I had a an email enquiry recently from a lovely woman named Hannah. She wanted to know if I would be able to do outdoor lifestyle portrait photography of her family – which included herself, her husband Andrew, their wee baby girl Aubrey … plus two dogs and a donkey! I thought it sounded like [...]

I was recently visiting my hometown of Chilliwack, British Columbia and was asked by my good friend Kristen to do some casual outdoor portraits of her with husband Chad and their two gorgeous dogs, Sammy and Maggie. The autumn colours were in full swing and made a fabulous setting for portraits. We did doggie pictures first, [...]

I really enjoy doing actor headshot sessions. Actors are generally a fun bunch of folks to work with, who often bring a willing and vibrant energy to portrait sesssions. Actor’s headshots are an important marketing tool, and play a pivitol role in whether their resume even gets looked at. The image  has to jump off [...]

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 [...]

This week I got a call from Aiotec Limited, an electronic design and development company that needed some PR shots for an imminent press release. The usual group-shot-of-managers and group-shot-of-staff were on the list, plus some portraits of the Managing Director. Shayne is one of the nicest clients I’ve met. He’s completely open, friendly and [...]

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 [...]

A few weeks ago I got a call from the marketing department the Accor Hotels group. They were having a large conference for their New Zealand staff and wanted to know if I could set up on site and spend an hour doing headshots of the management staff. Accor Hotels is the world’s largest hotel [...]

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 [...]

My partner Brence Coghill is also a photographer, which means a couple of things: 1. We have a lot of photos, usually with one or the other of us in them, but 2. We don’t have many nice pictures with BOTH of us in them, because one of us is usually behind the camera. To [...]