Booksellers NZ 98th Conference
A portrait made immediately after John Allen, Chief Executive and Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade spoke at the Booksellers NZ 89th Conference on “Nation-Building with Books” – John stands in front of a display that was created for the conference made out of books. John’s presentation really impressed me for the passion and enthusiasm [...]
New Zealand Post Book Awards Ceremony 2010
Here is a link to a full write up of this fantastic event put on by Booksellers NZ and sponsored by NZ Post… Click the photo to view my gallery of select images from the event.
Silver Ferns vs Samoa Netball Test match shots posted
PhotoSport (a photo agency selling to the media) had me shoot Saturday’s international netball test match between New Zealand (Silver Ferns) and Samoa. The photos are now posted for sale on their site. You can view the shots from this link. Netball Silver Ferns vs Samoa August 7, 2010 – Images by Mark Tantrum
End Game play showing at Downstage Theater – I shot the opening cocktail hour
The Wellington City Council commissioned me to shoot the opening party for End Game, a play put on by Capital E and showing at Downstage Theater. I worked closely with the Capital E folks in getting names and submitting the images to the Dominion Post for their weekend deadline. The Dom ran this review and [...]
Roller Derby mayhem, I am a total fan of this sport now…
On Saturday I was lucky enough to be allowed access to photograph the Richter City Shakedown Stop Drop and Roll Roller Derby. It was held at the TSB Arena on Queens Wharf here in Wellington. I arrived early and set up, getting some good time to do test shots. The idea was to get some [...]
Pushing the envelope and getting yelled at by the Principal!
So here I am in Sunny California doing some freelance photography for the month of June. My first assignment for the Silicon Valley Community Newspapers was the coverage of the Willow Glen High School graduation. This year, the brief included the stipulation that all photographers must get full names of all students. This presents a [...]
Wellington City Council cellebrates creativity at Gold Awards
In my first assignment for the Wellington City Council, I photographed the Annual Gold Awards. The brief was to be there for the whole event, making sure to capture the cocktail hour, the Mayor Kerry Prendergast, and other counselors at the three sponsored tables at the event. I was really impressed by the speech that [...]
John Travolta arrives at Melbourne Airport
John Travolta arrives in Melbourne – Images by Mark Tantrum While traveling in Australia I was fortunate enough to be given press access to the reception for John Travolta in Australia organized by Qantas. My media outlet was New Zealand Travel Digest. Like Mr. Travolta, I was there to see the Melbourne Grand Prix. It [...]
Art and wine festival at Saratoga
I was lucky enough to get assigned the cover story for the Saratoga News this week. It was to cover the Art and Wine festival called Taste of Saratoga. Its an annual event held in Big Basin Way, the main street in the downtown area. I started by myself at the bottom of the street, [...]
Happy accident
I was shooting an assignment for the City of Santa Clara libraries today and happened upon this scene. The little boy and the image of George Washington happened to be both doing a strangely similar thing! This was pure coincidence, I was photographing the family earlier and had their permission and blessing. I was walking [...]
Volleyball shoot #2 – Thursday night 4/2/09
I went with a flash guns a blazing, I took 2 strobes with pocket wizards, and attached up in the rafters of the high school gymnasium.
Saratoga vs Lynbrook boys Varsity Volleyball match 4-1-09
I attended the match and shot for the Saratoga News and Cupertino Courier. The match ended up going to 4 games which meant I shot for almost 2 hours. It meant I had time for plenty of shots- I rattled off about 950 frames during the course of the games. I used the new Nikon [...]
KO Cupertino Courier and Sunnyvale Sun Cover stories – Propo Mini-Z Grand Prix, held March 7 at the Cupertino Square Mall
I have always been interested in racing cars- but not always a fan of radio controlled cars. I had one when I was growing up. Working with my Dad during a trade show, he bought be a hugely expensive offroad RC car which I had for years. I never took it further, until today. In [...]
Campbell Reporter Cover Story published March 13, 2009
On March 6, 2009 I went to downtown Campbell after having my birthday celebration dinner with family to shoot the First Friday Celebration ‘Luck O’ the Irish.’ When I arrived I took this first shot that turned out to be the cover. These two girls stood out as really well dressed in costume from down [...]
Published in San Jose Business Journal
A recent edition of the San Jose Business Journal featured a couple of my shots. Geo week was an amazing fund raising initiative by the students that raised money to Free the Children Fund.