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.

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!

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:

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!

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!