I was lucky enough to shoot Wheels magazines COTY (Car Of The Year). A huge amount of time and energy goes into picking the car. 57 cars were tested this year and the Golf GTI was the stand out.

Here are some shots from a recent shoot for Top Gear Magazine at Holden’s Lang Lang Proving Ground in Melbourne.
Its pretty strange working with the Stig.
I explain to the him that I was worried about standing in a particular location to get an action shot. At the mention of him hitting me, he looks directly at me and shakes his head. No words, not a sound… and in true Stig style, he drifted the car past me 4 times perfectly.

Retouching is one of those things that seems to always be kept under the rug. Unfortunately it has become a standard in this digital age… and to be honest, I would prefer to be outside shooting rather than being in front of the computer going square-eyed. Sometimes, though its unavoidable. Here are 2 examples.

This first image was shot for NRMA – Open Road Magazine.
I had to shoot a cover shot of 4 cars. I was only given about 1/2 an hour to shoot the cars and the only elevated position I could get had a pretty ugly background.

Here are a few shots from a recent trip to Canberra for Top Gear Magazine. We had an interesting mix of locations.

I was lucky enough to be part of this amazing trip for Wheels magazine.
I was asked to shoot the first 2 legs of the trip. This entailed 9 days of driving/shooting with about 1000km to drive per-day. Limited to one bag (For clothes and camera gear) it was a struggle for me to pack only a couple of lenses and single camera body, but man was it fun! I began the trip in Melbourne with motoring journalist Steve Nally. We spent the next….

Here are 9 recent cover shots.

We headed out to Tugalong Recreation Park for a full day shoot with Australian Dirt Bike Magazine.
It was a long day. There was a number of bike comparisons and also their cover shot in the afternoon.
We came up with a fire concept for the cover a few weeks before. The bike on the cover was a new Chinese built machine that uses all the new technology but its price point is almost half as much as all its competitors.

Check out the behind the scenes video from the cover shoot: We managed to get the cover in 5 shots.