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The video of the WPPI album

This was a presentation I did with my talks in the UK last year.
I am curious about any interest in a talk in May this year on the album design process.
I am looking at two or three locations in the UK … Let me know if you are interested.

Album images …Wedding album award WPPI 2010

here are some pics from the album … I will put a more complete set on our website with a link shortly …
Thanks to everyone who sent there good wishes we feel very humbled.
Thanks for looking
All the best
Johannes

We won … again … but this time it is really big … its WPPI

WPPI wedding album award woohoo!

Suddenly it was March

The weddings of Jacqui and Henry, Sheryl and Mike, Jacqui and James, Jenna and Adam, Gabriel and Janet, Katie and Simon, Jeremy and Jane and Kate and Greg … all over the place!

Carly and Pete were married in the country … and it rained

This summer has seen the best and worst of weather in Canterbury.
One day it is sunny then the rest it rains … well it seems like that
There is a wonderful myth … we call it an optimistic truth … that when it rains on your wedding day you will have a marriage filled with good [...]

A quick look at a recent wedding

Time suddenly disappeared as I spent last week photographing four weddings, the buskers festival, and having a birthday.
I have seen enough acrobats and jugglers to see me through the year. Weddings I can never get enough of, And birthdays … even though I was spoiled, one a year is good enough for me.

I will post [...]

A ballet wedding in Christchurch.

I love photographing ballet dancers … especially at weddings.
We had the service at Saint John of God’s in Christchurch. followed by photographs and reception at the Isaac Theatre Royal
Martin and Jasmine looked fantastic.
With every couple we always want to exceed their expectations. To do this we need to get an idea of what their expectations [...]

A Kaikoura Wedding

Actually this was a wedding in two parts.
A Laotion service in Christchurch
Part of the ceremony required the bride and groom to ask their families for forgiveness  for any wrong they may have done in their past. This allows them to make a fresh start in their new lives together. Very cool.
And a few days later [...]

The master on story telling

Story telling is a personal passion … it gives purpose to my photography

Welcome to the Zoo

Albums and Christmas presents

Warning – contains Christmas spoiler

Suddenly …like everybody else I am aware that Christmas is upon me … sure we put up a tree a few weeks ago and we decorated Ida in a Santa suit … but today … two days  before the big fella drops our presents off I am having an epiphany …
Santa isn’t going to drop [...]

A wedding in Auckland

I was on good behaviour this weekend photographing the wedding of Kayla and Nigel Hicks. Nigel works with Queensberry. We both blog for the Queensberry website.
Here are a few images from what started out looking like an ugly rainy day.
Cheers
Johannes

Find yourself before you try to become somebody else.

Sometimes we forget who we are. Zack Arias put this together  … its just too true.
Sometimes the pursuit of an identity gets in the way of being yourself …

Cheers
Johannes

Christmas at Moda

Christmas came early for us this year …. 6 months on …. Ida Valentina makes our lives richer and happier.
It has been a challenging year for all of us.  At Moda we were very lucky to have Susie working behind the scenes to keep the wheels turning whenever we were distracted by our new project [...]

The calm before the storm … its eerie

Weddings in storms and weddings in Tekapo at the Church of The Good Shepherd

Wedding season has begun

Here are some images from three weddings in October

and then

and finally

November is pretty quiet for us but we are getting more inquiries for portraits before Christmas. If you need some portraits or reprint for gifts call us or email us.
All the best
Johannes

Making stone soup

At the age of 5 or 6 stone soup was possible with culinary flare and oodles of imagination. Eventually the soup from stones becomes tasteless stones boiled in water. As soon as you take away the imagination, and the faith, it all falls apart.
As a photographer I would hope that I was always looking for [...]

The Leica way

I wish I had a Leica M9

The sign

We went away to Byron Bay (Australia) for a break (our first family holiday)  before the wedding Season got out of control.
We stayed at a wonderful house on the beach in a place called Suffolk Park.
Our accommodation had private access to the beach.
On the 5th day there I went to the beach via the public [...]

I slept with Picasso

Well several …. and a Miro.
While in the UK I spent one night in the home of a couple I had photographed two years earlier.
They were both paper conservators. One of them was restoring a series of Picasso pieces and a Miro. His workroom was also the spare bedroom.  You get that in places where [...]

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