Doggy Style.

Kids Being Kids.

Kids being kids; a little diptych of each one.

Sweet Sixteen.

Sweet at sixteen; Nicole has a wee portrait session. We tried to vary the look and feel of each portrait to document this special period in Nicole's life. All lit with portable studio lights and backdrops.

Here is a little selection of 'head and shoulder' portraits, all shot with studio lighting and backgrounds. With such a simple composition it is easy to create repetitive portraits! The use of varied lighting, styling and emotion creates quite the opposite. They all have one thing in common; they are beautiful girls.

'Festival of Light'

Every Year in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, New Zealand, there is a festival of light. It starts in December and finishes in January, It was one of my highlights from a trip to New Zealand recently. As you walk through the park there is a creative use of light within and around the plants, trees, on the lake and projected onto water. I didn't have a tripod with me to take clean, documentive shots. Instead I had fun playing with a longer exposure and movement. Each image has come straight from the camera 'as is'


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Nudge

Woosh

Haste

Mutlti Star

Side Sway

Ghost

Blue Fern

Green

Bounce

Falling

Knots