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New Year, new staff? I’d love to chat!

It’s that time of year where businesses kick back into gear after the seasonal break. HR will often schedule new appointments to start fresh for the year ahead. Many professional firms have new graduate intakes, and often organisations take the chance to regroup after the holidays, with regional inductions, sales meetings or planning sessions. If you have staff coming together, or have employed new team members, this could be a great opportunity to keep both your webpage, and general marketing collateral, current. That’s where I can help with professional head shots, staff profiles, executive portraits.  Yet it may be as simple as updating email footers, an internal staff identifier board, or employee of the month promotion.

Your staff imagery is how your clients see you, often before they actually get to meet you. As they say, ‘you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression’.

If you review your current imagery of your staff, CEO, SLT, Directors, or Board – does this showcase the professionalism and warmth that project the values of your business?

If you aren’t sure, that’s how I can help. I offer all clients a ‘no cost, no obligation’ approach, and a customer satisfaction guarantee. In practise, it costs you nothing to talk about your ideas. Plus if I don’t come up with something that provides your business with value, equally, there is no charge. You can only benefit. Now that’s a win!

I have mobile studio equipment that can be set up on site to provide professional studio style portraits. While often in a boardroom or training area, this is equally able to to be set up anywhere. This could be a warehouse, office, garage or outside.The choice is yours in fact.

It needn’t be ‘flash’ (excuse the photography pun!). Often it is just a space, and you’ll be amazed just how professional the outcome is.

I will adapt your space and provide whatever lighting and background kit may be needed to produce imagery , in whatever style you require.

The advantage especially if you have several staff to profile, is they can all stay on site and remain productive. This is a cost saving to you, and makes for an efficient photo session. The advantage is staff are generally more relaxed, able to just jump in / out as needed.

If you would like to talk about options for your business, please call or email. I’ll do my best to help.

A big part of my professional day to day work is to record special occasions for clients.

What would be a special occasion you might ask?

Of course this varies. For some, it is a small and intimate event. For others, it might be a grand affair with hundreds of people. What I do know, is no two are ever quite the same!

Sometimes people just want photos having fun. Yep, I can do that!

You might see from this page and the rest of my site, that I photograph balls, formals, concerts, dances, dinners, jubilees and reunions!

Sometimes it can be a bit more serious. These boys are especially commited to their school haka, taken on their last day as they graduate from high school.

Other times, it can be quite formal, often with low light, in quite challenging conditions.

This time of year is very busy with graduations, leavers dinners, and Christmas parties.

(Oh, and concerts, corporate awards, concerts, civic events, banquets, exposés, showcases, musicals, dance recitals, cocktail parties, symposiums, hui, exhibitions, opening extravaganzas, festivals, expo’s…. in fact you name it, I have probably photographed it!).

Sometimes, it isn’t even about people! Sometimes it is a product launch, or a venue, or a space!

Whatever spins your wheels, I’m certainly here to help.

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Despite gale force winds, plans to travel up to a hut near Mt Cook were foiled recently. Yet the weekend away still kind of worked! Facing snow, rain and forceful wind at Mt Cook village, we instead made a home base in Twizel and conjoured up a Plan B.

One of the things I have always wanted to do, was explore the Tasman River braids at the Western end of Lake Pukaki. Luckily for us, and despite some trepidation at the thought of uncertain flying conditions, we managed a break in the weather, and managed some fixed wing aerial views above Pukaki. From my experience, the MacKenzie Basin and Aoraki Mt Cook National Park are certainly far from predictable – for better and for worse.

Thanks to Chris Rudge, at Red Cat Biplanes at the Pukaki airfield, we were well looked after, and were in safe hands.

Following on from our Pursuit of Giants trip to Stewart Island, we have launched a petition to try and get better protection for Great White Sharks in that area.

We urge you to take a look and sign using the link below.