In October 2022, I joined up with Fujifilm New Zealand to offer a photography workshop in Papamoa, New Zealand. In this blog post, I’ll give you the TLDR from the event, outline the ideation and production processes and showcase some of my favourite stills from the event.

HUGE thank you to everyone who rocked up for the Fujifilm X-Series NZ touch and try photography event with me and Bingham in Mount Maunganui. It was such a rad time! In this post I’ll share the TLDR of what went down, with a few top tips. Enjoy!

My name is Lou (@louloubphoto). I live in a beach town in New Zealand called Mount Maunganui, named after the extinct volcano just down the road. I’m originally from England but New Zealand is where I call home now. I work full time for a tech company and spend as much of my spare time as possible documenting the ocean and nature locally and across the region here in the North Island of New Zealand.

It took me 30 years to journey to New Zealand.

At 18,695km away, and the antipodal point to my home country England, United Kingdom, some might say it’s no surprise I hadn’t set foot on NZ soil yet.

In this journal post, I’ll share with you a little bit about where my passion for nature and photography began and how and why I started LouLouB Photo many years later...