Quiet and unassuming is Glenn Snyders, fit young ambitious and near the top of his game. He will be among the few elite athletes carrying the hopes of New Zealand later this year as he puts his best forward in London for the Olympic games in search of a podium finish for 100 metres breast stroke.
At the studio, Glenn wasn't fazed in the slightest as a team of make up artists headed up by the very talented Sam Morrison got to work preparing him for our cover shoot. I had already given him an idea for what we were aiming for earlier. So when it came down time to start shooting Glenn was very relaxed and keen to make some great images.
I wanted to shoot a composite featuring his home training turf where he spends countless hours following the black line with his squad at MISH.
The next day I followed Glenn and the squad into MISH to cover a training session in the pool, which offered up a lot of great opportunities some semi set up and mostly action. It was this day I shot the background plate for the cover also. At the time a lot of re construction was going on around the pool facility so I had to tweak my original angle, in the end this didn't effect to much the overall result I was after.
Day 3 and by this stage we were in a constant state of banter, but that would have to wait as i wanted to shoot Glenn running thru one of his High Performance gym sessions at Millenium Institute of Sport. Again another amazing opportunity to create some amazing images of an athlete of this level.
The issue has just come out #113 and is on the shelves now till March. Its a great story and if your interested in high performance olympic athletes I hope you can get a chance to have a read, and enjoy the images.
Thanks to Ian Hepenstal, Spoon Studio, Millenium Institute of Sport, Sam Cairns Morrison, Andrew Bias and Nick Burridge.
