) in the PSNZ National Bank Touring Exhibition.
It was one of the ten prints in the set that gained my Licentiate (LPSNZ) with PSNZ in 2009.
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It was also selected (as a digital file) to represent New Zealand in the 2009 Trans-Tasman competition.
In 2010 it was selected (as a digital image) to represent NZ in the Four Nations competition between Australia, Canada, South Africa and NZ.
Champion C Grade print, Christchurch Photographic Society, 2008
Champion Natural History Print, New Brighton Photographic Club, 2008
Included in the annual PSNZ annual Camera (2013).
I am certain that if I had entered this image in the previous year's NATEX (PSNZ National Competition) it would have received a medal as (IMHO) an inferior damselfly pic got a bronze medal that year.
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20080112_3366_1D3-400 Airborne Rescue
One of my most succesful images in photo competitions. Canon 1D Mk III and 400mm f5.6 L
Champion PJ print in the 2008 Dunedin Festival of Photography and made it onto the cover of the exhibition catalogue (although not in colour).
Included in the 2009 edition of New Zealand Camera.
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20090614_1197_1D3-400 Pied Shag with eel
Common name: Pied Shag, Latin: Phalacrocorax varius (with eel).
This image (as a print) gained an Honours Ribbon in the 2010 Photographic Society of New Zealand (PSNZ) National Competition/Exhibition.
400mm f5.6L on a 1D Mk III
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The heads to Lyttelton Harbour taken from the New Brighton Pier on a day with some sea fog.
This image won a bronze medal in the 2010 Laurie Thomas New Zealand Landscape Salon organised by Christchurch Photographic Society. I had entered three of what I thought were "good landscapes" into the competition and added this to make up the numbers (4 allowed), but looking at the results, the judges in 2010 liked misty ethereal type images, so this succeeded while the others failed.
I was asked to produce an audio-visual (AV) of this competition for the organisers and when I was given all the info, one of them said "you will be pleased". It wasn't till I was going through all the successful images that I found I had been awarded a bronze medal.
Champion Landscape (digital), New Brighton Photographic Club, 2010
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