Brett on March 18th, 2011

The weather report for Jane and Andrew’s big day looked promising: Sunny with late cloud. Not the absolute perfect conditions for a photographer but pretty close. Needless to say, the boffins at the Met Service were bloody wrong. It rained. Having spent a fair amount of time in the UK, Jane and Andrew had hired [...]

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Brett on August 31st, 2010

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 www.photoboothfun.co.nz

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Brett on July 27th, 2010

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 Artist: Vee Gulliver Female Model: Yasmin Bidois from Clyne Womenswear shoes: Chaos & Harmony, [...]

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Brett on June 8th, 2010

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 [...]

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Brett on October 23rd, 2009
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One of the best ways I find to challenge myself is to set personal projects, where I am the client and I try to create my vision as well as I can to the brief I have set. Usually it’s just an image I have in my head that needs to come out, but sometimes [...]

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Brett on July 19th, 2009
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Early in June I had the pleasure to work with Josie on a Sports themed shoot in my home town of Gosford, on the Central Coast of NSW in Australia. It was really quite cold and Josie handled it quite well, I kept her running around a bit and we did have to have a [...]

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Brett on June 8th, 2009
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Miss Eva Strangelove, a burlesque dancer from Wellington, joined Jaime Leigh and myself on a shoot in a very cool old apartment building in Cuba St one very rainy weekend. We raided Eva’s wardrobe and Jaime went to work her magic on the hair and make-up. The apartment building had some wonderful art-deco fixtures. After [...]

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Brett on April 20th, 2009
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Since word-of-mouth is in my experience the best form of marketing and this blog is all about me Me ME! I thought I might let you know of all the ways that you can follow my work. I have a few presences on the web, and whilst this blog is the most regularly updated I [...]

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Brett on February 19th, 2009
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When I was younger I used to watch a show called All Together Now that was about this old time rock star, Bobby Rivers played by Jon English, who ends up having no career but twin children that keep trying to pull him in to the 90′s when all he wants to do is stay [...]

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Brett on January 23rd, 2009
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Part of my trip home to Australia for the holidays was to get some more portfolio shots in the bag and to try and capture some of the Australian landscape. I did a shoot for my friends Tony and Stacy, who got married last year, up in a region called Somersby Falls which was just [...]

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