Food, I love it. I am actually addicted to it. I display all the traits of an addict: I eat alone, I eat when I’m emotional, it’s the first thing I think about in the morning, I plan my day around it, and sometimes I even lie about it! I have friends who eat only to survive, they...

I recently had the pleasure of working with a great NZ company, Red Vespa.  They are one of New Zealand’s leading business analyst companies and when I met them they were in the middle of a huge revamp of their website. The brief was: Capture their staff with an open, friendly but...

I’ve got to say, not being a native to New Zealand, that I’ve got enormous pride in this adopted country of mine. Not only is it one of the most stunning places I’ve been but the people are just amazing. So friendly, welcoming and smart. Check out these inspiring...

I’ve been working with Jen from Eloquence World Design recently and one of the jobs I’ve had has been with one of New Zealand’s up and coming Opera stars, Bryony Williams. The shoot was for her promotional material and website so we wanted to give her a range of looks to...

So I just spent a bit of time updating the look of the blog and it took me on a little trip down memory lane. How often does one look back over their posts? I thought I would link some here as a bit of a “best of” for the past few years. My first front page photo Swimwear &...

      Photography: Brett Stanley-Photographer Stylist: Roc Travers Make up: Olivia Wild Model: Petrice...

So, I had a total Dexter Morgan moment yesterday as I was setting up for some corporate shots in an empty Auckland office space. I was traveling light so didn’t have my white paper backdrop with me, but used white plastic drop sheeting instead. The rustle and rip of plastic and gaff...

I’ve been a fan of The Melvins since the late 90′s when a friend introduced me to their album Stag after a gig one night. It blew me away with it’s distorted, dissident but yet highly melodic tunes and I knew I was going out the next day to buy the CD (This is before the...

Our sister business Pretty Pictures specialises in Pinup, Burlesque and Vintage photography and one of the things we like to do is put on a day every now and then that focuses on just one style. We have previously put together Pin up photography days but our most recent one was Burlesque,...

Just a short post to let you know that our photo booth fun blog now, just like Snow White, has a new home and we will be updating it more regularly over at...

Just a little video for this Tuesday afternoon: We put these short video’s together for our clients and they just love them, great track by the Shout Out Louds as well. View more about our photo booths at...

Our final collection for the day was Alana Bishop - “Stretch Me”, modelled by Lauren Spring. Thanks to Melody from Designer Direction for organising everything! Shoot Credits Photographer: Brett Stanley Stylist: Jason Tapuai-Kuka Hair Stylist: Richard Kavanagh Makeup...

Our second collection to shoot was Haylee Barry - “Tu Meke”, modelled by Yasmin Bidois. Haylee also made it through to the finals of the FashionTV Online Designer Awards. Shoot Credits Photographer: Brett Stanley Stylist: Jason Tapuai-Kuka Hair Stylist: Richard Kavanagh Makeup...

I recently had the pleasure of working with the talented Richard Kavanagh, Vee Gulliver, Jason Tapuai-Kuka, and 3 great models at Kingsize Studios, Auckland in a quick fire fashion shoot for the Designer Direction “Discovered” competition. We had 3 collections to shoot and the...

New Zealand magazine Pulp have a photography competition every year that is open to anyone and attracts some great talent, I was hoping to be one of those lucky people this year. Along with my partner Jaime Leigh, our two awesome models Lauren and Nicola, and some MASSIVE woolly socks we threw...

It’s been a time of change for me in the last few weeks, I moved out of the studio I had been renting for the past 9 months and the house I’ve been living in for over 2 years. I miss the studio and it was no easy decision to move on but after some soul searching and some financial...

Ok, so it’s a bad pun but a serious issue, reflections are hard to control especially on rounded objects such as wedding rings. I’m all for leaving my mark on my photographs, but being in them is not what I had in mind. Today’s lesson: Always check your images for...

One of the main reasons I fell in love with my studio was the huge ceiling space. It was vaulted,  had exposed beams and the monkey in me just wanted to build a cubby house up there. When I had the lamps on, the rafters would throw all kinds of great shadows around and turned it into such a...