Last week I was honoured by being awarded a Gold Award at the AIPP WA Epson Professional Photography Awards. Also on the night, I received a category win and 3 Silver Awards.

The awards are a great opportunity to push my creativity and receive feedback from my fellow professional photographers.

How people view you or your business on a personal level is critical to success. Creating an authentic and true message to send to your potential clients is an essential step in marketing. We want to convey that we are people too; that we understand and care about our products, services, and customers. Putting a face to this message is a powerful way to get the point across. Create an executive portrait or a business portrait for our customers to see will humanize us in an increasingly dehumanized marketing environment.

After the success of last years Cancer Support WA fundraiser we decided to jump in "paws and all" to raise money again for this wonderful charity. So far we have raised another $5000 and with the sale of our 2017 calendar I expect that figure to go over $15,000. If you would like to check out our Paws of Love Website please follow this link http://www.pawsoflove.com.au/

1. Always bring an alternate set of clothes to the shoot: Things happen. For example, you arrive for filming and find that you are wearing a color that won’t work with the set, or doesn’t look right on camera. A thousand things can happen to upset your well-though-out choice of apparel. (Haven't worn it for a while? Try it on, make sure it fits).

2. Wear flattering colors near your face: Pastels, purples and browns are good. Blue is one of the best and safest colors for video. Green is risky. Ask if they will be using a green screen. If so, choose another color. If you don't know, don't wear it.

3. Be careful how you wear black: Through a camera lens, black tends to absorb much of the light around it, making details less visible. With a black background, a guest wearing black can look like a “floating head.” Black and very dark colors are usually okay when worn on the lower half of the body, such as a skirt or pants. If for some reason, you must wear black near the face, (i.e.,...

Such a busy few months! At the moment I'm working on creating new images for an exciting new Swan Valley Tourism Website for the City of Swan. I love working on helping to rebrand both big and small business. Here is Rupert the Beekeeper.

Last night I was invited to give presentation  to the Austrlian Institute of Professional Photography. Part of my presentation was this slide show showing some of the highlighs of my 25 Year career.

 Last night was our opening of The Pet Project Exhibition. Thanks to The 200 families that took part and thanks also to Channel 10 News for covering the opening. 

As many of you may be aware, I am currently working on the Pet Project for Cancer Support. To date we have raised over $60 000.This unique fundraising campaign has been set up to allow you to have a portrait taken of your beloved family pet and to raise funds for Cancer Support WA at the same time.

We are always striving to provide our clients with the very best in image quality. Along with the very latest Canon 22 mega pixel camera we have also been using the new 50 mega pixel large format camera from Pentax.

The image quality of these two cameras has to be seen to be believed!

Also we have just purchased a two meter Octa Light. We are one of only a handful of studios in WA to have one. I used one of these lights in New York last year and was very impressed with the beautiful soft quality of the light that it provides.