culture mag: flights of fancy

model: suzi leenaards

hair & makeup: lidija j

designer: lynn to

designer assistant: tanya pham

i'm so excited to finally be able to release this editorial i've been hiding away for months and months. i am even more super excited that it got printed in culture magazine! it's always so lovely to see your photos printed, they have such a different feel to them. now my next aim is to shoot an editorial for russh or oyster! you can also get one of these photos as a lovely wallpaper that culture made to decorate your computer,

here

.

wizard with amelia zadro

a few rainy week ago the wonderful oh deer vintage contacted me to shoot with their clothes. being in love with anything vintage, floral and in the form of a dress i said yes in a heartbeat. they sent me a box of clothes and so started this little photo story in a white abandoned house by the beach.

model: amelia z

makeup artist:

abbey love

designer:

oh deer vintage

 or find them on

facebook

indie rose

late last year i shot age of intimacy's lovely collection for twenty-eleven, indie rose. the day begun in tears with a misunderstand between me and a uni teacher. i emailed them the day before asking to do my presentation of my progress in class first so i can leave early to get to a job i had booked for later that morning. long story short, she must have missed my email and told me to choose between "my studies and my career". obviously i chose what i love, my career, and headed off with a cloudy head.

i got to the location just before noon, where hair and makeup was being finished up. we were shooting in an upstairs vintage bar in the city, with nude paintings hung in golden ornate frames on every inch of the brindle walls. after a couple of hours of shooting the first few pieces of the location, we changed coraline's hair and headed off to the next location; the middle of nowhere.

holding a broken old suitcase, coraline walked down the side of the road as i filmed her. the afternoon sun warmed our goosebump skin as we shot the next few pieces of the indie rose collection in the prickly grass. poor coraline had to endure cars driving back and forth beeping at us as we were working. when i scouted the location a few weeks earlier, it was completely deserted. today, it was the busiest it must have ever been.

as the sun dimmed, we all got in the car and roadtripped back to the city. i filmed the blurry lights and black trees and when i watch the video i want to melt back into the day and do it all over again. we got back to dear old sydney and parked next to hyde park, our last location for the day. we all sipped on hot chocolate on a bench at the park trying to warm up, it was pitch black and cold by now, our skin and my pictures lit up by tungsten artificial sun.

we shot the last few photos and i rode back home in tired-bliss thinking about the long day. before i went to bed i got an email from my teacher stating that she finally found and read the email i sent and apologised for everything. ha.

but anyway, that's my little story of this big day. i hope you enjoy the collection photos. you should check out age of intimacy's website

here

, they are so so amazing! oh, and please click the little blue facebook link in the corner if you like this post to share the photos with the world!

suzi rose collection: she's a dreamer

models: lillian, kellie & kayla

for

suzi rose

designs

not too long ago i spent a day at my office shooting suzi rose's newest (and very cute) collection, she's a dreamer. there were countless outfits, purple and gold strewn about our picnic blanket on the sand. we spent a lot of the time taking photos walking through the little rock pools and getting the dresses wet, strangers watching by the shoreline. at the end of the day the girls were even game enough to get into the water, its supposed to be summer here in australia but it hasn't been half as hot as it usually is!

i drove back home from wollongong with red sunburnt shoulders & the rest of my skin on fire, but was so excited about the photos i started editing straight away. i'm currently putting together a short film from everything i filmed on the day while i was shooting. hopefully i can finish it before christmas so i can show you all the dreamy day in moving pictures.

sydney shootout!

when i saw rosie hardy put together her shootout day, i thought it was an amazing idea and was inspired to do the same thing - sydney version! 10 of us met up at sydney college of the arts one saturday morning and shot through the day. i had a great time, and it was lovely to meet so many new faces that are as much in love with taking pictures as i am, it doesn't make me feel guilty talking all photo mumbo-jumbo! since this shootout was successful, i am definitely going to plan another one! maybe the next one we can shoot at the beach and learn how to work with harsh lighting conditions.. it's all plans in my head for the time being!

the model is the beautiful ayesha jaye, who totally kept her cool posing in front of ten different camera lenses!

suzi rose

very kindly let us borrow her clothes for the day &

ally cussell

was on makeup.

here are a few links to everyone else's photos from the day, i will hopefully be adding everyone to the list as they post their photos!

luke m

secretstare photography

lauren stella photography

maraia photography

chantelle k

rebecca brooke

enjoy!

and some behind the scenes photos from the day:

passer-by train

model: courtney

makeup artist: cathy hedley

for javertime magazine.

last day of magic

model: andrea buckman

i have been waiting for aaages to release these photos and i'm so excited they're finally on my blog! you can see the cover and the editorial and order a copy as well

here

!

here's a little behind the scenes video from our day:

music composed and recorded by dan podbierezki.

you are a fever

model: benny

stylist: tamika

i took photos of tamika's lover one morning. the three of us exploring the abandoned buildings behind my uni.

dandelion love

models: sarah s & liam

designers: lynn to, mim goode & kamelia allaf

this is a little swimsuit collection i shot for my friend lynn in kamelia's backyard with a trampoline and bubbles one afternoon. i woke up to a message that morning from the model i had booked saying she couldn't make it.. the four of us were frantically searching around for someone to shoot when mim asked the beautiful sarah. she had never modelled before but was completely natural and lovely while i was taking pictures. i collapsed in my seat on the train ride home soo relieved that the day worked out after all, the series even ended up being published in the latest issue of javertime magazine! 

i hope you love dandelion love, and all the drama that came with it on the day! a few people have been asking so i thought i'd mention that all the photos expect for the last two in this series were edited with my free curve friday curves. some were mixtures of two curves and some were completely new curves that i am due to upload for you all soon!

the linnet bird

model: shannon

makeup: marie

designer: alicia doust designs

so on wednesday night i was booked for a last minute shoot the following morning for alicia's amazing designs. dan and i woke up at six am and drove down to coogee beach where all was cloudy and rainy, but beautifully blue for the shoot. hair & makeup was ready by the time we got there, so from there we spent a couple of hours walking through the rocks & the rock pool shooting against the waves crashing up against the shore of jagged edges. i couldn't be more happy with the results from this shoot which literally happened overnight (as well as all the editing)! 

my silent film

this is a little pre-shoot i did with age of intimacy for their new collection titled "indie rose". i will be shooting their whole campaign in a couple of weeks and i couldn't be more excited! their style & clothes are absolutely amazing.

model: coraline @ chadwicks

makeup artist: marija m

wearing:

age of intimacy

's kimono

gitana (gypsy girl)

other photographer, shoot planner:

mathew sacco

@ www.evokeimages.com.au

(check out his side of the shoot on his blog:

http://evokeimages.com.au/blog/?p=1315

)

model:

erica east

hair & makeup:

abbey love

@ www.abbeylove.com.au

assistant:

tina tran

location:

sheree gaulke

@ www.shedesigns.com.au

fashion:

frolic wollongong

@ www.frolicgirls.com.au

behind the scenes film/photography:

lucy jean

i couldn't have asked to be part of a more wonderful shoot, everyone was just working their talented magic from the (very) early morning to late afternoon! the location sheree so kindly let us use for the shoot (her home!) was breathtaking - she had white wooden floorboards and black walls, mirrors and chandeliers hanging in every room, old rusty doors that lead to no where stacked by the kitchen, and pretty little in betweens on the random surfaces around the living room. 

and mathew sacco, who once again i am ecstatic i get to work beside and who put this entire day together was absolutely amazing. he has a few pictures up on his blog already (which i loooooove) and i can't wait to see the rest!! so keep an eye out :)

lots more blogging to come soon!

x

age of intimacy test shoot

yesterday i met up with the girls of age of intimacy for a model casting for their next campaign i will be shooting. they have an amazing studio (which they just moved into three weeks ago but look like they've been living there for years!). inspiration and drawings are hung up on the walls, flowers and animal masks dangling everywhere - one of them a lion mask, just like the ragdoll kitty prowling around on the ground. they have rickety bookshelves filled with empty jars and issues upon issues of oyster magazine.

the girl in the photos is the first model we met with, her name is coraline. we shot some standard tests against a white wall with window light, then took some photos in the extra rooms around the studio-factory. i asked her to lay on the rug, looking at the sky.

grass and sand

model: teigan

wearing: suzi rose

makeup: lidija j

just a few outtakes from my winter campaign shoot for the amazing suzi rose, i finally have an afternoon to myself so i thought i'd go back and edit some older photos :)

time waster

model: tamika

mua: bec garozzo

washing day

down by the river

 model: alexandrea sophie

desert rose campaign

designer: suzi rose @ www.suzirose.com

models: teigan, kellie & lillian

makeup artist: lidija j

a couple of weeks ago i got to shoot for the very talented australian designer suzi rose. we shot her amazing new collection under burning sun & at the very tiring but oh so beautiful cronulla sand dunes.

this morning

model: caitlin

makeup aritst: lidija

*sneak peek from this morning*

night owl

this is the beautiful jess blain again with her crazy colourful tights & night owl eyes. we shot this on the rooftop parking somewhere in the city.

model: jessica b

makeup artist: jesika t

toy boats toy boats toy boats

my camera's self timer remote finally arrived two days ago and i can take self portraits again. this was a quick one in my front yard, and a toy boat (try saying that ten time in a row). lots more pictures to come soon, hopefully some manipulations more so than anything! i miss making crazy things with photoshop. in this photo all i did was add the clouds and get rid of some powerlines.