NZPhotographer Issue 56, June 2022

I am a portrait, lifestyle, landscape and food photographer. Originally
from Oamaru, I started a photography business in Titirangi with my late
wife Cath in 2014 and now work out of my North Dunedin studio gallery.
I enjoy shooting with studio lights and love colour, especially reds and
oranges. I find the lights give me greater control over the narrative...
and colour, well, colour is colour! My style tends to be a combination of
‘lifestyle’, and ‘fine-art’ photography – with a touch of creative lighting.
grenfell.co.nz
MEMORIES OF THE MANIOTOTO
I was first introduced to the Maniototo on an organised tour by Christchurch
based photographer Scott Fowler back in 2019. Based at Wedderburn, we visited
various parts of the district, and I immediately fell in love with some old shearers’
huts in front of the Hawkdun Range. A spot often referred to as “somewhere near
Taupo”.
I’ve managed to return there a few times, each visit different to the last.
We caught a brilliant sunrise one time, but unfortunately, that tour was cut short by
a COVID lockdown. We had been hunting snow but with no joy.
After lockdown, I returned with friends, and we were there when the Maniototo
was hit by 2021’s largest snowstorm. The morning was still and peaceful, and
wading knee-deep through the snow from the main track, I stood once again in
front of the huts, managing to get some shots in just before the snow melted and
slipped off the roof of the front building.
No two visits to that spot are ever the same, and I‘ll be back there again in mid-
June, chasing snow in the Maniototo once more!
NZPhotographer
June 2022
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