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Ever since I left full time work in the 90’s to raise a family, I have had businesses of my own.  From selling Avon to Freelance Writing, making crafts to sell, doing print on demand drop shipping of my art on products you can wear and use, which I am still currently doing, and having…

2023 has been a huge year as always for me, with lots of different things happening both personally and in business. Early on in the year I had a painful weekend suffering kidney stones.  That put me in hospital for a couple of days vomiting and out of action with an operation to fix the…

Social media is never going to go away. Nobody will ever say, “That was a dumb idea”.  It’s just going to become more and more a part of our lives.  Not just as a consumer but also as a content creator and a source of income for many.  We use it to connect with friends…

2022 was huge!  It went really fast and I packed a lot in.  I had two trips to New Zealand to deal with family matters and 27 days in Europe seeing the sights.  We did 11 cities in 7 countries over the 27 days.  I shot a lot of video and taught myself the art…

  Location Location Location as they say It’s amazing how many different looks you can get from one good location.  The secret is to isolate and show only what you want your viewer to see. Here’s some examples.  All taken in the same place but turning around and moving here and here can produce many…

2019 was another very busy year for my photography.  Lots of fun and variety.  I shot 3 awesome weddings, did 9 family shoots, shot 5 models sessions with approx 8 – 10 models each session, covered 4 events including a charity event and another fundraiser.  I attended 2 photography workshops to learn new things, did…

Sometimes life throws you curve balls and you just have to catch them. After our great weekend away in our new Teardrop Camper trailer we built recently, only 3 weeks later, we have found ourselves in Melbourne for a few weeks doing some work retraining. It was a huge rush and mammoth effort of building…

Been another great year for me photography wise. I’ve photographed 3 weddings, 21 portrait jobs, worked with dozens of models, have given presentations and judgings at many photography clubs and chased heaps of buses with advertising on them. With the Santa Beach Photos team I helped to shoot 160 groups of people this year. I…

Photos are precious.  Capturing history and the humans that pass through it. If your house is on fire, you don’t rush to grab your spatula from the kitchen drawer, you look for your photos, your negatives, photo albums, framed prints on the walls, canvases, hard drives, USB’s, wedding albums and photo books.  Whatever way you…

It’s been a pretty fun and varied year for me in 2014.  Did a lot of my usual types of business photography – family portrait sessions, wedding, school formals, commercial jobs for business people, covering sporting events, shooting psychologists for their profile photos and covering events like parties, plus a few unusual things. One of the…