All About Us

mychillybin.co.nz kicked off in February 2008 to give the creative world access to affordable, high quality images that celebrate all the great things about New Zealand life.

So, why have a website that’s chock full of Kiwi photos?

Simple really. There wasn’t another site around quite like it. Not one that offered that beaut combination of great New Zealand images, at good, honest down to earth prices.

When you deal with mychillybin.co.nz. there’s no hassle, no tedious phone calls negotiating rights and none of that brown squidgy stuff you find in cow paddocks.

And why did we choose the name mychillybin.co.nz?

Well, when you think about it, a New Zealand summer isn’t complete without a beach, a barbie and a chillybin full of goodies. So it follows that when you’re creating a website brimming with images of New Zealand life and landscapes, you’d call it mychillybin.co.nz.

Like the site, the mychillybin.co.nz team is 100% Kiwi.

Before any image goes on-line, it’s checked by living, breathing human beings – not some faceless automated whatever. That way, we keep the quality of the photos high.

No photos of beaming families from middle America here thanks very much. Just a ton of great Kiwi photos, taken by Kiwis and selected by Kiwis.

So check us out. We’re as Kiwi as a plate of lamingtons at your grandma’s house.

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(i) Editorial content - material that is of genuine public interest and free of advertising and advertorial content.

Except when the actual image is shown to be for Editorial Use Only, then it can also be used for the specified period in the sames way as the Enhanced Licence, as follows

(ii)   Items not for resale (e.g. ads, marketing materials, websites, social media posts, unpaid apps, posters, flyers, reports, ...)

(iii)   Items for resale (e.g. use of image on coasters, paid apps, screensavers, or printed map books, reports, magazine covers etc that are sold on websites or through shops ...)

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(ii) Items for resale (e.g. use of image on coasters, paid apps, screensavers, or printed map books, reports, magazine covers etc that are sold on websites or through shops ...)

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(i) Editorial content of general public interest in blogs, social media, newspapers, magazines, newsletters

(ii)  Items not for resale, up to 100,000 copies

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