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Shooting Lookbook with Valentina for Truese

Charlotte Blakeney doing the make up and hair today at Wish studios looking good woohoo,looking glam poladroid glam ok, let's shoot

Couple of Quick behind the scenes shots of my production in the Northern Territory

Packing up at Glen Helen, love the rugged shapes of the rocks around in the ranges here later that afternoon, a few shots later, we are heading to a very special and spectacular location at Rainbow Valley and all hands on deck with helping out carrying a piece of equipment ( thanks guys ) just incredible rock formation ( as this is shot with my new 14mm - read, very wide angle- you don't get the enormity of these formations in this shot ) Still life on the claypan what a great outdoor tiling on the verandah this would make :-)

Meanwhile, back in Sydney

Jacqui has been bloggin up a storm as of late. what with all those personalised portrait shoots she's doing

and then coming along to my productions to be my behind the scenes photographer :-) here she shoots model Sophie between my legs. beauty and the beast alright.  This was done back in November for another Wish shoot I did, this time down in Goulburn. Jacqui has the full report here ( click ) with plenty of photos. Jacqui's new love :-)

Jil Sander AW13/14 Boys in B&W

Shooting for M.A.C. Cosmetics, girls getting ready for the ARIA's

so this was one of the reason to get back to Sydney pronto, to get behind the scenes shots of James Molloy doing his thing on the presenters for the ARIA ( australian music industry awards night ) that, and to see Jacqui & the kids again so after travelling for 28 hours, racing home to Avalon to see the kids before they go to school, have some breakfast, back in the car and back to the city to go up to the plush rooms at the Darling hotel near the casino, one could have a worse job, even though I'm tired, feeling pretty lucky to have such a fun job, and meet and work with great fun people So James and Jesinta Campbell ( did not know, but Jesinta turns out to be the Australian Finalist for Miss Universe competition, and she's a trooper )

as time goes on, more and more people are turning up, including TV crews. now I see why we are in this 3 bedroom pnethouse Michael getting ready to put in some extensions

Sam is here as well and kindred spirit Lanie Lane Jesinta, nearly finished done and she still has some time up her sleeve, so she's all like " Dear Diary " kidding No, I think she's just writing some notes for what questions she will doing when she is interviewing some of the music and fashion stars when they turn up on the red carpet what a great smile, and this is not a set up, this is genuine. Love girls with a good natural smile Mi Mate Richard Cavanagh doing hair on Maud Garrett ( another tropper I had not met before ) more troopers :-) Nicole and Diane Sam in make up Lanie in make up Maud. Yep....trooper :-) quick bronze
ready so's Maud :-) Lanie nearly made up as well, everyone looking glam indeed

so every one is glammed up, dressed up and turning up in limousines at the awards, whereas Lanie, as she is pure class, turned up at the red carpet in a white 70's Kingswood, now that's class money can't buy, love it Sam really has a great smile she's ready Jesinta doing her thing on the red carpet and looking great and she has James close by for touch ups Maud also looking great So that was fun, thanks M.A.C. for getting me involved, enjoyed it and met some great people, but now time for me to head back home and get some real sleep in a real bed :-)

Jean Charles De Castelbajac + Rossignol Winter Shoot Behind the Scenes

Benoit, our charming french male model for the day Mr Fenton, aka mr lightswitch Everyone in the studio.
So this is the reason for jumping on a plane end November from Sydney to Europe and then checking into a hotel in Paris for the night. I was asked by the Castelbajac team to come and shoot his new campaign, was pretty stoked to be asked so off I went and here we are :-) Always alot more people involved in shoots like this as opposed to shooting an editorial all hooked up to ringflash and shooting direct onto laptop
Somewhere in there is our Russian model Katya murmur murmur :-) Lucky for me, Katya had the energy I needed, and she lasted all day no problem :-) Kabouter Plop :-) checking out the shots with Alexandra
me & Jean Charles, hamming it up for the camera that time of day when I like to go a little silly ( love the new jacket by the way ) Setting up a shot with Jean Charles De Castelbajac in the picture as well, and ooops, I did not realize I was just tugging him into position like that ( bloody uncouth aussies :-) I think this is when we telling Marc to hurry up and take the photo :-)

caught my flash, blown out I really like that jacket on me love this shot, funny when I'm going, did you get the shot Marc ? looks like everyone is pretty happy with the way its going still prefer shooting without the laptop, mainly as I'm just used to lloking at the back of the camera, feels like it slwos things down this way, pros and cons not sure if you can tell, but I'm jumping with the models as I shoot. So that's probably why Jean Charles has given me the nickname Super Sonic Sonny :-)