Last week the city I live in was utterly devastated by a cataclysmic earthquake – one with a ground acceleration over 2G (twice the force of gravity), making it among the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in the world. It’s not often you get to start a blog post with a sentence like that. I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So it’s been a wee while now since my 3-week adventure in Vietnam and I’ve yet to finish editing all the photos. Between myself and my partner Brence Coghill we took over 6000 pictures – which is a fair number. Since we’ve been back work has been busy busy busy and I’m dying for some [...]

I recently got back from spending 3 weeks in northern Vietnam (or Việt Nam, as they say over there) and boy oh boy do I have a lot of photos to edit. Over 2000 in fact. Many water buffalo, many rice paddies. It’s going to take a few weeks for me to sort through my [...]

It’s now been 4 and a half days since the massive magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit my home city of Christchurch, New Zealand. My previous blog post had some photos taken the day of the quake. Today I went out and took a few more pictures in my local vicinity. It feels a little weird to [...]

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this rather unsettling news bulletin… I live in Christchurch, New Zealand and yesterday morning I was jolted awake at 4:35 am by the biggest earthquake to hit this area in the last 80 years. The quake measured a sizeable 7.1 in magnitude – that’s comparable to [...]

My friend Emma Robertson is a fabulous hair and makeup artist who also does a bit of modelling, and I’d been meaning to tee up a photoshoot with her for ages. I finally managed to get organised to tee something up, and I did a shoot with her a couple days ago. I asked Emma [...]