South Coast 4x4 Work (31 photos)

I recently spent a few days working with a TV crew to produce stills while they filmed some episodes of a 4x4 TV show called 4wd TV. It is a fairly well viewed show here in Australia and has a few million fans online watching their content.

We did a public meet and greet on the Friday at the well known Mundaring powerline track, it has some deep ruts, bog holes, hill climbs, rock gardens and other challenging obstacles. Overall it was a great afternoon with around 70 vehicles turning up.

I was hired to document behind the scenes of producing the TV show as well as to produce some "hero" images for the sponsors. It was a huge amount of fun, a stupid amount of work as I walked up and down super soft sand dunes that were more than 100 meters tall.

After the meet up on Friday the TV crew, sponsors and myself drove to a small town on the South Coast of Western Australia called Denmark (yes, we have a town called Denmark). We stayed there for a few days while exploring the 4x4 tracks and beach drives. We covered some of my favourites, Mutton Bird Beach and Dingo Beach. They are both stunningly beautiful.

We then moved on to a beach, Bornholm Beach, that has the reputation of having Australia's most difficult beach exit, it involves leaving a fairly soft beach and climbing more than 150 meters of steep soft sand. Many vehicles struggle to get up such a steep and continuous slope. The farmer who owns the farm at the top of the climb has been known to charge $1500 to retrieve stuck vehicles, he makes a decent bit of money over summer when the sand is far more soft and loose!

Our last little adventure was another track with many bog holes and river crossings, it was quite challenging as well. One vehicle needed to be recovered and helped out of the mud, but otherwise all the vehicles were very capable and made their way through everything just fine!

I'm quite happy with this sequence of images of the BYD Shark making its way though one of the mud holes. All in all I captured about 60 images of the BYD hitting and exiting this mud hole, it was difficult to reduce it down to just these ones.

Overall it was an awesome trip and I really enjoyed working with this new client, it looks like I'll be working on more projects like this with the production crew and the TV show's sponsors.

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