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Digital Camera magazine (UK), December 2009 issue :)

Scorching Bay Triathlon

A friend was competing in the Scorching Bay Triathlon today so I went out to offer some support and take a few pics. Steph doesn't work at Weta, but she does attend our Tuesday/Thursday circuit and boxing classes coached by Shane of Specifics Training.

Karim Sahai: Photography For Samoa Relief

I'm posting this on behalf of a friend, colleague and fellow Photographer. He is an established Travel Photographer and has been to Samoa in the recent past. In lieu of the recent earthquake he is offering to donate full proceeds of his Samoa prints to the New Zealand Red Cross, one of the groups heading relief efforts.

Karim Sahai: Less than 48 hours ago, the small island nation of Samoa was devastated by an 8.3 Richter-scale earthquake, followed by an extremely powerful tsunami. Samoa suffered heavy loss of life and saw 90% of its housing destroyed. The consequences of this tragic event will be felt for many years.

For having visited this beautiful and humble country and for having been touched by the warmth of its people, assisting Samoa is only natural. I hope you are able to help too.

In the image gallery below, you will find a small selection of photos taken in Samoa three years ago. Large format prints of these pictures are available at an affordable price. By ordering one or several prints, the full amount of your purchase will be transferred to the New Zealand Red Cross, one of the organisations spearheading the aid effort.

The Samoa gallery is here.

Los Angeles September 2009

LA pitstop en route back to New Zealand. Views from Griffith Observatory (click these two skyline images to see more detail in a slightly larger file size).

Baby G :)

So it's been a loooong while since I've dropped anything online here...partly laziness, partly being too busy. I'm got a big gap of missing photos which I'll try to add at some point, but for now I'll just put up some stuff from a recent shoot here in LA (while in town on vacation) because I love what we got and I'm still working through some of the shots.


I was VERY fortunate to work with an AMAZING Makeup Artist Stephanie Elise. Her natural looking makeup is the bomb, and all the models want to work with her, which is good for me too since she's opened a few doors for me and added some cool people into my network! All that and she's super cool, fun, and extremely helpful/generous as well.

Our first shoot was with a model she had referred me to, Lauren May...we call her "BabyG" cause she looks like a baby Giselle Bundchen :)

Portfolio Updates: Actor Ben Fransham

Last minute shoot for local Actor Ben Fransham.

...more to come...

Light Testing With Renee

I wanted to try some outdoor lighting techniques with some new gear so I asked my friend/model Renee if she'd like to help me out by sitting for me. Since she'd be my muse for the day we decided to go the extra step to make the images at least useful for her portfolio, so we went out to a couple shops in town that let me borrow stuff...thanks I Love Paris and Moochi :)

The weather didn't cooperate though so we ended up staying indoors and just played around with the gear in other setups.

...more to come...