One of our lovely couples, Pepita and Ben were featured on a fabulous wedding website called Pre Owned Wedding Dresses. There’s heaps of wedding-style eye candy on this site – well worth a look…

We are looking for someone to join our small team in a post-production and editing role.  EXCITING!!

The position is for a minimum of 30 hours/week for a period of 6 months beginning in October, although there is the potential for further employment beyond this fixed term for the right person.

We are advertising both nationally and locally, and so far the response has been great.  We are asking those interested in the job to fill out our application form and return a hard copy to us so that we can assess all the applications together.  We will then conduct some face to face interviews mid September, with the successful applicant beginning work on the 3rd October this year.

If you are the right person for this exciting opportunity working within a small and highly successful wedding and portrait studio on Waiheke Island, one of the most beautiful places in New Zealand, please email Emma for a job application form.  Applications close on the 9th September.

I have been working on my new website for a wee while and am REALLY pleased to finally have it up online.  It’s quite a different look from the last one and has all new images on it as well as facebook and twitter links, so feel free to click through and “like’ my ‘Emma Hughes Photography’ page if you are a facebook-er.

The new site has loads of lovely wedding photos, as well as heaps of cute children’s photos, baby photography, pregnancy shoots, family portraits, couples photos, boudoir and body shots and of course a whole lot of individual portraits (never really know what to call these – ‘adult portraits’ just sounds kinda wrong!).

A new portfolio section we added this time around is a called ‘generations’ – these are a selection of the multi family portraits of extended family that we often do at Christmas and other holidays when everyone is all gathered together.  Waiheke is the perfect location for these extended family portraits and they are always really special, involving everyone from the smallest babies through to the great grandmothers.

Check out the new site HERE

I had the pleasure of photographing the very lovely Green Party candidate Denise Roche a few weeks ago in the studio.   She was needing a photo to be used in her campaign for Auckland Central, with the chosen image destined to be put on the side of a car.  Cool!

We did a few different looks in the studio including some shots with our new … ahem… ‘wind machine’. 

[photo showing Denise's partner Jon doing an excellent job of operating said wind machine... very technical!]

And the end result…

Thanks to Denise’s friend Michelle Benson for sending through the pic.

During the summer, Patricia and Chris’ fabulous Onetangi Beach wedding was featured in the My Weddings mag.  My Weddings now has a digital edition available online and is a great read when you are planning your wedding day, with lots of readers weddings and real kiwi advice & info including an regular floral contribution by Virginia Thompson from Waiheke Flower Gallery.  You can check out the winter edition HERE

I was pretty chuffed to find out that one of my images made it to the Top 30 in this years Auckland Photo Day.  Part of June’s Auckland Festival of Photography, the photo day is a designated 24 hours in which Auckland’s photographers capture their city and all it means to them.  My shot of my gorgeous daughter Jessie leaping over a little beach stream was selected from over 1350 entries… choice!

All the winning photos can be viewed HERE