Environmental Portraits: Two brothers photographed on the beach
As a prize for a competition run by the Dowse Art Gallery, I donated family portrait photography as the prize. It was an honor to be asked – I also love working with the Dowse and am keen to help them whenever I can. We decided on the beach as the scene and then arranged [...]
Help Portrait Volunteers
On December 4th, 2010 I took part in Help Portrait, a global network of professional and amateur photographers giving back to their communities. After an earlier get together and briefing, I was assigned to turn up at the Child Cancer Foundation. There were already a number of photographers busy shooting there, so with Zelda MacKenzie, [...]
Shake the Fat dancers have a winning combination
On Monday 19 October, 2010 I was commissioned by the Porirua City Council to photograph an Aerobics Dance troupe named Shake the Fat. The image is to be used for a council newsletter describing the troupes latest success in a national competition. As expected, the troupe turned out to be lots of fun to work [...]
New website updates- Bridal Shoot Posted
Tonight in preparation of the upcoming Wellington Wedding Show that I am exhibiting at, I have done some website updates. Most importantly, I have featured a new gallery of images from Edita’s Bridal Shoot in San Jose, California. As well as the new gallery, there are updates to the random image generator at the home [...]
Formal studio portraits with a touch of cool
I have photographed this family a number of time for different reasons- stock photo shoots for iStockphoto.com and for the Health Trust. This time was family portrait session with an in house portable studio setup. The first shot was the formal portrait with black background. The real challenge was to light it with some stronger [...]
Portrait of young cancer survivor
I have started a portrait project of people who have or are dealing with cancer. Today I photographed a young girl who recently underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor. She is a healthy, active child like any I usually photograph. I chose to show this image because it is reflective while still showing her [...]
Portrait of a Science Teacher
I have been planning to make a portrait of this new science teacher for a few months now- Its the old story of never enough time and its hard to set up something that works in the schedule. We had discussed doing an environmental portrait out on the ocean with sea kayaks, a hobby of [...]
Recent Family Portrait shoot
This was a recent family portrait shoot that we did at The Japanese Friendship Garden in San Jose. The trick with any of these popular spots is to arrive early (and get a permit), we managed to get most of the shots with a covering of morning fog that burnt off by the end of [...]