MARILYN

Well not quite but a good show all the same at a corporate event shot for Mondo Travel last weekend.

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT NZ

I was recently doing some work out on Rangitoto Island - what a neat place, heaps of history and so much more to it than a walk to the summit. What started out as a personal project had been picked up by an editorial client and I'd spent a day shooting the old historic baches. I'd got some really nice stuff of the baches but was struggling to get inside one for a couple of shots just to round out the piece. So on my way out there on the 7.30am ferry for my last bit of shooting I got talking to few guys who were also going to Rangi. It turned out Lynn and his mates were heading out to do a bit of roofing work on Lynn's bach. Lynn had been going to Rangi for over 60 years and was pretty passionate about the place. As soon as I told him I was out there doing some photography work he invited me into his bach to take some shots inside. Not only that he put the jug on and brewed a hot coffee, brought out the chocolate biscuits, and filled me in on some of the history of the island. Sometimes its easy to forget how friendly Kiwis can be to a random stranger.