My previous post was about a shoot I did recently to create promotional studio portraits of a couple of very talented swing dancers. My assistant, collaborator and general partner-in-crime Brence Coghill came to assist with the shoot and ended up filming a lot of behind-the-scenes footage (on a Canon IXUS point-and-shoot, for those of you [...]

Portraiture is my favourite type of photography, but my absolute favourite-est types of portraits are promotional shots for performers – dancers, acrobats, circus folk – general ‘show biz’ kind of stuff. I had the great fortune to do a hugely fun dance shoot recently with Jess – she works as an event organiser but her [...]

On Friday night my phone rang. My friend multi-talented friend Alister (physiotherapist by day, sound engineer by night) wanted to know if I could come to Al’s Bar that night to photograph a concert by a New Zealand Led Zeppelin tribute band, aptly named “NZeppelin“.  Now, I don’t think of myself as a Zeppelin fan [...]