Winter Sports Team Photos 2025
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.
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
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!
Australian Figure Skating Championships 2024
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.
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.
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.
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.
Twilight Little Athletics
Thanks to Essendon Little Athletics for having us along to 2 meets already this summer. Melbourne Sports Photography founder, Craig Dingle, has photographed one Saturday morning event, and more recently, one Friday night twilight event.
Blessed with good weather, Craig enjoyed watching the young athletes giving their all as the sun set.
Being able to create silhouette images against the setting sun is a lot of fun, so in addition to standard track and field images Craig was able to create some unique images highlighting the athletes form.
We hope the athletes and families enjoy the images, and hope to see you again this season.
Shooting the Victorian Figure Skating Championships
The Melbourne Sports Photography team again photographed the Victorian Figure Skating Championships in 2024. Craig and Phil spent 2 days at O'Brien Icehouse along with the best skaters in Victoria and a good number of competitors from interstate. After the event, Zoe and Kia did the bulk of the work selecting and editing key images. Those images are now live on the Melbourne Sports Photography website. (They are in a password protected gallery. The link and password have been sent to competitors by Ice Skating Victoria.)
The standard of competition was high, making it a great event to watch and to photograph.
If you are wanting to check out the images, please do so promptly, as the galleries will close on 18 November 2024.
If you are interested in figure skating, the Victorian State Champs are held in October each year, leading up to the national champs at the end of November and the beginning to December.
In 2024 the national champs are in Melbourne at O'Brien Icehouse from 30 November to 6 December. The Melbourne Sports Photography team will be there to photograph the event. If you are going to be there, please come and say hi!
Thank you to the Victorian Figure Skating community for making the Melbourne Sports Photography team welcome. Congratulations on an excellent event, and for those going to the national champs, we look forward to seeing you there!
Fast Turnaround for East Coast Challenge Cup
Melbourne Sports Photography expanded the large number of sports it works with when we supplied team photos for the Ten Pin Bowling competition - the East Coast Challenge Cup in September.
The East Coast Challenge Cup includes bowlers from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, with each state taking turns in hosting the event. This year it was hosted by Victoria and held at Wyncity Keon Park Bowling in Thomastown.
Melbourne Sports Photography's team, Craig, Phil and Phina spent 4 hours on the Monday shooting both team shots, individual player portraits, and family / group shots for the New South Wales and Victorian teams. (We understand Queensland might have done their own before coming to the event. Hopefully we might see you again in 3 years time - the next time Victoria hosts the East Coast Challenge Cup!).
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were very busy days - with post production led by Melbourne Sports Photography's editing star, Sally. A super quick turnaround from print partner had us packing print orders by Thursday night. (This was just as well, as in the planning of this job Craig had forgotten Friday was a public holiday in Melbourne!)
By Friday late afternoon we were delivering prints to Renee at the event. And while Phil and Craig were there they saw one Victorian bowler record a perfect game! All strikes! Amazing.
Thank you to Renee for trusting us with this project. We hope you had an enjoyable week.
For any bowlers who missed out on ordering team photos - drop us an email, we can still organise prints for you.
We hope to see you again next time Victoria hosts the East Coast Challenge Cup!