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Archive for February, 2009

Lyttel people- a photographic exhibition

Jo has her exhibition of Lyttel People running at the moment. You have to come and see it. The hours for it are a bit inconvenient as we have weddings happening all over the place. We will probably run it again in May as an exhibition … once the Chaos has died down a little [...]

Phil and Ted vs Mountain Buggy … the trouble with evangelists

from prams to evangelism

Fishing stories

How is it that when you talk to other photographers theirs is always bigger? I was talking with four different colleagues about spending 18 hours photographing for one wedding and each of them said ‘yeah, I had one bigger than that.’ They could have said ‘thats a long time’ or ‘you must be buggered’ … [...]

Queenstown Wedding Photography

On Saturday I photographed a fabulous wedding with all the trimmings at Peregrine … It was an elegant and beautiful party set under ‘the sail’ at Peregrine Winery. Full credit to Jacqui from ‘Touch of Spice’ for creating an outstanding event. …. in spite of the rain. We spent a huge amount of time with this [...]

Wedding Photography

Making the connection with our wedding (and portrait) clients is essential to our photography.

I had too much to drink over a long lunch

Sunday!

Valentine’s Day

No wedding for me today. Do I look upset? Not that you can tell, but no I don’t. Those superhuman skills that allow us to create photographic wonders every weekend appreciate the moments to breathe. Every wedding deserves our best, in the midst of our busy-ness it is wonderful to be able to take a [...]

What is art?

And what is art indeed

The Velveteen Rabbit and the Skin Horse on ‘being real’

Being real cannot be over-rated.

The Eastern … a family

The Eastern are about to release a new album.
I got to take some photographs of the Eastern family

Commenting on Blog Posts … a writers perspective.

Leaving comments on my Blogs … would help me be a better blogger.

Akaroa Wedding Photography – James and Lettie

Lettie and James Got married in Akaroa on the 7th of February 2009. Johannes van Kan was their wedding Photographer!

The importance of cake

On Thursday … about time for a tea break, our neighbour came over with a cake for the staff. It was just out of the oven but almost cool enough to eat. Its easy to forget that, wherever you are (almost),  you live in a community and how great it would be if  you made [...]

Wedding Photography in Okains Bay

Vanita and Nick got married in Okains Bay

Being noticed

Friday was a dark day. Too much to do, too much going on, too many people needing things, and a broken car. Not just a broken car, but the only VW Golf in New Zealand with this one broken bit that only could be replaced out of Germany! It is never good to be on [...]

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