Raewyn Hillier on Latitude cover Winter 2010

Another cover on Latitude mag: over the last couple of months I’ve had fun photographing Raewyn Hillier.  She is a very interesting woman, recently seen with husband John on a  ‘Country Calendar’  episode featuring their high country hunting / guiding business.  I also photographed her working with Erewhon’s clydesdale horse team, riding her Harley and working at her day job as a flooring consultant in Christchurch.  It’s worth buying the mag just to read this article and see my photos of her!

Late light, Glenfalloch

I am still working through a backlog of photographs taken a while ago on a trip into the backcountry of the Rakaia river – this one caught some very special light one evening.  I have printed it along with some other new material to freshen up my collection at the Icehouse Gallery.

Sunrise, Glenfalloch

In this month’s NZ Geographic there is a large fold out map of Canterbury.  One of my Glenfalloch images was used for the information panels on the reverse.

Frosty sunrise, Glenfalloch

In the Dec issue of Avenues magazine there is a feature on the best place I know of for a corporate retreat.  Glenfalloch Station is set in beautiful isolation and offers great hospitality, accommodation and conference facilities. It is also one of my favourite places to photograph.  The Avenues article only used a few (including this one as a double spread on the entry page) but if you look through my portfolio you will see Glenfalloch images popping up regularly.

Chas watches a good throw

Dietlind from Glenfalloch phoned early yesterday to let me know they were shearing in case I wanted to head up and take some photos.  Of course I did.  It is one of my favourite areas and one of my personal projects is to keep building up images around shearing and woolsheds.  This was special with merinos being shorn; the super fine wool is beautiful to handle and great care is taken with the preparation and classing.  Apart from recording the process I really enjoy meeting the wonderful individuals involved, they are my kind of people.

Now I just need to sift through the dozens of great images and add the best to my woolsheds portfolio.

Thanks to Laurie Prouting of Mesopotamia Station in the Rangitata valley I added plenty of great high country images to my collection yesterday. Laurie had to fly to the back of his property to do some work, I went for the ride with him and photographed some great country in between.