Author: Chris Hill

29 May Power Plant

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While teaching a group of students I took them to a reserve called Meeting of the waters, it is where an outlet from a small local hydro-electric power plant meets the main river.  Usually there is plenty of raging water coming down the river from...

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25 Apr ANZAC

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Today in New Zealand and Australia is ANZAC (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) day, a day that commemorates the men and women that fought and died in war.  It is celebrated today as it is the anniversary of when the ANZAC troops landed on...

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02 Feb The Dancer

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Following on from the photos that I have ben taking recently I had a dancer in for a shoot.  I found this to be a bit more challenging as I was unsure what to expect and had less control over how she was going to...

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18 Jan Mountain Biker

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After publishing the portraits that I have been doing lately on my blog, I got an offer to photograph Carmela and her mouton bike and I jumped at the chance.  New Plymouth has some good mountain biking just out of town and this was a...

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13 Jan The Surfer

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Taranaki has some great surfing spots,  this is one of the local surfers that I shot in another of my series of portraits of people and their activities.  I am continuing to hunt down ordinary people and photograph them out doing the activities that they...

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08 Jan The Golfer

Posted at 04:52h in chris Hill Photographer, Commercial photography, Golf, new plymouth, photography, Sport, Taranaki, Uncategorized by Chris Hill 0 Comments

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This is the latest shoot in my portrait series capturing people doing the things that they love.  This is a golfing friend on mine and I shot portraits of him as well as some action shots.  As i was using a wide angle lens for...

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29 Dec The hiker

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This is another image in my series of portraits of people doing what they love.  It is an image of my wife, she goes out hiking every week with a group of friends and loves getting away into the wilderness.  So I thought it would...

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26 Dec Young sailor

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I have been wanting to work on some sports based portraits for a while and this week I have been able to shoot the first of them.  This is a shot of a young sailor and her yacht at a New Plymouth beach.I am happy...

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15 Dec A selfie

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Not to be outdone by all the social media photographers I took a selfie today.  Wanting to try out some new techniques and having no model available I had to use myself.  I am looking to do more portraits in this style to try and...

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04 Dec Architectural shoot

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Now that summer is here again we are getting some great light. We had a long spell of great weather and a construction company asked me to shoot a house for them and then it rained. After postponing the shoot due to the weather we finally...

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