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Editor’s welcome
Photographing your neighbourhood with James Lamb
Real Fresh Hutt Valleycompetition winners and finalists
Rising star with Matthew Chen
Outdoor action photography with Andy Jenkins
Taking flight with Tracey Perrin
The joy of continuously learning with Richard Sellwood Excio top 12 of 2022
Sharing skills
Volume II Issue 4
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Dear reader,
It’s hard to believe that 2023 is just around the corner! In this last issue of 2022, we feature a diverse range of photographers and photography genres. We’ve been talking to Matthew, a super talented 16-year-old who has already made photography his passion and career, we also hear the story of how Tracey found her unique niche and made creative photography her business. We then have James Lamb with a guest article about photographing your neighbourhood, Andy Jenkins talking about his amazing action-packed photography and Richard Sellwood sharing his creative journey.
Ana Lyubich Co-founder, CEO of ExcioWe are also announcing the winners and finalists of the Real Fresh Hutt Valley competition. It was a really hard choice to select the best from more than 880 entries - I was one of the judges and know the calibre of entries was very high. Well done, and congratulations to everyone who made it. I hope that it inspires you to take your camera more often and tell more stories using your lens.
On the following pages, you will also see we feature twelve impactful photographs of 2022 from our members. That’s been an even harder choice! From thousands of photographs shared this year on our Excio Hub, community group, Image Library and uploaded to our Excio app, we could only select twelve. I hope you enjoy the selection, and for those who made it to our pages - go ahead and celebrate your achievements!
We have big plans for next year so fasten your seatbelts - lots of exciting things are on the horizon at Excio! From courses to help you get rid of imposter syndrome to more exciting features, interviews and events that will boost your confidence and help you take photography to the next level. Not to mention new challenges and competitions, starting with “Show us your neighbourhood”, which runs from December.
Summer is a great time to practice your photography skills - an important thing to remember every time you click the shutter is that the photo you just captured never existed before. What you are capturing is truly unique, and you shouldn’t compare your work to others. Photograph what you really love, experiment with creative angles and compositions and, most of all, enjoy some time off from the ‘real world’. We are here to help you bring your story to life through photography, so when you capture something you can’t wait to share with the world or have a project you think can make an impact, upload your work to our app, Image Library or share it in the Excio Hub for others to see.
We wish you and your families a very happy holiday season and look forward to seeing more of your work!
Ana.
In this issue, we invited James Lamb to take part in a guest article as part of the collaboration between Excio and HuttValleyNZ. James paints, in words, his pride in his hometown and also shares his photography work that will inspire you to get your camera ready and start exploring what’s around you. We encourage you to get out and express your own neighbourhood with such enthusiasm and vision. It’s a privilege getting behind the scenes at Lower Hutt businesses as part of Hutt City Council’s
business and economy team. We’re constantly meeting and connecting incredibly talented people across our city.
Learning about Excio being a Gold Awards finalist, I recall Googling for more information, putting down my computer mouse and exclaiming, “of course –you’re from Wainuiomata!” I felt pretty impressed that a new fairtrade stock photo library was born out of Lower Hutt and leading the way globally. This was something I could get behind.
Alongside our own promotional work, we’re often asked by local businesses, organisations, and event managers for images of our city. I see Excio’s new operating model as a great way to grow a community of local contributors to create a go-to resource of fresh, authentic, high quality images that many around us can use. With an affordable entry point and socially conscious ethos, organisations like ours could even go so far as adopting Excio as their own image library. As promoters of all things Hutt Valley, we can support a community of photographers around us by offering up a shopping list of what we’re after and seeing those being used by many others and our stories shared further. By subscribing, we’re effectively employing a range of local talent to help us reflect who we are as our city. Not to mention all the pride when we see local images being picked up and used across the rest of the world.
So how do we capture our place? We’ve recently revisited what we think makes a great photo to represent us and appeal to visitors. In years past, we would agonise over taking the perfect static postcard shot of a place with plenty of blue sky, leafy greens and warm colours to show off our slice of heaven. Now more and more, we’ve found it’s the opposite of that. Dynamic, action-filled and featuring people, our neighbourhoods, and something I haven’t put my finger on yet: the feeling of being at ease and at home within a space that’s constantly being reinvented for the better.
We’re a humble bunch here in the Hutt Valley. A resilient bunch who just get on with it, often times creating remarkable new products and global firsts. It’s no doubt our Whenua, our communities and our industry have shaped that reinvention. Nestled in a valley of New Zealand’s most densely populated
floodplain, our city has grown and evolved. It was moved after an earthquake in 1855, previously being one of Aotearoa’s centres for new migrants. It has watched big industry fade as new smaller, nicer, industries and businesses have emerged. It may be an urban legend, but it is often said that there are 400% more researchers and scientists per capita in Lower Hutt. They’re adding to this innovation, and we know that being a short walk from nature is a big part of their reason for living here.
All of this is a big part of why visitors come to the Hutt Valley. If Wellington Airport was the driveway, Wellington City could be the kitchen and lounge (think the stadium). Petone’s the garage where we’ll tinker and invent new things, and the rest of the Hutt is the big backyard. With plenty on offer outdoors, it rings true. It’s a place where we are a little more relaxed and casual, spend time with friends, go for a swim and feel at ease.
It’s this feeling we’re aiming for in photos that promote the Hutt Valley. We want to invite the viewer to be part of our neighbourhood, get in on the action or admire the landscape.
I love looking at a new place online and seeing photos that pull me in – it might be that an image invites me in with a glance over the shoulder from a walker following a group on an epic bushwalk or looking across the handlebars with just a hint of a helmet out of focus at the top over to a rider in the left of frame who’s giving me the thumbs up on top of a hill trail with a stunning view.
Photos like this are a great way to show people who are visiting our neighbourhood what’s on offer, and
will put money in the tills of businesses we can add their products or experiences to, but it’s the attitude and personality of a place that we’ve found makes people look again. We want to capture something real, from a fresh perspective, showing the vibrancy and diversity of the Hutt.
The ultimate for me is to have that immersive welcome into the image from an everyday local – a shop owner, café barista or artist showing us around some hidden gems. A holiday to another part of Aotearoa or simply a day out of the office escaping to a new part of the city is as much about enriching our minds as it is about doing something different.
In terms of my own photographic journey, I don’t think I got the art of photography when I did it as a first-year design paper at Massey in Wellington, I was too literal as all of my photos to that point had been recordings of things I’d done in life or documenting places I’d been. Using the darkroom to process all our prints is what I recall most vividly, perhaps because it was a real skill to develop our own prints, and I probably spent more time perfecting my abilities under red light than I did capturing a subject in front of the lens.
A trip to the Wanaka Warbirds Airshow was when I first really picked up a camera with the intent of capturing a different perspective of life in front of us. My favourite photo out of hundreds of my usual documenting of historic aircraft was an image of a green shoe. I’d clearly taken it by mistake, there on the ground beside a picnic mat on tinder-dry grass below the shadows of bystanders all jostling for an overhead view behind a wire fence. When I think of it now, it instantly brings back memories of the
heat of the long day out gazing up at aircraft, fields of people, the chuckles of the friends I was with, and funnily enough, the music we listened to all throughout that day.
That mistake reset is what I now look for in a good photo. Something that captures the experience that’s not your usual, as well as small moments of beauty in nature. A koru unfurling in my backyard, a rata tree blossoming, or tui coming back for the kowhai tree.
These small moments led me to try to capture the perfect moment through the aperture out on the sports field. Timing was everything, and I earned the accolade of being the Dad who could make young sportspeople look like heroes with the bat and ball. I’ve loved being able to capture the expressions of young sports players’ faces behind a 400mm lens from the sideline and gift them to parents who’ve sometimes been quite surprised by both steely looks and utter joy on their player’s face.
An evening learning astrophotography in Wainuiomata recently re-ignited my love of photography and getting creative in front of the lens. I was fortunate to join local photographer Glen Butler who hosted a few dozen of us wanting to know more and practice long exposures and experiment with light. Thanks to Greater Wellington
Regional Council, we were able to get up to the water treatment plant in the Wainuiomata Recreation Area, which seems a world away just up the road. Hosting international visitors and seeing their reaction to being able to see stars at night is another reason to appreciate living in New Zealand.
For this competition, we received more than 880 entries which made the judging incredibly hard. The entries were judged anonymously based on the criteria, skills of the photographer, quality and, of course, the story that the photo was telling. We would like to give special thanks to our judges, James Lamb, Alan Blundell, and Ana Lyubich, for their time and effort in making super hard decisions when shortlisting the candidates and selecting the winners.
Now, the drum roll, please! Our huge congratulations to all winners, finalists and highly commended entries - you made it to the very top, and your photographs
will now help tell the stories of the beautiful Hutt Valley. We hope you find time to celebrate your achievements, as we are very proud of you all. What a great way to end 2022!
If you haven’t made it this time, don’t worry - we have more competitions and challenges planned for 2023. Plus, if you submitted more than five images to the competition, you may be eligible for a complimentary Excio membership which means even more fun! You can follow us on social media or join our free Excio Hub to be in the know.
Best hidden secrets at Staglands. ZHANNA YASINETSKAYAThe First year Aston Norwood did their “After Dark” entrance with the lights and the beautiful blossom trees. With the lake being absolutely still, it was the perfect mirror image.
SAMUEL YAMOAH
Lion’s Rock at Wainuomata at sunset - You can see the South Island in the background too! BRYA WALLACE /BWP PHOTOGRAPHY
I met these ladies while out on a Sunday walk. They agreed to pose with their ice creams for me.
KAREN MILLER
Taking a stroll after dinner in Petone beach, the best backyard ever.
Enjoying the beach at Eastbourne. CYNTHIA STOKS
The very best burger and fries can be found at Twenty Eight. Even these little hands agree.
KAYLEE BUTTERS
Saturday morning at Hills Hats, Petone, trying on special hats.
CYNTHIA STOKS
Gateway to the beach, Eastbourne. KATHARINE GOOD
A showcase of how dark the skies are along Wanuiomata Beach. Taken in early Autumn this year, you see our galactic core rising over the end of the North Island. With no light pollution from surrounding areas affecting the stars, my camera is able to pick up molecular dust, nebulae and thousands of stars. Unfortunately, our eyes are too poor to see this in real life, but if you look closely and let your eyes adjust to the darkness, you can make out the shape of our Milky Way Core with your naked eye.
ATLEY DURETTE
I took this photo one winter’s evening out on the Wainuiomata Coast. The seagulls happened to be flying, and I captured this image.
BROCK KILBURN
Early morning down by the weir, a great place to take photos.
Petone beach. ZHANNA YASINETSKAYA
Petone Wharf. Making the most of the calm seas and the epic views.
ALISON WILSON
I was walking past a Kowhai Tree during one of my walks in Stokes Valley when I saw a Tui having a good feed. I aimed my camera towards him and took a few shots, and was rewarded with this peek-a-boo gem!
ROSA STEWART
There’s nothing like a very strong breeze to fill these windsurfers with joy off the beach in Eastbourne.
PIPPA DE COURT
Enjoying Harcourt park pool. LAUREN PHILBERT
Hiking with my favourite companion on the Kaitoke Ridge Track.
KELSEY FLY
Cup Day 2020. SAMUEL YAMOAH
My partner and one-year-old daughter at Days Bay on my birthday. Catching some sun and sand!
CORINNE SEALS
Matthew is sixteen-years-old and lives in Auckland. Ironically, his photography journey started when he dropped his sister’s camera at Disneyland when he was six, he hasn’t looked back since!
Working to earn ‘money’ through chores to repay my parents for the dropped camera at Disneyland initially exposed me to the world of photography, but what attracted me was all of the amazing and high-tech camera gear that I saw while shopping for another camera for my sister!
Over the years, as I grew up, my photography inspiration changed from gear to the surrounding world. I frequently become inspired to take photos by thinking about the processes in the world around me, for example, one idea that recently inspired me was the idea of being present and watching people knowingly. I notice the little things with light and shade and love observing and capturing the shadows cast by houses and the morning sun that shines through windows. I’ve also been inspired by the eerie qualities of the evening light, photographing many houses for my school portfolio project.
I enjoy all genres of photography, but my favourites are portraits and photojournalism. I love working with people and photojournalism because of the candid and raw nature of the work. Commercial event photography, in some way, combines my two favourite genres, capturing the raw moments of the scene but also having to think about the composition of people.
I currently shoot with a Canon EOS R5 and Canon EF lenses. I find the R5’s eye-tracking feature immensely useful for all kinds of photography as the feature takes my brain off the menial tasks of focusing and lets me focus on the creative aspects of the craft.
A family friend owns a furniture company and offered me a part-time position to take photographs of the new inventory, which also includes editing and posting the photos on their social media. The company tagged my account in the posts, and over the years, people have contacted me, allowing me to build my clientele. Today, I primarily shoot commercial events and product photography for small businesses.
Presently, I have found communicating with models my biggest challenge. Being so focused on the photographic work during a photo shoot,
I sometimes forget that I am working with real people that I have to keep engaged and lively. I always need to remind myself to be cheerful no matter the photographic outcome and be lively with everyone working with me in the studio to lighten the mood.
If you love photography, take visual arts! This subject is a great way to explore your interest and develop your artistic and photographic eye. Your teacher can help you see the world from the perspective of other artists, which really helps with photography because seeing different perspectives broadens
your photographic lens, making your photos more interesting and unique!
Also, take lots of photos but don’t let photography hinder your life! Practice is super important to photography, as with all other skills, and only by taking thousands of photos can you get better at photography. But don’t let this get in the way of your daily life: don’t go out to specifically take photos for the sake of taking photos. Instead, look for the things that are interesting around you and capture interesting moments of your daily life – photography, different to other forms of art, is mostly about capturing the sporadic and candid conditions around us.
While I was working on super yachts, we would be moored in the most stunning locations that naturally lent themselves to photography. I remember talking in 2017 to the captain of my first yacht (formerly a professional photographer) about getting a new iPhone so I could take better photos of all these beautiful places. He asked why I didn’t just get a
proper camera, and so within the week, I found myself at the local tech store with the captain helping me pick out my first camera. I purchased a Nikon D750 with a kit lens that went everywhere with me when I wasn’t working. I didn’t get a lot of time off while working on the yachts, but when I did, I would be out exploring the local towns, camera in hand every chance I got.
I have an equal passion for both being in the outdoors and exploring and documenting these people and places with my camera. That feeling you get when you have an amazing scene unfolding before your eyes, and you know you’re about to capture some awesome images is pretty hard to beat for me.
I am always trying to do a place or an activity justice when I am photographing it. I really try to capture the mood of what is unfolding so the viewer can really feel like they are there.
Winning student photographer of the year at the NZIPP Iris awards was quite surreal and definitely unexpected. Thousands of images are entered across a number of categories, such as landscape, portrait, commercial, student etc., and each image has the potential to score a gold, silver, bronze or professional standard award. At the end of the judging, the photographers with the highest scoring images in each category are nominated for photographer of the year for said category.
There were a lot of very talented photographers who entered this year, so I was humbled to do as well as I did. It was an amazing experience not only for the awards but for meeting like-minded people and networking too.
One of my favourite images I’ve taken to date is a drone photo of a surfer catching a wave in Whangamata on a summer morning. This shot was more a stroke of luck than anything else, but everything just seemed to come together perfectly as I took the photo.
Something I have learned from uni is that a rising tide lifts all boats. When you get together with like-minded individuals and share knowledge and ideas, everyone improves. Each photographer has a different set of skills and experience to bring to the table, so having a place like Excio where people can come together and share expertise and ideas is fantastic.
I would love to see some workshops from other photographers who are passionate in their area. I find branching out and learning about genres or
styles of photography that may not necessarily be your cup of tea can still be very beneficial for your own photography journey.
I am only a few weeks away from finishing my diploma in photography at UCOL, so it will be all go until then. When I finish, I am taking some time to relax up North before I hopefully begin my journey as a photographer for the RNZAF next year. I intend to have a good summer with lots of sunny adventures and beach days. Taking lots of photos along the way, of course!
Interview with Tracey Perrin
My interest in photography started in high school in the mid-1980s when I was 16. Back then, it was an extracurricular class, and I did not have an SLR camera to be able to partake in the class, but the desire was there. I ended up leaving school that year and went into the workforce, managing to buy
my first SLR camera and doing a few night courses at my old high school. After that, in 1990, I decided to become an adult student (aged 20) to further my education and completed 6 form photography, learning how to develop and print black and white film. My teacher Tony Bridge was a great inspiration and, to this day, remains a friend.
I continued taking photos over the years, but they were mainly family-orientated shots using film, which was expensive to develop, especially as a single mother studying for a bachelor’s degree in Teaching and Learning Early Childhood Education, which I completed aged 39.
When digital cameras came out, I bought a cheap point-and-shoot Fuji camera and played around with that until I bought my first DSLR entry Canon 1100D in 2012. When my position as a teacher ended, I decided to look at other options. Photography
was still a passion of mine, so I started thinking about combining my love of photography and my knowledge of working with children and started learning how to use Photoshop Elements.
I have now upgraded to the Canon 80D and 6Dii and have a number of lenses to play with. I also now subscribe to the full version of Photoshop. I completed a Diploma of Photography through SIT (Southern Institute of Technology) in 2018 when I was 48 because I believe you can never stop learning.
Photography has been a passion of mine for so long, it’s like an addiction! I think about photography and edit photos in Photoshop pretty much every day! Picking up my camera is my happy place, it keeps me sane. As an artist, I love the creative process of taking photos and then bringing them into Photoshop to edit, as I have full control over what and how I shoot and edit my images.
About 8 years ago, I was inspired while watching the NZIPP IRIS Awards Creative category. This led me to research how to create composites, and I started following and becoming friends with fairy photographers from different countries.
The final image in the series won the Gold medal and overall champion winner in the 2022 North Shore Salon, while two of my other photos won Silver and Bronze awards in the NZIPP Sony IRIS awards.
Fairy photographers capture the innocence of childhood and the magic in life. Bringing to life dreams and wishes, leaving imprints in the minds of the children and capturing a moment in time that is never forgotten. Although it is mainly aimed at children aged 3 and up, I would also like to photograph women of all ages.
It’s funny because if anyone had said to me 10 years ago that I would be stalking and photographing birds, I would have laughed! Not that I did not like birds, I have always loved them, but I never thought I would go out just to photograph them.
I started becoming more serious about bird photography after I got my Sigma 150mm-600mm lens in August 2020, a present to myself for my 50th birthday.
The aim of my bird photography is to show off the uniqueness and beauty of our wildlife here in Christchurch. Recently, I have been working on a project called Alone, so called because we all, at times, feel alone.
The series is about a local White Heron/Kōtuku who winters close to where I live and touches on mental health with the first image being dark and the final image being light and free.
At this stage, I would like to get my name out there a bit more, grow my Faerietastic Photography business by getting regular clients, and continue with my artistic bird photography work, possibly having an exhibition one day. I also want to make my work available for sale; currently, I am selling 2023 bird calendars.
I started as a hobbyist when my parents gave me a Yashica FX3 as a teenager. I quickly started learning the craft, buying a couple of extra lenses along the way. Photography came and went over the coming years with different cameras, but became a big focus 7 years ago when I upgraded to a new camera and lenses.
Photography has so many different aspects that I find myself continuously learning - the theory, the gadgetry and the artistry are all interesting to me. But I think, ultimately, I enjoy capturing a scene or object into what I consider to be a well-composed image.
I’m still trying to work out my main genre of photography (landscape, architecture etc...), |so I’ll have a go at most things.
I will usually plan a photo shoot of a subject that gives me an opportunity to try a new piece of kit or a new technique. I often find that the final product is different from what I might have hoped, but there are always learnings along the way which keep me picking up my camera.
One time I read of someone who was experimenting with re-purposing his photos, with interesting results, using an old photo as a background. At the time, I was entering a contest for an oil and water image, so I decided to try to incorporate a repurposed photo.
One image shows the insides of a piano with the oil and water on top (you can see the diagonal wires). Another is a background of horizontal camera movement on Wellington Harbors’ lights.
The challenge was how to do it. I displayed the old images on a horizontal screen and put the oil and water on top, resulting in a top-down photo.
I can be inspired by seeing other people’s work. One time I was keen to emulate a street light scene from a high building. The challenge for this image was, of course, the location, but also how to deal with the reflections on the window from the internal lights. In the end, I purchased some large rubber hoods online, and I was pleased with the result.
Another time I saw a tabletop still life that I liked and decided to emulate. Looking at my version of the desktop again now, I’d do it differently, but it was fun to try at the time.
I will also go out for a few hours on the weekend with an idea in mind if time allows, often returning to an area or subject where I’ve not previously had my camera with me.
I’m always reading photography books or reading articles on a given topic or technique I’m interested in. I’m always on the lookout for the next course to complete, and I follow several YouTube channels. I also challenge myself to reproduce interesting photographic techniques I might come across, and I also find that entering competitions can also be a good challenge.
I became interested in stock photography through having so many photos that just sit on a disk unseen. Also, the idea of potentially making money from my photos was appealing. My wife initially showed me an interesting article about Excio, and after looking at several other options, I joined Excio. I plan to put more time into my portfolio in the future and am looking forward to learning more about stock photography in general and getting to know the community members.
2022 is coming to an end, and what a year it has been! For many of us, it’s been challenging in different aspects, not to mention getting used to the ‘new normal’ but photography is what keeps us going. It helps us on our hardest days, brings excitement to our lives when we most need it and preserves memories for us. In our selection of the 12 most impactful photographs of 2022 from Excio members, we selected those that bought stories to life, whether or not they had accompanying words.
I had a chance to go walkabout with my camera and some visitors the other day. I was lucky to strike a nice sunny day in Wellington, so created this multiple exposure of local sites.
BY ANN KILPATRICK
Two images I originally took at Zealandia Ecosanctuary in Wellington, New Zealand. One of a Kererū and one of a landscape, blended together to create a double exposure effect.
If Queen Street was in Queenstown…
I find joy in so many things. But one of the things that truly bring me joy is trying slightly random techniques and discovering an image I love within it. This is one of my most recent images that brought me that joy and simply involved frozen water, food colouring, and time.
I discovered three Pied Shag chicks in the nest at Zealandia and a very busy parent feeding them all.
A Fantail (Piwakawaka) in flight chasing midges. Fantails are aerial acrobats that feed on insects. They have whiskers around the base of their beaks that help capture flying insects.
Breastfeeding baby.
Warkworth Satellite Station. New Zealand sent its first phone messages to Britain by satellite in 1965 using INTELSAT-1, but the country really entered the space age in July 1971 when the Post Office opened its Satellite Earth Station at Warkworth, north of Auckland. NEC supplied the technology for the biggest advance in international communications since the opening of the Wakapuaka cable station in 1876.
PHOTO BY MIKE MOORE
Soul finder. Start every day with new hope. Leave bad memories and have faith for a better tomorrow.
The silhouette of a man deflating a hot air balloon at Wairarapa’s 2022 Balloon Festival.
Whilst travelling by ferry to Tiritiri Matangi Island, I photographed these two people fishing on the Waitematā (sparkling waters) harbour.
Many Excio members provide photography services to share their skills. We’re excited to profile the range of talent available from our members in our Journal. If you have a photography service which you would like to share, as a member you can submit your 100 word profile to hello@excio.io.
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If you are wanting to learn to use your camera in a more social, convivial situation than a traditional workshop… «Picture This Photography Weekends» is for you.
If you are more experienced and just want to shoot in the company of other photographers…. «Picture This Photography Weekends» is for you.
If you want to go to some of NZ’s most epic locations… «Picture This Photography Weekends» is for you.
If you want 2 tutors who are industry savvy and actually work within it on a full time basis, whose work speaks for itself and you don’t mind a bit of banter…. «Picture This Photography Weekends» is for you.
Join Neil Protheroe and Rina SjardinThompson for a weekend away.
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The natural world and wildlife conservation provides endless joy and despair, beauty and devastation. I strive to advocate for our endangered species and ecosystems and through my art I explore wildlife advocacy through creative interpretation.
Photographs are just the first step in my creative process. Using Photoshop, I digitally blend and mask layers of photographs, graphics, scanned ephemera and textures, lighting and colour adjustments, and digital brushstrokes to form images that are more like a painting. Some images may involve only a couple of layers, whereas others may involved hundreds.
My art is held in private collections in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States.
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Charlotte is a photography educator, full-time professional photographer and Photoshop expert who practices
#photographyforgood by helping photographers gain skills and confidence through workshops, tuition, and mentoring.
Her day job requires her to capture a wide range of subjects and styles from covering corporate events all the way through to scientific macro but Charlie’s passion is portraiture and she has developed her own fine-art style, working with local models, makeup artists, and stylists.
Charlotte is an Ambassador for Lensbaby, was part of the 2021 Tonic Workshops for NZIPP, and is a mentor on behalf of PSNZ.
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Soulful Memories’ specialty is portraiture, the ability to capture special moments and personality of the client through photographs. The importance of the comfort a client needs is very crucial to me and the joy I feel creating Soulful Memories is priceless.
Photography helps me slow down, pay attention and observe life more closely, to see the beauty and story in simple things others pass by or take for granted. The innocent smile of a lovely baby, intertwined hands of a pair, the togetherness of families – each tell a story.
The “magic box,” as some have called my camera, continues to lead me to people and lands I have only dreamed about.
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ER Imaging Photography specialises in unique agriculture and NZ Scene photography for both personal and commercial use.
The ability to escape into New Zealand’s world-renowned natural landscapes and culture with my camera is something I have always appreciated. Privileged in having access to such a diverse range of scenery and people, my passion for capturing and sharing these stunning experiences with others has only developed. Being a selftaught freelance photographer, I have acquired my skills through practice over a period of over twelve years, passion being my core motivator. My photography reflects my personal interpretation of life, how I view both the world we live in and the people who live in it.
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A photographer and a botanical horticulturist with 20 years experience, Dave Davies established Ethno Flora to deliver the highest standards in all your garden.
Dave not only knows everything about plants and photography, but he can also help you design the landscape of your dreams.
His team has a wealth of knowledge and experience in garden maintenance, fruit tree pruning, and plant health is guaranteed to meet you and your garden’s needs.
EthnoFlora is a trustworthy and professional company that respects you and your privacy.
Started in New Zealand in 2017, Excio has grown into a global community of passionate photographers who are committed to making a positive change in the world. We help our members display, publish, showcase, share and sell their work based on our “FairShare Photography” concept. This year Excio launched its large-scale, photographer-driven image library to deliver fresh, high-quality photographs with the assurance that every photographer is fairly paid, and every customer can access affordable, authentic photography for commercial use. This unique offering is made possible by Excio’s innovative technology and payment model: Excio PhotoTokens. Our innovation motivates photographers to take and upload an abundance of images, and buyers to pay a fair price for their creative work.
At Excio we strongly advocate for responsible photography principles . We are official partners of the Nature First organisation and Sustainability Business Network. We are committed to the Tiaki Promise and supporting important local initiatives and charities.
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