This week I am blessed to have Alister, a Gin Gin year 10 student, working with me in my studio for work experience. Megan and I worked a big shoot yesterday and we threw Alister in the deep end. It was a sink or swim thing. He impressed the heck out of Megan and I. Things that stood out were his knowledge of cameras, light, details, and his amazing ability to be extremely professional. The clients: a law firm with a busy shoot run sheet. Not once did Alister slow down. I didn’t even see him eat lunch!

Small businesses look for people to come into their business to add something. It is so rare to find someone that just fits. It is even harder to find someone that gets what you are doing. I am blessed to have three such people: my husband who is my second for weddings and my first for life, my makeup genius Megan Topham who is beyond amazing, and now Alister (al-is-a-star) whose parents must be so proud of the young man they have raised. Thanks team. Your rock!

And back to teacher or student, yesterday I was both.

Inspired by the late 50′s – early 60′s, my lovely client put her trust in Megan and I to create something fabulous and fun. She looked gorgeous – multiple clothing changes, one fabulous new location, and looking very “Mad Men” inspired, another fantastic shooting day.  I Love My Job and my fabulous beautiful sexy clients!!! [...]

My favorite saying is by Gulliume Apolinaire from 1880 and it is “Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.” This month is start of the busiest wedding season I have ever had for my little studio. When [...]

Today my fab Megan and I did a trash the dress for fabulous Rian and Kelly. there are so many gorgeous images from the day but I have only have had time to work on a couple. So much work to do with other images. I love my clients. How many people get paid to [...]

the year…1925….ish – the great depression…ish…and Nadia plays for nickels and dimes

I love families. I love the interaction between them when they think no one is looking.

It is funny how you can start off a day with one set of expectations and then magic happens and everything changes. That happened today. One of my beautiful wedding couples allowed me to be creative with them today and all I can say is WOW – I am so blessed with my clients. They [...]

I think its is a lovely way to say thanks to family with a lovely personal card like this one…

I shot a real estate gig for Alan from the Professionals and the client was a lovely couple who want the sea change. The husband is away and his little dog is missing him a bit. So here he is…waiting for dad.

i got arty farty Two Quotes for today: You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.  ~Wayne Gretzky The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since [...]