Here a few landscape only shots!
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Here the next one from our weekend adventure, with the Fashion Collaborate!
My model: Natalie
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Those were taken in Brooklyn, Wellington the other day.
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Another tick on my Bucket list, Patuna Chasm!
I wanted to go there since years, yesterday I managed. # photographers, 3 models, 3 hours of wading and stumbling through icy water - I can tell you it was really fun. This is some truly amazing landscape.
Below you find the first images so far. All in all I shot some 1100... So there will be a few more!
My model: Natalie
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Those are from a walk around Brooklyn, Wellington...
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Another one from recent storms - Rolling towards Owhiro Bay...
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Those two shots were taken last Sunday, about 10 minutes and 500 meters apart. It depends a lot on what you focus on!
Out there, however, both spots were equal miserable, wet and cold, just my type of weather.
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To be honest, I didn't see it right away. But now I can't un-see it...
Who else sees a horse in those waves?
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So, last Saturday was the fundraiser art auction at Lyall Bay Surf Life Saving Club, to raise money for the completion of their club house. 
I donated one of my panoramas, overlooking the bay during an approaching storm.
"Firestorm", mounted canvas 150 by 50 cm, is one of my limited edition prints. Limited to 12, and this one is the third one sold so far. 
The auction exceeded my wildest expectations. The print was sold for NZ$ 3000.
I hope this and the other items help the club to complete their club house. They do really important work, socially as well as keeping people safe on the beach and in the water.
This image is stitched from 12 images, each of which is also a HDR image of 3 different exposures - makes actual 36 images altogether.
Regular price is NZ$ 1100 by the way, 9 are left.
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Last Friday, on Wellington South Coast.
There wasn't much wind on, those bays are sheltered from the North, still I got something to shoot!
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Happy Halloween everyone.
Here some of my darker portraits...
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I just sold the second one of this limited edition panorama. This one is going to Marseille, France!
This image is limited to 3 prints in total, so a last one is still available!
This one sold for $1800, which resembles a 150 x 50 cm canvas print. The price might vary with larger sizes or different media - I wouldn't recommend to print it smaller due to detail. It should print easily double the size if needed!
My client, however, will get their print on Ilford Photorag 310gsm, because they print in their location. I use this paper myself, because it brings out incredible detail.

About the image itself:
Multi-row panorama, stitched from 120 individual photos. Horizontal view is full 360 degree, vertical ca. 160 degree. Roughly 208 Megapixel.
Monochrome is an unusual choice for a sunset, but I thought it works well on this one. The perspective is also unusual, the setting sun being split up to the left and right edge of the image.
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No beginning, no end, just floating.
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The image I posted alongside my rant yesterday reminded me, there must have been some image I actually shot in this setup. And here we go, this is one of the images taken with this setup. Posting those side by side.
I think I need to do more behind the scenes shots again, they can be as interesting as the actual shot...
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​Rant time again...
There are now companies jumping up who claim to make things easier for clients (in my case, for clients looking for a photographer).
They do have a database of photographers, right. And they are usually free for potential clients, right. 
What is under the bonnet, however, is sometimes rather hefty fees on the photographer's end of the picture.
One company (I leave out the name, being nice), asks the photographer to buy a packet of credits. And you can only buy them in packs ($240 plus GST). You use up a certain amount of credits to answer to a lead you get from this company, regardless if this lead is actually genuine, if the client has already hired someone or if you just want to tell them you can't do this job. 
Amount of credit varies with lead.
You run out of credits, you need to buy a new pack.
Their only guarantee is a statistic that says you get hired at least once in 5 leads.
They are also, helpful enough (being sarcastic), suggesting a price for my work... Without knowing the slightest bit of what I actually do.
I did the math behind this business model. I found out, that in a 1 to 5 risk scenario, those 5 leads cost me about the amount I earn in the one shooting I get out of this.
The only way to cope with such expenses would be to adjust prices to their system, which then hits, of course, the client.
Sorry, that's not a system I would like to use.
I prefer to work for myself, not wanting to feed other people who just look for opportunities to squeeze themselves between client and business, leaving the actual work and the full risk to the business and offer a ridiculous minimum of actual service.
Please, people, if you need a photographer (or any other business), look them up on Facebook, Yellow Pages etc. Don't fall for those "easy fits all" agencies - Because the only ones who really get something of it are them!