Imaging my surprise when my friend & business colleague Kirk O’Connor from Online Assist 4U, who produced this site for me and who I’d recommended to Lynn; advised me that Lynn’s site was now up & running.

I love the site, it’s very crisp, clean & sophisticated, it shows Lynn’s wonderful work beautifully and is also a great portfolio of my work, since all of the images on Lynn’s site are mine.

If you are a potential client looking to see what I can do in a display home situation, interiors for magazines or similar, please do go & have a look at Lynn’s site, or if perhaps you are considering restyling your home, or even just a room or two, please give Lynn a call, you won’t be disappointed & she will save you money.

http://coloursolutionsbylynn.com.au/  

I was approached a few months ago by a representative of Down Syndrome WA to see if I’d be interested in participating in the production of their 2011 Calendar.  Of course I said “Yes”, what a great opportunity to give something back to the community.

Shooting for the project commenced in mid April, and coordinator Beth Stein & I worked for 5 days with a wonderful group of 16 children & their Mum’s. The theme for the project was True Colours which I interpreted as bringing out  the child’s personality & not having them fit into a preconceived scenes or locations, we allowed the children to be themselves & I just captured the moment.

Without exception the children were wonderful, enthusiastic to work with & I came away from the experience greatly enriched. To watch a small boy’s face come to life when offered a book, and another walk into the room & command attention just by his presence, this child was a star in every sense of the word.

I would personally like to thank the children & their parents for trusting me, I hope that you like the results when you get to see them. They are under wrapps until the calendar’s launch, so please be patient, it won’t be long. I’d also of course like to thank Down Syndrome WA for allowing me the project.

My very good friend Kristy from Ladybird Design takes the project from here, designing the calendar around the True Colours theme & my images, from the proofs she has shared with me, she’s doing a spectacular job. I can’t wait to see the resulting calendar on the market, hopefully sometime in October.

Please look out for it & buy lots of copies, it’s going to make a great gift & the dollars are going to a very worthwhile cause.

I was recently asked by Ron Jenkins, Director of JAM Designs to do a series of shoots for his client Carpets ONLINE. The shoots were of a new carpet product, Powerbond, which had been laid in several of WA’s top schools.

My first thought was “how do I make Carpet look exciting, or even interesting”, I needn’t have worried. I was accompanied on all of the shoots by Carpets ONLINE Company Business Development Manager, Lynn Marley who was a great help throughout. Our first Challenge was John xxiii rd where the product had been laid in several classrooms, and it looked great, very hard wearing & easy to clean.  Lynn stepped in as a model & quickly took up the post of teacher, adding human interest to the background of the shots.

Our second shoot was at Newman College, where the product had been laid in the high traffic student locker area. The Carpet layers had done a brilliant job in using a complex pattern of swirls,  joining several colors of the product together. I was inspired to use a slow exposure & so with the help of a couple of children & teachers walking through some of the shots; created a blur of movement to illustrate the “high traffic” concept. With the bright blue lockers, the swirl pattern & wonderful texture of the product we managed to create some very interesting shots.

St Benedict’s in Applecross was our next port of call, where the School’s library had recently been renovated and again the carpet layers had done a fantastically innovative job; inserting numbered & lettered carpet squares randomly throughout the room, making it a fun place for the children to study.

Bannister Creek Primary was our final challenge. Here the product had been used in an open air assembly/undercover area, where on our arrival a group of children were playing Volleyball on a court laid out into the design of the carpet. Mindful of the laws of photographing children we were given permission to shoot the action and I was careful to time the shots so that few of the participants could be identified & during post production  skillfully edited out any faces. Again we got some great action shots, punctuated by movement & illustrating the product’s versatility & durability.

I recently had the pleasure of photographing a business colleagues wedding.

Kimberly & her new husband Brian had a wonderfully intimate wedding in a small cove at Trigg beach in November 09. Despite their allure, beach weddings can be difficult, not only are you at the mercy of the weather, but also the tides. When I arrived at the beach the tide was definitely coming in, giving me cause for concern. Fortunately the tide turned & started out at the beginning of the ceremony, as I had visions of a rapidly diminishing beach, lots of wet people & having to climb out of the fairly small area. 

Transport was provided for the couple by way of a Bentley Sports car, owned by Best Man Vince, so I couldn’t resist some twilight shots of the happy couple with their namesake car.

Both Kimberly & Brian are US expat’s, and both very laid back people, so with visiting family & friends had a real New York family wedding, followed by a swinging party at their nearby Scarborough home. Music was provided by a live jazz/blues group….and as the saying goes…a great time was had by all.