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Ten days in Spain, a portrait in France

The beginning of a wonderful photographic journey in France and Spain

Ten days in Spain – a portrait of Maria Via

Maria Via a photographic portrait in Barcelona

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.

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

WPPI wedding album award woohoo!

The Eastern Family have a new album

The Eastern have a new CD,…. buy it now!

Zoe and Nick were married in Christchurch

The weather was predicted to go bad …. REALLY BAD. I’m not criticising the judgment of weather forecasters but it created an unnecessary sense of foreboding for the day as ugly weather was on its way (supposedly). The ugly weather never showed …. Ballantynes made a few extra umbrella sales that day. I love the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What is a Dumbo Feather?

Dumbo Feather is the thing that you believe in that you allows to achieve the seemingly impossible

More Ida

Baby Ida is the star today.

The perfect photograph.

To take the perfect photograph you need the perfect camera. The perfect camera is the one that gets the result. Its not about the number of pixels. It is about the effect of the camera on the image creation. Sometimes the pixels matters but for me ‘more emotion’ beats ‘more pixels’ every time. The more [...]

Time travel

We have some friends who live in the future. Its true! All of their time pieces are set to 15-20 minutes fast. Their microwave and their car clocks!!! The quantum part of this gets complicated because they also exist in our world (15 minutes behind theirs.) They are seldom late (in our world) .

Photographic responsibility

As a photographer I have certain responsibilities to my clients that take precedence over my own photographic urges.

Images with music

I was working on something for a friend … their wedding images with some music. I put in a bit of Tom Waits and a beautiful rendition of Pokarekare ana. There is the power to move people in the right combination of music and images. Quentin Tarantino talks of this power. He talks about the [...]

Speaking engagements

I have several unconfirmed speaking opportunites coming up … I wondered what insights I might offer. I also wondered what people wanted to hear. I realised there are way too many experts offering the answer … well actually they would offer a reason for the answer and then sell you the answer in a box [...]

All postcards

Postcard series

Christchurch Wedding Photography, Jeremy and Jo got married at St Barnabas

Jeremy and Jo were married on Saturday. We were lucky enough to be a part of their great day, We were proud to be there.

Postcards 3 and 4

Postcards from a series of 6

Postcard 1

the first of a series of six postcards

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