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!

A star in their eyes – 1968 Ford Galaxie 500

“Everyone asks that until they take a closer look,” says its owner today, Brent Harris of Auckland. “They also ask if I’ve done the restoration myself, and I have to tell them no, it is 100 per cent original. It’s the paint listed in the handbook.”
It was the original condition of the car that won Brent over from the moment he first saw it — that and the fact “it just looks stunning”.
Brent had owned a 1968 Mark II Cortina for four years. It was in need of some work and the question arose whether to spend the money or get something different. You don’t get much more divergent than Ford’s different approaches to its markets in the UK and the USA.

Bob’s Bambina video

Bob McMurray has spent a lifetime inside Formula 1, including 33 years he and wife, Shaune, spent working for McLaren from his earliest days as a mechanic through to watching Scott Dixon’s first Kiwi win at Indianapolis. Bob is now one of our top motorsport commentators and Toyota Racing New Zealand’s ambassador, a role he relishes.
Bob now owns this restored Fiat 500 F. The story of how he became its owner almost by accident and of its restoration is one of those that has ended well, and it was a bit of a laugh getting there. Bob’s Fiat actually has a distant McLaren connection.
This is a short video of Bob’s Fiat Bambina shot by Classic Car magazine