Tuesdays of Texture – Once I was whole.

I was once whole, I was once me – whoever Me is? How do we end up where we do? I don’t even think the bits and pieces were stolen or given away, I think just we misplace them. Who do you see when you look in the mirror? I look in the mirror and…

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In the Studio – Karen’s Sneak Peek

I generally do not post about straight portraits shoot that I do in the studio, but I met this woman last week, and apart from really hitting it off, she was such a powerhouse, so vibrant and energetic; I adore working with that sort of person, I guess it offsets my shy quiet side 🙂…

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Regular Random – Cabbage Rose #2

So last week I featured some photos I took of some recently acquired cabbage roses, these were such fun to work with, sadly did not last weeks and weeks as promised, but I still managed to do a few shots with them. This week is on black perspex, loving the reflections. Shot with Sony a7ii…

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Fabulous Friday Flowers- Simple White Gerbera

A simple offering today of a beautiful white gerbera, such a happy feel good flower I literally have an EPIC weekend this weekend and will not be back on deck until Tuesday, and I will begin to fill you all in on that. I wish you fun, adventures and most of all laughter on this…

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Winter Workshops – Carnival of Darkness Conceptual Portraits

For me, Winter is the height of the workshop season, as it is cold and wet and people prefer to be inside, my long anticipated Conceptual Workshop for this season was finally here. Sold out, of course. Beautiful Jess was our model and we played predominately with lighting, posing and direction, with an emphasis on…

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Winter Weekend Wanderings – Woodend, Tooborac and Heathcote

After leaving Trentham Falls on a Winters day out, we stopped at Woodend for Fish and Chips for lunch and to look around the area, we spotted a few historic landmarks including the historic Woodend Bridge, sadly with graffiti! We then drove on to Tooborac via Lancefield, on the way to Heathcote, to visit a…

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Share Your World – 24th July 2018

In regards to puzzle what’s your choice: jigsaw, crossword, word search, mazes, logic or numeric puzzles, something else, or nothing? I am not big on puzzles, I don’t mind the occasional word search, but I am not really into jigsaw puzzles. I used to attempt them, but I always remember getting frustrated, I would rather draw…

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One Man’s Trash is another Man’s Treasure…right?

I have sitting in the corner of my Studio a big bucket of ‘junk’ thanks to Moth. For nearly 30 years he has been bringing home bits of scrap metal from work, that most people would throw in the bin. He used to collect and clean it up a bit and sell off for scrap…

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Monday’s Musings…

What started out as a full on weekend, ended up being quite relaxing and wonderful. I had a fantastic shoot with a new client on Friday, it was such an amazing morning, full of fun and laughter. Jess and I had planned a day or shoots and ideas for an upcoming workshop, but the poor…

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Regular Random – Cabbage Roses #1

I recently came across something I had heard of, but I don’t think I have ever seen, the simple Cabbage Rose. The lady at the florist actually told me they were Western Australian Wax Flowers, but a quick look on Google and I saw that they were not, another search made me feel that they…

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