The Melbourne Sports Photography team photographed a unique event this month - Hera Bjork singing while some of Victoria's leading ice skaters performed around her! This fascinating event was a fund raising initiative hosted by Ice Skating Victoria and held at O'brien Icehouse in Docklands.

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If you are a Eurovision Song Contest fan, you may know that Hera Bjork represented Iceland in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. The Melbourne Sports Photography team on the night, Craig and Phil, found out she had a big voice as she performed some well known songs. She is currently conducting a tour of Australia with a number of performances around the country.

Making this event unique, she was performing on the ice with skaters in action around her. 

MelbourneSportsPhotography-8507 The skating had a "showtime" feel to it with colourful costumes and lighting adding to the atmosphere. The skaters seemed to really enjoy the event, free from the pressures of competing and able to enjoy the skating, the music, and the people.

MelbourneSportsPhotography-8884 The event had a fast moving feel to it, with never a dull moment, and always filled with music or skating or both.

MelbourneSportsPhotography-9221 Congratulations to the organiser, Chris, Ice Skating Victoria, all the skaters, O'brien Icehouse, and Hera Bjork for putting on a very entertaining evening and an excellent fund raising event.

Thanks for having the Melbourne Sports Photography team along to such a unique event!
 

The Melbourne Sports Photography team have a busy year ahead with many clubs already booking their team photos and player portraits for 2025. Thanks to those clubs who have been very organised and have booked early. This allows us to plan our resourcing for the shoot, and for the editing, printing and delivery afterwards. 

If you have not booked already, please make contact as soon as possible, as we are already heavily booked for 2025.

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When you make contact it will be helpful to know:

• The number of teams to photograph
• The number of players and officials to photograph
• Whether you have a suitable indoor space for the shoot - for example, a clubrooms space
• Preferred dates or days for the shoot

CD24Men Once booked, we will visit your premises to discuss and plan the logistics for the shoot.

Melbourne Sports Photography phone number and email address are available here on the website. Please see the "Contact" page.

Thank you. Here's to a great 2025!

The Melbourne Sports Photography team thoroughly enjoyed photographing the Australian Figure Skating Championships for 2024. Held at O'Brien Icehouse in Melbourne from 30 November to 6 December, Phil and Craig spent the week photographing Australia's best figure skaters.

MelbourneSportsPhotography-2944 It was terrific to start with 2 full days of synchro, and to feel the energy brought by having the stands full of spectators! What a buzz. Congratulations to all those who brought so much energy to the synchro competition.

This was followed by 5 days of pairs and individual skating, showcasing a great level of athletic ability and skating skill.

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In the week since the competition we have reviewed and edited just over 70,000 images. The galleries are now live here on the Melbourne Sports Photography website.

For those who had completed the expression of interest form, we have edited and uploaded your images, and have emailed the password to you. Thanks so much for the positive feedback we have received so far. 

If you hadn't completed the expression of interest but would still like us to edit your images, please make contact via email. We did photograph every routine, and can add these to the website.

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The galleries will close on 24 December 2024, so if you are wanting to view and purchase images, please do so before then. Thank you.

Finally a thanks and a congratulations. Thank you to Zoe who led the work on editing a large number of images in a short time. Terrific work (and ably supported by Kat and Craig.) Congratulations to Ice Skating Australia, Ice Skating Victoria, and all the skaters on a great event. We hope you enjoy the images.