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A late afternoon at Palmy with Natalie Joos

I've known the Belgium born, New York based Joos sisters for quite a while now. Natalie, as well as doing the casting for some high profile shows in the fashion capitals, has been keeping busy as well with her Tales of Endearment site, Natalie was up in my neck of the woods to a story on Heidi Middleton, creative director/designer of the successful Australian brand, Sass & Bide So Natalie asked if I could do some pictures of her in her look of the week, not that I needed encouraging or coaxing to do her Look of Week for her, but as soon as she said she would be wearing Josh Goot, I was more than eager to do so , as I love Josh's clothes ( I shot his first show in New York for him )

how awesome is this Goot skirt !
Love me a good sunset anyday, add awesome clothes and I'm in photo heaven :-)




thanks for the opportunity to photograph your look of the week Natalie

Wish Lookbook

Shooting with one of Carinne's model from IMM today. IMM is a Brussels model office, and Audrey hails from Rennes in France, but has been living in Ghent for 3 years, but now she;s here with me and Bonnie shooting Wish :-)
Bonnie is giving her a quick " hair cut "
looiking better :-) Was great to shoot with a French model who knows a lot of people I know from Belgium, plus the fact she is one of Carinne's girls. ( Hi Carinne )

Cali/Cale shoot

And as usual the team work out of the back of the van, only way to go hehehe.
See those clouds, this is after we already done 2 shots, and were getting a bit worried about those clouds coming closer, but luck was on our side and we had blue sky and no rain for the rest of the shoot.
Here's a look at the previous shoot we did.

Hedgren, by Tony Spackman

So the reason I have flown to Belgium is to help launch the new capsule collection by Tony Spackman for Hedgren. They sent the bag out to me a week ago to test out, so I took it everywhere with me for the week to see how she goes. Here, waiting for my fligth to Brisbane. On set at the Chanel show In the garden of the old parliament house, Brisbane Few days later, again Chanel show, this time at Strickland House Sydney Re-hearsal as well as all my camera gear, also carries my laptop and cables Would also work well for DJ's on the move work mode day trip mode Cafe mode backpack headland mode going swimming mode Qantas lounge mode refresh shower whilst travelling mode
Bangkok Lounge mode Business class travel mode London lounge mode Travelling Europe by train mode Studio mode, so as you see, a solid all rounder

Wish Lookbook with Da Lomax

shooting in the studio at Wish today, and my lorrikeet friends are outside on the window ledge again If you're into sunflowers seeds like these guys, you would come here too Aussie girl, Caitlin Lomax, now based overseas, just flew in yesterday for a job with Wish and today the lookbook with me. Despite the jet lag, she's still got a lot of energy and stamina in front of the camera. and we're doing about 80 odd looks today, so speed is the essence and we have an audience :-)


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Meet Matt

 
Matthew Jordan to be exact Mr. Jordan is one half of Mother and Father PR ( Candice Wyman is the other half, hmmm, who's the mother out of the two ? )  
Matt is standing in for Josh, who's having his hair done. Doing a shoot with Mr.Flynn today, and James Dykes is styling. Was a fun shoot, and succesfull shoot, can't wait to show you the final results.
Ok Matt, you can make way for the talent now :-)

Grooming day

Yep, just checking myself out in the mirror again :-) Did a little trim this morning. Seriously though, shooting a grooming manual for a major luxury brand today ( will have to wait till it comes out ) and just checking composition and getting Tristan my assistant to snap me to see if I'll have enough clearance above my head ( answer, no, have to move light ) just starting on a long day, and I already look tired ( or is it bad lighting hehehehe )
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stay tuned

Wish Look Book shoot

Bonnie doing hair and make up on model du jour, Perth girl Jemma Still cold in Sydney, Jemma rugs up again during lunch break while Jemma checks up on her Iphone I work on my waist line while the girls work on the last few shots
with lots of accesories
And outside on the window ledge, the lorrikeets pay me a visit again
ok, i'll admit, maybe they do get bribed with sunflower seeds
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Stand your Ground

Drew Gardner is an English photographer, who, like most photographers , is passionate about his craft, but he is also passionate about his right to photograph in public places ( as am I , and hate this idea of photo permits ! )
So was great to see this video that Drew has come across, please watch , and tell me what you think.
Also, does anyone know what the rules are in regards to this in Australia, and if so, would there be 5 - 6 photographers out there along with a video camera, willing to test this out with me ?

ps, video frame does not fit on my blog ( why ? ) so best to click link above to view full frame

Wish look book

Shot this a few months back, forgot to post it ( well, could not on the day, as the collection was not released yet )