Photo Journal

  • A fantasy photo shoot

    So part II of my day with Elle Beth comprised another location and a collaboration with creative stylist duo Carrot Inc. (Vaida Rascuite and Kristina Sumile) and extremely talented MUA Aushra Lauren. This time the brief was the same, dark background, period location.  The difference was I left the rest entirely up to Vaida and

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  • A Morning with Elle Beth…

    Once again I had the pleasure of working with Elle Beth on her trip to Ireland this week.  This day was going to be very different.  I’ll just talk about the morning for now in this post. My motivation this time was to prepare some additional panel images for my pending AIPF submission later in

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  • Knowing when to quit, and when not to!

    This morning was the first sunrise shoot I’ve managed to drag myself out of bed in the dark for in quite a while.  A quick glimpse outside tells me there’s enough cracks in the clouds to justify the effort.  No plan, just head to the sea.  Don’t know if the tide is in or out. 

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  • Fine Art Paper

    My expenditure on photo paper over the years for club competitions has been evolving slowly along with my photographic knowledge and achievements.  I have an Epson 3800 ink jet printer and for a long time have settled on Epson Premium Luster paper, knowing there were more exotic fine art papers out there, but never really

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  • A touch of style

    Today I had the pleasure of working with styling team Vaida and Kristina from Carrot Inc. for a shoot I had arranged with Rachelle Summers and Katie Lou.  It was my first time working with both models and stylists so I really was not sure how this half day would work out. To warm up

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