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Think you’re a photographer? Prove it

6 May, 2015

Our sister title, D-Photo magazine, is currently holding New Zealand’s largest amateur photography competition and they’ve got some incredible prizes up for grabs in their prize pool, which has totalled to $15,500. If you reckon you’re a budding photographer we suggest you get over to dphoto.co.nz/apoty immediately and start submitting your images.

There are eight categories for you to get amongst: Action, sponsored by GoPro; Creative, sponsored by White Studios; Junior (this is a new one for 16–24-year-olds), sponsored by the Universal College of Learning (UCOL); Landscape, sponsored by Progear; Monochrome, sponsored by Ilford; Nature, sponsored by Vanguard; People, sponsored by Profoto; and Travel, sponsored by Momento.

By entering your images into the competition, you could get a share in the $15,500 prize pool, which includes a selection of Sigma lens products worth $3000, and thousands of dollars worth of camera gear and accessories.

Get submitting now!

To finish first, first, you must build a winner

5 February, 2025

Can-Am royalty
Only three M20s were built, including the car that was destroyed at Road Atlanta. This car was later rebuilt. All three cars were sold at the end of the 1972 season. One of the cars would score another Can-Am victory in 1974, driven by a privateer, but the M20’s day was done. Can-Am racing faded away at the end of that season and was replaced by Formula 5000.
These days the cars are valued in the millions. It was unlikely that I would ever have seen one in the flesh if it hadn’t been that one day my editor asked me if I would mind popping over to Taranaki and having a look at a pretty McLaren M20 that somebody had built in their shed.
That is how I came to be standing by the car owned and built by truck driver Leon Macdonald.

Lunch with … Roly Levis

31 January, 2025

Lunching was not allowed during Covid 19 Lockdowns so our correspondent recalled a lunch he had with legendary New Zealand racing driver Rollo Athol Levis shortly before he died on 1 October 2013 at the age of 88. Michael Clark caught up with Roly and members of his family over vegetable soup