It's been a while - but.

It's been a while since my last post. However, I have been working very hard in my photography business in Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand. A famous British musician once described my beautiful town as "the arsehole of the world", more fool him as our air has been described as a fine champagne and Britain has the smog and vehicle congestion problem. A new addition to my business is a website I've been working on for a while
www. maheno.co.nz It's a work in progress and along with this blog , which I plan to update more regular will give my customers a more personal feel for my business and what I do. I've tried to make it as simple as possible so my client can see (A) easy navigation (B) he can take good pictures (C) for contact details.
My business is geared towards advertising photography as more and more work is coming from that sector. Especially, the advertisers with the small to medium budget.
I'm off this week to the far north of New Zealand to a small Maori settlement called Pamapuria to a family members 60th birthday, it's my dad's family area. I'm taking my camera and I hope to get some good pictures of that areas rural Maori community so I hope to post a couple of pictures. My wife and I are staying on a marae with family and can't wait to see everyone.
The whole week I've been weighing up my options with what camera gear to take. Do I take digital which is heavy and means a lot of weight or do I take analog and a bit of film. I do like the the instant results of digital but I'd have to take my laptop and a couple of lenses. But I'm traveling light so I've settled for a small Leica M6 rangefinder and a 35mm lense.
I'll just have to wait until I get back to get the film processed.
I live in a small city of 50,000 people to get away to a small community of less than 100 will be great.

Don't Stop Me Now

"Lest we Forget" 2003

The above image won an award for me last year. It was my first award and first slice of recognition. Hopefully not my last award either. Although, I think I could be more proactive in entering more art awards and competitions. I try to keep my photographs, at least the ones I exhibit, as simple as possible. The photo was taken at an Anzac Day commemoration close to my home. Anzac stands for, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, which served together in Gallipoli, Turkey. Thousands of Kiwis and Aussies died and this is our way of remembering them. "Lest we Forget"

Welcome To My Blog

Good morning world!
Today is a good day. So, far be it that I write pages and pages of babble that are not worth a pinch of salt and slide off the bottom of the screen and into the ether that is the Internet.

Oh no I don't have a lot of time. My posts will be short and sweet and have very little meaningless drivel.
I would like to use this forum to post some comment on anything that I think is worthwhile and post photographs so my clients can come and view some of my work. It will be a work in progress as I value my time and won't be able to write for hours on end. I do have a young family and time at their young age is precious so sitting writing all day for no reward is not high on my agenda.

What I would like to start a discussion on is travel, hunting, politics of other countries, small business strategies and literature. I'm far from being an expert on any of these topics they are interests and I am willing to listen and learn from people that know a lot more that I do.


I shot the above photograph of my son at the after match function of his rugby game. It was taken inside the clubroom and he'd just acquired a bottle of fizzy and a pie from his coach.