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Bless'ed Are The Meek SS13/14 Fashion Show Sydney Backstage

Bless'ed Are The Meek is the label I just went out to Alice Springs for thanks to Northern Territory Tourism and shot an amazing campaign for them ( pictures coming soon ) In the meantime, you should check out these two posts again with pictures taken from the flight over to Alice and then back to Sydney from Alice Springs. And a quick look behind the scenes from the shoot......and this video Oliver Heath and Fin just put together from the shoot. 

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 :-)

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 :-)

Behind the scenes of Status jewellery shoot

Shooting locally ( which I love ) and using our place as the base. So here, on the verandah, Bex has hung up some of the outfits for the shoot. Friend from way back in the days of Frontier Aviators, Jeff Burnes, has started a new accessories company, Status, and he asked me to help him out with producing some images to market his new venture, naturally said yes.Bonnie does hair and make up on our model du jour, Phoebe Bex making good use of the kids ping pong table getting ready to head to location Bonnie does final touch up on location before I start shooting and we're off got to love that late afternoon light love this shot Jacqui snapped of Phoebe being photographed by me, thanks by the way Jacqui for all these photos change location

going through the shots ( and winning :-) awesome light The ever so talented Dan Young Whitford as my assistant, just going over the shots, to check up on my lighting ( he's a lighting guru !! ) While the model cahnges outfits Dan & I ham it up for Jacqui's camera beside the fun shot, how awesome is that light sunset as we wrap it up for the day. here's a shot from Jeff's instragam site.
Thanks to Jacqui for all the amazing behind the scenes photos, more on her blog.

Shooting with Eliza Humble today for "Me & Zozo "

shooting at Paddington reservoir, with one of the nicest, kindest models in Sydney. Which is why Jacqui decided to come gate crash the shoot so she could get a few more shots of her favourite model. As Jacqui said to me 3 years ago " Who;s the pretty blond backstage, she's the only one that always smiles for me when I point the camera at her " love mixing daylight with flash for my shoots. Click here to go to Jacqui's blog and see some more behind the scenes photos from this shoot and a few nice shots of Eliza as well :-) here's some more behind the scenes photos that Monia took as well

love this shot. Head over to Me & Zozo to see more.

here are some of the shots for the look book component I shot


















Eliza Humble natural light ( no flash ) still had 40 minutes up our sleeve so we shot some extra shots yes, yes, I did do some "skin enhancement " but ever so minimal ( like, took me 15 min ) as Eliza really has flawless skin :-)

Shooting Cosmopolitan today

And Charlotte, Fashion Editor, booked a room in the hotel close to location- we are shooting on the streets- with an awesome view of eastern suburbs possible location outside of the hotel anyway, back to this view, love it. So we are doing a street style shoot and using fashion bloggers as models ( If only Bryan Boy was in town hey ) So our models today are Montarna from Intersection, Sara from Harper & Harley, Tash & Elle from They all hate us, Bel, Love more and finishing with Nicole warne from Gary Pepper Vintage. Was a fast succesfull shoot and guess have to wait now till end sept oct to see the results. Here's a shot, I think Charlotte took it, of me shooting Tash & Elle

From 5am landing at Sydney airport, straight to Bankstwon airport for next flight

No, not here to see the police helicopter take off no, after my leg from Europe, it's straight into work mode ( love that landing somewhere and getting straight into production mode ) Super early in the morning, and we have Texas girl, Bay Berger, from Priscillas  Margaret Zhang from Shine By Three
and Jacqui from Running Under The Sprinkler, all here early freezing their butts off this early in the morning as well as make up artist, designer and client ( can't tell you more at this stage, but all will be revealed when advertising campaign is ready to hit the streets ) loading our mode of transport, this will be the smallest plane Jacqui's been on, and probably some of the other crew as well. Fun, exciting, just need a coffee though to wake up :-)
take off in golden morning light

beauty about these small planes is that they have big windows to shoot out of :-) prospect reservoir clouds over the blue mountains The Nepean river at bottom, going through the blue mountains heading towards Penrith lakes at the top of photo tiny speck of cloud on horizon is from the Mt Piper powerstation just near Lithgow the lake Burragorang created by warragamba dam in the blue mountains


the beautiful blue mountains, best spot for a good day of bush walking the grazing land beyond the blue mountains, still early and covered in patchy fog a lot of fog actually beyond Bathurst nice shot, and would be a nice shot down there as well Island mountain top of the fog fog finally clears further west ( and to think I flew over all this coming from the other direction about 2-3 hours ago, when it was still pitch black ) heading down to land and re-fuel our very own plane for the next few days :-) Jacqui trying to warm up in the sun, it gets a bit cold on these planes when you sit at the back ( heater in the front does not quite reach to the back ) re-fuelling the plane at Swan Hill, western N.S.W., just north of Victorian border. Now this is where I stop the post, we continue on flying and get there in time for late afternoon, but that's all I can say. We ended up doing some fantastic photos on an awesome location with a great team. Was awesome, but, we just going to have to wait as we do not want to spoil the surprise. So begin September the campaign will be released and I will post more flight photos, and both Jacqui and Margaret will post behind the scenes photos and videos. And will post end result, plus a great flight back to Sydney. So stay tuned.

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