Well now I have proved in the title I can rhyme… let’s get posting!

Back in the day, I used to do the odd triathlon. I was a bit of a fair-weather racer and hated the wetsuit swim. Nowadays, I take the easy road and sit on the end of a camera – seems like a good way to pretend I’m keeping fit! I trained fairly hard in my time, but not half the workload of Matty White – who has single handedly blown the Adelaide competition apart this year. He has a list of results as long as my arm, and has decided to step things up a notch this year and race Pro Category in the infamous Hawaiian Ironman. He has also formed a great relationship with Dan @ DTR Sports Management, and has a huge list of sponsors that can be seen on his site.

I had the opportunity of shooting with Matty last time I was in Adelaide, which I was quite excited about. Getting time out of athletes is a lot like pulling teeth, so getting Matty for a full day was brilliant. I had some ideas I wanted to reproduce, but I did put a strain on the friendship during this process – pulling Matt and Dan out of bed @ 4.30am was an easy way of doing this… Poor Matty had to don the speedos at 6am on the beach, and I can’t really describe the morning as balmy:

I also wanted to shoot the other aspects of triathlon, being the bike and run – so we setup a studio, and with the track-stand capabilities of Matt, and the strong hand of Dan, we were able to hold him upright long enough to shoot this (pretty cool bike setup btw):

Being sponsored by Saucony, Matt was more than happy to pose in the great new running getup. If I ever decided to run again, I think I’d want a full kit like this!

Anyway, after this shoot I came back to good ol’ Melbourneo and finished the rest of Matty’s site @ www.mattywhite.com.au, and I think it looks pretty good… if I don’t say so myself!

For now, I’m out!

DP.