Brence and I spent a month visiting my folks in Canada over the recent Christmas and New Year’s holidays. We took a ba-zillion photos which I have yet to sort through properly, but I wanted to post a quick pick. I took this of Brence riding the bus in Vancouver one cold rainy night. It [...]

My previous post was a selection of photos of my brother’s beautiful Cane Corso dog, Buddha. Here’s a selection of photos of his other dog, Bella (also a Cane Corso). My brother lives in Chilliwack, B.C. Canada, and is going to breed his two dogs – anyone in the greater Vancouver area who would like [...]

My brother Mike lives in Chilliwack B.C. Canada and has two utterly gorgeous dogs. I was visiting for the holidays and Mike requested some professional portraits of his dogs for his website – www.canadiancanecorso.com – where he intends to promote the breed and his upcoming litters of purebred puppies for sale. His dogs Buddha and [...]

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you’ll have seen quite a few photos of my partner Brence. Being the partner of a photographer means you wind up getting your photo taken A LOT, but this time it was by request! Brence’s brother was visiting and they asked me to take an informal [...]

I’ve been overseas in Canada for a month with my partner visiting my family over the Christmas/New Years holidays, and a couple of days ago we made the lonnnnnnnnng trip back to New Zealand (via an 8-hour layover in Sydney – yikes!). We had a new Canon 50mm 1.4 lens with us that so far [...]

This afternoon I did another photo sessions for some friends who have a gorgeous 11 month old wee boy. I’ve done several photo sessions with him since he was a baby, and it’s been so interesting to document him growing and changing in his first year. In today’s session, done at their home, I particularly [...]

Yesterday evening my partner and I went to a nearby park to fiddle around with some photography ideas in the long grass with the setting sun. I played around a bit with lens flare – sometimes it can add quite a cool effect. Here’s my favourite pic of the day, shot at 17mm on f4. [...]

A wee while ago I had the pleasure of photographing my friends’ young son. I’ve been photographing him every few months during his first year and it’s amazing to see how quickly children grow and change during this time – making it even more important to have a fantastic photographic record of their very early [...]

I spent last weekend on the West Coast of New Zealand, mainly in the tiny town of Punakaiki for a friend’s wedding (attending, not photographing). Even though it’s only about a 3 hour drive from Christchurch to the coast, my partner and I spent about 6 hours getting there as we kept stopping to take [...]

A short time ago I did some PR portraiture for award-winning New Zealand author Rachael King. Her new novel Magpie Hall is due out at the end of October and she wanted some updated headshots for the PR and media machine. We did a number of relaxed headshots and environmental portraits at her home, and [...]