News from the Studio, New Locations and Project Updates
Street Photography with Snapshot Cameras and Bokeh-Monster
In August Amy and I went along to an afternoon Street Photography Workshop and Fujifilm X-Series Hands On hosted by Snapshot Cameras and Sven Shroeter. Sven is known as Bokeh-Monster and has made quite a name for himself as a self-taught photographer specialising in...
PawTraits Project: Ceres & Dwayne
It’s been far too long since I blogged a Pet Photography Session and when I realised that I still had Ceres and Dwayne's to do - well that gave me a real shock! I had met Dwayne’s sister Emma at the Tamahere Markets one weekend and it was her nomination that really...
Art Deco City Mini Sessions
The first annual Napier Photo Festival started this weekend in the Hawkes Bay. Shayne Jeffares, from the Kitchen Table Cafe and the Photographers Gallery, has put together a collection of speakers, exhbitions, competitions and events. I have photographs on display...
Get It Together | 100 Days Until 2015
On the 23rd, Melissa from the Best Nest published Losing Track | 100 Days Until 2015. On the 22nd of September, there were only 100 days left in the year?! WHAT?! (By the time I finish and publish this post there will probably be about 90) I can see the days getting...
Reality – but it’s okay because it’s Friday.
Friday - the second best day of the week.
Weekend: A Bebe Shower
This weekend was a weekend of people - my darling Mel was staying with us so we were eating and drinking and laughing and catching up, I was thinking cameras for Yvonne and on Sunday, I got to see the beautiful Greer at her baby shower. She had arranged a trip up...
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A Spring [Portrait] Session for Someone
SPRING IS HERE!!! Winter is out of here and the flowers are pushing through. All the trees down my driveway have the most beautiful buds on them and all of this makes me happy. Today, the 1st of September, is also Random Act of Kindness day here in New Zealand and I...
Weekend: Brunch at Joe’s
Yvonne and I call Joe's Garage (Bryce Street, Hamilton) our 'office'. We go there and talk things. We met there yesterday morning to have a conversation about cameras, for me to check out the throw pillow that Yvonne ordered of Edel and for us to have eggs. Eggs are...
Currently.
Oh what a weekend! Some warmth coming out of that bright orb in the sky, plants going into my pots on the back deck and some compost getting munched in to the vegetable boxes to get them all ready for our next plantings. There are buds on the trees and the birds are...
Photo Friday – Architecture
This weeks Photo Friday: "Architecture" I love the lines of this building and the way the light hits the materials. We had just finished a Street Photography Workshop and were walking back from town along the riverfront and back up to the main street. Blue skies,...
Photo Friday – From Nature
This weeks Photo Friday: "From Nature" This Blue Dragon Nudibranch was in the perfect position and I spent a lot of time with it on this dive in the Bligh Waters off Rakiraki in Fiji. Called the Blue Dragon in our part of the world (because of its resemblance to a...
PawTraits Project: Floyd – Super Hero Doberman
One of the best things about Pet Photography Sessions is not the photographs - well not JUST the photographs - but it is the stories. Floyd and his family - Fi, Phil and the gorgeous Plum - were nominated for their session by their wonderful friend Jess and in...
What’s In My Camera Bag?
I love having a squizz in other photographers camera bags. Not just at their beautiful glass but all the weird and wonderful things that end up in there as well. So I thought I would do a little post .. What's in My Camera Bag? The contents of my bag changes a little...
Tit for Tat You Know.
Trading, bartering and negotiating contra deals have been around for centuries. I remember trading at primary school - I'm not even sure where I learned it from - but it always started with something along the lines of "If you give me this, I'll give you ....." . Last...
Light and Snug: Designing Not By Tara
The last six months have absolutely flown by - I don't even know where the time has gone - and I've neglected the blog part of my blog. I know I have raved on about pet photography and photography sessions and the like, but the photos I have taken for my Sunday in the...
PawTraits Project: Ian, Annalie & Maddy
Maddy - and her parents Annalie and Ian - were nominated for my Autumn Rewards Paw-Trait sessions by no less than three different people. Thanks to the project reaching its crowdfunding target, I immediately booked a flight to Wellington and went to meet this...
My version of Crafts for the Tamahere Country Market
Every month, on the third Saturday morning, the Tamahere Country Market fills the front lawn and grass around St Stephens Church in Tamahere just south of Hamllton. The market runs from 8:30 until 13:00 and for the last couple of months, I have been perching on the...
Currently.
Another Currently blog post - also written on a Friday! I actually have a day off today, well a day off from my number one job, so I have lazed the morning away reading. It's been so long since I picked up my Kindle that I was actually surprised it had any charge in...