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FIX

Doing a shoot with Saskia Leibowitz today for a boy band called FIX.
Luke trimming the drummer's hair. Stay tuned for more pix once we make a little selection

Around Arkaba

Like I said, driest state in Australia. It is my last morning at Arkaba, and seeing South Australian Tourism commission has organizedfor me to have the use of a 4wd drive, I use it to get of the track and explore the countryside some more around Arkaba, and I'm not disappointed
Every early morning, and late afternoon all the birds come to have a drink, including hundreds of cockies and galahs
This one though, has dried up
So many interesting shapes
Slowly building a layer of top soil again. The owners of Arkaba station, which in it's hey day, would hundreds and hundreds of thousands of sheep pass through ( hence the degradation of the land ) they decided to cut back on the flock of sheep , and have taken it right back to about 3000, so as to give the land the chance the breathe and recuperate
This , in the Arkaba creek bed
the colours ! red orange , smatter of green and expansive blue
and dry.
Now I took many many more photos, but they are all for the feature story in the up coming edition of luxury travel magazine, so we will have to wait for it to hit the news stands. This was to just give you a taste

Jessica Holtham @ Arkaba

This is Adelaide model Jessica Holtham, she met us at the airport and then drove with us to Arkaba, she will be our cover model today. So I'm just quickly using her now to check the location for composition
So I set up this mini camp for our shoot

WISH LookBook

With the awesome Rachel Rutt
I think we are up to outfit number 87
We are going really fast through the shots, but the software is letting us down every now and then
We are shooting straight to computer ( and a new fast one with 8Gb Ram etc...) but still the software seizes up , so we need to re-start it all etc...
So I take a couple of shots for the blog while we wait for the re-load
The new IDs MkIII
Yeay, finished
I think we did about 110 or so outfits
now get that make off, run to 2 castings, then meet up with a boy for dinner, not a bad day for Rachel

Yeay, thanks Rachel for your hard work, we did it pretty fast all those outfits !
And now I deserve one of these

Rachel Rutt

So shooting with Rachel Rutt again today, Jay , from WISH, loves thos outfit and knows of an editor that would want to see this , so he snaps a quick one on his Iphone and sends it through( service )
Go Rachel Go Rachel ! !
quick touch up, we are half way through the morning and at about outfit number 25
I like this one

Carolyn Travaglia

Carolyn , waiting for our model Rachel Rutt to turn up
And here she is, we saw her last week at DJ's parade, but did not get the chance to say (she just got back from New York )
Ok, here we go, look book for WISH today

Vivienne Wong

Our model for the Jozette for Mirella shoot today is Australian Ballet dancer Vivienne Wong, and I'm excited about shooting a professional ballet dancer. Here Isabella is putting the finishing touches of make up on ( even tone on those legs ) while Isabel Smith, our dance adviser for the day looks on. How nice to have a dance adviser, as well as guiding Vivienne, she will look with me at the shot to make sure that technically , I captured Vivienne at the right moment of movement
Vivienne in one of the outfits in make up , just getting touched up before I grab her on set again
woosh that hair Isabella, all about volume today looking very glamourous that hair. Now you will have to wait a while to see the results, but having just checked the low res jpgs already, I'm happy with some of the shots I got today. Movement !

Sun Studios

Shooting at Sun Studios today, love shooting in here, from a photographic equipment point of view, nearly everything is here that you need.
Today I'm shooting with the people from Bloch again, but this time for one of the their fashion lines, Jozette for Mirella, and we will be having Vivienne Wong as our model, I have not met Vivienne , but she is a well known ballet dancer from the Australian Ballet

Wish Model Hannah McCarty

Our model today is Hannah, I shot with Hannah a long time ago. About 3 years ago, we did a shoot together with Danika for Dolly magazine, and had a band , the dappled cities , in the shoot as well, and Charlotte Stokes was the fashion editor

Wish Food

Nice lunch in between shots
I want one of the wraps again now
Oh, yum, save some of these for me !