A September of landscapes, creative lives and connections, from the Home of Compassion to Te Papa Travelling with a friend: photographing beauty and connecting In my last post, I wrote that August was awesome and September would offer even more. Part of that story began on the road with my friend and fellow photographer James Stonely. We travelled south through winter landscapes to create new work for my 2027 calendar and for Jame's brilliant truestock images. There were mou

In August I attended the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers (NZIPP) conference and IRIS awards live judging event. If you want to see what the judging is like you can watch recordings on YouTube here and here, and here. As a seasoned conference attendee and presenter through my energy consultant career, I was expecting it to be interesting but just like every other conference...a bit boring at times... :-) How wrong I was: I was engaged, entertained, infor