Julie Powell – Photographer & Graphic Artist
Creating & Capturing Life's Precious Moments
We woke early and on our way to breakfast, had to stop as a photoshoot had already started! Several models had been arranged for the weekend, this was our first Charley. many people had already been up and shot sunrise (we didn’t miss much), and were keen to already get into things. We shot before…
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I have not done a Conceptual Portrait shoot since December last year and although I think I was suffering from burn out, I did miss it. I did have a shoot back in February, but it ended up getting cancelled for a variety of reasons. Many people have been asking me when I will do…
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Continuing on with my Floral theme with Jess, I really have been flooding my blog, Instagram and Facebook page with lots of photos of Jess, but they are all just so pretty. These are taking in the backyard, with natural light, against a protea bush which is flowering like crazy. So nice to capture my…
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I have been doing a bit of a floral theme in and out of the studio with Jess of late, here are a few more – Wisteria Fantasy, very much channelling Emily Soto with these ones. I posted some more the other week [see here] still feeling inspired, from all the images we captured…
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I recently did a post with some headshots for new met Dean Whitehouse, such a lovely guy and so handsome to boot! I met him through the lovely Jess and we had proposed a Steam Punk shoot with the two of them. Dean had a fantastic array of Thrift Store goodies and I had quite…
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I recently came across a new photographic muse – Emily Soto, but not the stuff on her current website, but the deviant art link, the stuff you find on Google images, what she frequently refers to as her California images (as opposed to her current New York images which and more often B&W and much grungier).…
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A few months ago, Hayley and I planned a Medieval Styled shoot with her now 13-month-old Irish Wolf Hound, Tizzy we thought the Warburton Redwood Forest would be the perfect setting, we arranged costumes and planned out how we wanted the images to look, I wanted a very Maid Marion vibe. So recently the day…
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Pandora’s box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod’s Works and Days. The container mentioned in the original story was actually a large storage jar but the word was later mistranslated as “box.” In modern times an idiom has grown from it meaning “Any source of great and unexpected troubles”, or alternatively “A present which seems valuable…
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I did a post recently about MacArthur Park, I was lucky to have the superb weather for this shoot with Blade Whittaker. We shot on the edge of a small lake, we had also done a brief session in the studio, but the weather was too gorgeous to be inside. I had this idea in…
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A few weeks ago, I ran another portrait workshop, this time a Studio basics, on posing and direction with natural and studio lights. It was so fun and relaxed, I even managed to grab a few quite shots. Love the hi key black and white effect on these ones. Everyone had a blast, especially Jess,…
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Julie Powell - Photographer & Graphic Artist 