Sharon Blance Christchurch Photographer

Archive for January, 2011

Finding Vivian Maier – the last century’s great undiscovered street photographer

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Photograph by Vivian Maier. Reposted with permission. A few days ago I become aware of the unfolding story of Vivian Maier – and I’m totally blown away. In case you haven’t heard it yet, the story goes like this: Vivian was born in New York in 1926 to a French mother, and ended up working [...]

Vietnam travel photography – Hanoi

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Finally… after a marathon editing session I’m very pleased to post up the first of my Vietnam photos. Editing down around 3,000 images to something digestible is a pretty big task. Next time I go on a 3-week photographic holiday I’m going to spend a bit of time every evening on the trip sorting out [...]

Christchurch City Council building architectural photo

Monday, January 17th, 2011

I was recently on a job where I needed to create a photograph of the shiny new Christchurch City Council offices in central Christchurch, New Zealand where I live. The new civic headquarters is an extensive refurbishment of an existing building, with a rather grand and architecturally interesting main entrance on the north side. I [...]

Corporate location portraits – no fuss, no muss…

Monday, January 10th, 2011

The other day I did a PR job for a story about a tech project undertaken by our local city council in conjunction with two other tech companies. Part of the job required individual portraits of three key team members. We were on location at the new Christchurch City Council building, which is fantastic because [...]