Nationals - New Zealand Ice Figure Skating Championships 2025 (sport-event photographers)

Its a big honour to be invited to be an official photographer for New Zealand Ice Figure Skating Championships 2025 that took place in Auckland, NZ this year. Its a big sport event with many skaters coming from South and North Island and even from overseas.

4 days filled with passion, power and grace, such a pleasure to photograph, especially because I myself an adult skater and my daughter also skating in Basic Novice grade. If you ask, she did really well this year, ended up with a Silver medal in her grade. So much of a hard work and commitment to this beautiful sport!

Enjoy highlights of these exciting events with top level skaters representing New Zealand (Yahao - Dwayn Li, Petra Lahti, Renee Tsai and more talented upcoming skaters).

Allegro Championships (sport photography in Auckland)

Winter time is a slow time for weddings and couples shoots as often rains and weather not so amazing, but its perfect for indoor events, including sports photography.

Im so grateful for an opportunity to give back to skating community and capture all ice figure skating competitions in Auckland, New Zealand. As a skater and mum of a skater myself I love to observe the moments of beauty, power and grace and capture best moments possible, amazing memories for skaters and their family!

Enjoy highlights of another club competitions in winter season - Allegro Championships! Wedding season is coming soon! Perfect timing to finish sport photography and move into pre-wedding, family and elopements photography.

Glenburn Championship Highlights - Ice Figure Skating Photography New Zealand

Its been a bit quiet here as I been away in Europe, to participate in Adult Ice Skating competitions in Oberstdorf, Germany, such a big world event for adult skaters. It was unusual to have this competitions held in the summer heat (it was 30-35 degrees, so almost impossible to walk outside. Best places to be was ice rink and top of the Nebelhorn mountain. Luckily gondolas been working this time, so we went there a few times, and even took pictures in our skating dresses.

I enjoyed time in Europe with all the yummy cakes and food, meeting with old and new friends and training camp with world best coaches. Surprisingly, I took 2nd place and beautiful trophy in my free skating program and truly enjoyed to skate first time my artistic program.

It was such a positive trip and amazing experience. You can check photos in my Social Media - Instagram @olgalevien

After I come back with a big jetlag, shortly it was time to take my usual role - a photographer at competitions in Paradice Avondale (last weekend). Time for passion, love and fire on ice with amazing performances.

What a competition full of power, grace and love to skating - from little ones to adults, everyone living the same passion on the ice!

Enjoy Glenburn Championship Highlights (ice figure skating photography in Auckland, New Zealand).

Clucas Cup - Ice figure skating photography

As many of you already know, ice skating is one of my favourite activities to do, together with photography, and when both of them comes together its a dream come true.

It was a honour for me to be asked by NZIFSA to be an official photographer for Clucas cup - Selection ice figure skating competitions with top skaters competing first event of the season in New Zealand, including Dwayne Li, Petra Lahti, Renee Tsai, Cara Tang, Mirika Armstrong, Nicca Wu, Mia Chen and other talented NZ figure skaters (including my daughter Anna-Bella).

It was fire on ice with all the passion, grace and power. Such a beautiful moments to photograph!

Enjoy highlights of these competitions!

I can not wait to photograph more competitions this season together with Nationals that coming in October.

Exciting times ahead!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (Auckland engagement and wedding photographer)

Its this time of the year again, celebrating special events and success of the year, looking forward to next year exciting and making plans!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all the couples and families! It was such a pleasure to share with you all the beautiful, emotional and real moments in Auckland: engagement, pre-wedding photo shoots in stunning locations, family sessions on the beach, business branding headshots, gorgeous weddings with close friends and family! So many memories for years to come!

Enjoy these quick highlights of the year and Im looking forward to capture more meaningful moments next year - 2025! Exciting times ahead!

From my personal achievements - I been in World Winter Master Games in Italy and took 5th place in ice figure skating, also had skating trips in Oberstdorf (Germany), Sydney (Aus), Melbourne (Aus), and New Zealand Nationals in Christchurch (taking 2nd place). It was a honour to be an official photographer for few skating competitions through the season and capture all the moments of power and grace (from beginner to senior level, including Dwayne Yahao Li, first NZ Youth Olympics medalist)! It’s great when my personal sport hobby connects to professional - photography! Love my work!

Also my kids are finished primary and intermediate school, so new beginnings for our family next year!

I can not wait to see what future brings!

Merry Christmas to you and your family and a Happy New Year!

Sports Event Photography (Auckland photographer) - Ice Figure Skating

If you are wondering what Im up to in between of wedding seasons. The answer is simple - I’m not only skating myself as an adult ice skater (and have my daughter skating), but also happy to help skating community and capture sports event photography in Auckland (and experienced event photographer by now shooting over 10 seasons) - my favourite ice figure skating competitions during the skating season (which falls perfectly in between of my favourite couples and weddings, family photo shoots). When weather not so nice with big chance of rain, and wind on the beach, great to spent time inside to enjoy warm atmosphere at competitions.

Perfect for me to put together two of my passions - photography and skating!

This year I been asked to be an official photographer for three sport events - competitions in Auckland: Skate Academy Competitions, Allegro Championship and North Island Championships.

Enjoy these moments of beauty, power and grace in photo gallery highlights:

Allegro Artistic Competitions (Auckland event photographer)

As some of you may know I love figure skating, figure skater myself, and often get asked to capture ice skating competitions, which Im happy to do to give back to skating community and enjoy all the beauty, power and grace on the ice.

This time it was Allegro Artistic competitions in Auckland - very last competitions of the year and skating season.

Skaters get the opportunity to relax, have fun and choose any character and create a fun or emotional routine specially for this competitions.

Our team (me and my husband) get chance to photograph all these moments, as I been skating performing my new program myself and then switched into shooting mode!

Enjoy highlights of Allegro Artistic Competitions! Happy New Year!

Hopefully this year brings lots of positive emotions, love and laughter!

Such a great way to finish the year on the high!

North Island Ice Figure Skating Championship (Sport photography in Auckland)

As some of you may know I recently been asked to photograph ice skating competitions, and it was a pleasure to see all the power and grace on the ice. This time I been asked to be an official photographer for North Island Ice Figure Skating Championship, last competitions of the season in Auckland.

Such a beautiful and graceful sport, that I love to do myself!

Enjoy highlights of this amazing competitions!

Good luck all skaters participating in Nationals in Dunedin. Not long to go now!

Allegro Ice Figure Skating Competitions highlights (sport photography in Auckland)

Some of you may know I love ice figure skating and doing it myself as an adult skater and participating in various competitions around the world.

Thats why when figure skating community asked me to be an official photographer for upcoming Allegro competitions, I can’t say no, and truly enjoyed to capture all the moments of beauty, power and grace,

Enjoy highlights of this year Allegro competitions!

European holidays

If you noticed its been a bit quiet here as I just spent a few weeks in Europe - traveling and participating in ISU Adult Ice Figure Skating competitions in Oberstdorf (Germany). Perfect timing at the end of the busy season with so many weddings and sessions! I needed to change the atmoosphere! :)

It was a fun time full of positive emotions, fulfilled with beautiful connections with people, making old and new friends, supporting each other in a warm and welcoming atmosphere; connecting to the beautiful nature of Bavarian Alpine village - can you imagine cows walking on the street waking everyone up at mornings with their bells.

Place to be surrounded by gorgeous mountains!

Enjoy highlights of the trip and a few photos from the competitions! Its always fun to be creative and express yourself in a different way. I didnt had much time to take photos, so here only a few :)

Skating photos by Luca Tonegutti.

New Zealand Ice Figure Skating Championships {Sports Photography}

As you may know Im not only a photographer, but also adult skater and been fortunate to be asked to became an Official Photographer for New Zealand Ice Figure Skating Championships, Nationals competitions in Auckland, NZ {18-21 October 2022}. It was a pleasure to dive in sports photography, so similar to events/wedding photography when you need to keep focused at all times and watch for the right moment to happen, putting attention on lines, composition, body language, emotions - passion and grace that skaters express in their programs.

You need to be on point, pre-view the moment that just about ro happen. Knowledge of figure skating and all the skating elements, programs requirements and layouts definitely a bonus for ability to get things right in camera. It was a challenging task with many thousands of photos captured over 4 days, but also very rewarding.

So much beauty, grace and talent!

Enjoy this quick sneak peek! Final galleries will be ready in 3-4 weeks {not late to make your order at www.levienphotography.com/new-zealand-nationals

Let me know if you have any questions!