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Third dawn shoot this week

Third dawn shoot this week

Means occasionally having doubts re. one’s career choice. Being up at 4am for the weather check (all clear today), on the road at 4:30 isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Upside is eating out for brekky twice this week, today we’re at Sayers in Leederville. Yum.

Black Swan 2011 Season Programme

Black Swan 2011 Season Programme

The funnest shoot I’ve done all year is how I’ve been characterising the work we’ve just finished for Black Swan State Theatre Company. The whole thing was a gas from start to finish. I really loved working with Geoff Bickford and Esther Lee from Dessein again and meeting new clients Nancy and Kate from Black…

Shoot with James Morrison wrapped

Shoot with James Morrison wrapped

We sacked the feeble smoke machine and bought up all the local supplies of talcum powder. Assistant du jour Michael Ziebarth hit it with the iPhone and a spot o’ the old tilt/shift. This shoot was actually wrapped a couple of weeks ago but trumpeter James Morrison’s role in Boundary Street, one of Black Swan’s 2011…

Museums of Rural Tasmania

Museums of Rural Tasmania

We went to Tasmania not so long ago. Tasmania has a justifiably good reputation for it’s wilderness, well for the bits they’re not busy chopping down. Rocky gorges, remote windswept mountain tops, the outdoors in it’s untamed, chaotic and breathtaking glory. You’ve already seen those pictures though. What has been overlooked in the years since…

On the black art of wine bottle photography

On the black art of wine bottle photography

Reflective objects. Some photographers love them. Some love them a little less.Every bottle is a lens and a mirror all at once. Photographing lenses and mirrors comes with its own set of special challenges. Transmissive reflective objects really sort the sheep from the goats! Reflections of the photographer’s workspace, whether that be the studio or…

200km east of Derby

200km east of Derby

supporting half a dozen fashion journalists on a Tiffany and Co sponsored tour of the Kimberley Diamond Mine. iPhone Plastic Bullet.

Remember the misty morning we had a couple of weeks ago?

Remember the misty morning we had a couple of weeks ago?

Mist in Perth is pretty rare. I think it’s been two years since we had one of these days. The stillness and the diffuse light are un-Perthlike, for a few hours it feels like living in another country

Afternoon shoot at Zekka

Afternoon shoot at Zekka

We reckon it’s one of the best retail interiors in Perth, a beautifully executed balancing act; some corners feel as though the tradies have just downed tools for smoko (there’s no sense that they’re coming back though). The shoe and bag rooms have a strangely timeless private museum vibe, you know, the sort of private…

What is environmental portraiture?

What is environmental portraiture?

We’ll forgive you for imagining it might relate to portraits made exclusively in our dwindling, shrinking, evaporating natural environment. Who knows when the term Environmental Portraiture was coined? Not us! All that seems certain is that it is likely to have occurred prior to the rise of the environment in our collective green consciousness. The…

Moombaki Wines

Moombaki Wines

The pace of life in cool climate wine country always seems a little more relaxed than that of their cousins on the coast. The merits of relaxed briefs are open for debate but amongst friends we feel it is only to be encouraged. David and Melissa Boughey at Moombaki Wines were introduced to us by…

Amana Living

Amana Living

Adrian’s shoot supporting a rebranding campaign being undertaken by Braincells for Amana Living (formerly Anglican Homes) needed a photographer who could be sensitive to the needs of an aged care facility whilst delivering the creative goods. Amana is a care and service provider for people living the second half of life. As a part of…

Jo Sharp Knitwear

Jo Sharp Knitwear

Jo Sharp is one of the world’s most recognised knitwear designers, selling knitwear pattern books and yarns in three continents and two hemispheres, and she’s based right here in Freo! We’ve shot half a dozen books for Jo over the pasat couple of years. Her latest ‘Eclectic’ has been an international hit with knitters so…

Forrest Chase

Forrest Chase

  Forrest Chase, one of Perth’s biggest retail shopping malls, is home to Myer, as well as 40 other fashion and lifestyle stores. With latest fashions and accessories, unique specialty stores and fab food outlets, Forrest Chase was looking to promote itself as providing the ultimate shopping experience in the heart of the City of…

SoDAA – Bremer Bay House

SoDAA – Bremer Bay House

We’re horizon snobs here at Acorn Photo. It’s just that they’re not all created equal. Why the remote south coast of Western Australia should be blessed with a disproportionately large number of them is beyond us all though. We’re not alone in recognising it either. There’s a queue forming somewhere outside Albany to get a…

Qantas

Qantas

    The old quarter of Geraldton at first blush appears to have been mostly built in the era of the Sandman, fondue parties and Sherbet (Howzat!). The wind blows all winter from the west and all summer from the east – “a mecca for windsurfers” claims the tourist bureau site hopefully. Things are changing…

Willie Creek Pearls

Willie Creek Pearls

Phil McVey of M3 Design was undertaking a major rebranding project for Broome based Willie Creek Pearls. As with all things Broome, tourism plays a major part in WCP’s operation; apart from farming Australian south sea cultured pearls and selling a range of pearl jewellery from 5 stores, they run a very busy tour schedule…

Australia Post

Australia Post

The need for corporate image libraries with flexible usage rights is growing. Acorn Photo bid for the opportunity to create 40 new images for Australia Post through their Small to Medium Enterprise Section’s advertising agency, 303. Long time collaborator and all-round sensible person Liz Carberry was hauled in to negotiate the 2-3 year talent buyouts…

Joe Chindarsi Winter Cottage Bridgetown

Joe Chindarsi Winter Cottage Bridgetown

Bridgetown equals Hometown for Robert; yep, born on a farm and still combing the hay out of his hair. The place has been a magnet for tree-changers since forever and the standard of sustainable architecture has come along a bit since the seventies let me tell you. Perth based architect Joe Chindarsi and his Grandfather…