I'm sure a lot of the ladies remember Matt from the 2013 series of Big Brother, I was lucky enough to meet up with him a few day's after being evicted, for a promotion we had organised at Love Nightclub, It wasn't ideal shooting in a room no much bigger then your average toilet but you make do with what conditions you have. Since the new series of big brother will be starting soon has anyone actually wondered what ever happened to those from previous big brother series ?

          I have spoken to matt a few times since his exit from the house and he pretty much wen t back to his old life on the sunshine coast with his girlfriend and continued his electrical apprenticeship.

Lets see what this years big brother will produce and hopefully i will once again get to shoot a few of them when they exit, photographically of course :)

      

I received an email approximately 1 week ago from a magazine that I have submitted work to in the past and have had published asking me if i would submit some more work to them for an upcoming venture they are doing as part of their current magazine.
Now i was absolutely flattered and thrilled to be asked. i was also published in a recent tattoo magazine called The Inked Boys (cover below) the inked boys facebook page has got some more images from the magazine and i will be doing magazine submissions soon to this magazine also 

I will be shooting a tattoo grunge theme with 1 male and 1 female well toned and tattoo covered models. so i put out the call and i was genuinely shocked with the response i had received. the images of people with tattoos were amazing but the impressive thing was the detail in some of these pieces was spectacular. but i found my models and a location plus with an amazing MUA on board its looking like a great shoot

Myself i do have a few tattoos but nothing like what i have seen, however i find myself looking at new designs and i start thinking about tattoos that i would like to get and i start playing around with designs. its funny though as much as i would like to get a large tattoo i can never bring myself to do it  but i think its because I'm yet to find a design that will fit me.

I look forward to being able to share this upcoming shoot with everyone and would love to get some feedback if you wish to contact us about magazine submissions please feel free to contact us to discuss options we may be able to assist you with.

for a lot of the Gold Coast Ladies the best day ever is a day at Gold Coast Turf Club  with a Group of their friends.  it feels ever so grown up and sophisticated to be going to the races but most of all, a girls day out was always the best.

looking for an outfit. spending endless weekends in department stores, trying on dresses and fascinators until you found the perfect outfit. well this is how i seen it listening to to all the girls at a recent shoot I had. was great to see so many girl's just having a great time together and all dolled up turning a lot of heads in the mean time 

I guess it help to have an excuse a birthday party perhaps? this is what was happening in the image about Rachel ( back row third from the left) had just turned 21,... 21, geez for me that was 12 yrs ago :/ now i feel old, ok moving on, with this party they were given the star treatment all access nothing was out of reach from Private air conditioned corporate boxes, going down to the gates whilst they loaded the horses in, being there with the winning jockey for the official images  having full access to the winners lounge and lets not forget having a race named after you. was such an amazing thing to witness and best of all i got to go for the ride and capture all this as it was happening.

I recommend everyone go to the races at least once get all dressed up, take a bunch of friends have a few to many drinks and enjoy your self, even though i was the hired help i can tell you I had an absolute blast and i cant wait to do it again and take my own group of friend down to the gold coast turf club.

So as the old saying goes "onwards and upwards" is very fitting for phocus photography at the moment with our current studio in the process of relocating, its almost been a yr at our current location in southport and in that time there has been some funny moments, from pyramid building with a bunch of crazy models to cake smash photo shoots with little people. then we have had our moments of utter disbelief of some of the amazing images that have been produced.

I guess for us now is to prepare ourselves for our next chapter, our new studio will be hard going with alot of building to take place. with professional infinity walls being put in which will allow professional photoshoots of cars and even tvc options, overhead lighting rigs, make up stations and change rooms being built, all this before we even start on set and background builds.

so for all those involved over the last year i say thanks for all the laughs we had here and i cant wait to see what we all come up with at the new studio. keep an eye out as i will be posting as things progress to keep everyone updated with the current status of our new studio. :)