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I’m Michael, a Hawke’s Bay Wedding Photographer and Videographer. My work takes me all over the Bay and New Zealand and I love photographing people and their connection to each partners, their families, their friends, and to places. I was born in Australia but have lived in New Zealand most of my life. I grew up in South Auckland before moving to Napier, Hawke's Bay in 2014 to be a full time photographer.

I love wedding photography and videography, and weddings are mainly what I do. I also do portraits, engagement sessions, couple sessions, family sessions and maternity sessions on both photo and video. I also have a commercial photography and videography business.

If you've followed my on socials at all, you may have picked up big hearted, relaxed, fun, joke telling, quip making, artistic photographer and videographer. My social links are sprinkled on here of course. On my shoots I strive to create an environment of relaxation, trust, ease and spontaneity so that people can express themselves and express their intimacy with each other. I’ve found this approach, plus my experience working with people from all walks of life, helps even people who aren’t normally comfortable in front of a camera to relax and be their natural selves. I've been told this comes across in my work.

My wedding photography could be described as modern, film influenced, romantic, with an intimate, spontaneous, natural eye. Just recently I have tweaked my style to keep things interesting and have incorporated more of a 90s professional film stock look to my editing - think Portra and Fuji 400h looks. I'm talking cleaner, lighter, truer colour neutral edits, direct flash, shutter dragging, dutch tilts, and artistic blur here and there. However it is just building and expanding on my foundations of many years of being a photographer.

My wedding videography, my wedding films? I would describe them as a romantic, documentary, film inpired style. I include a lot of incidental audio captured on the day, a lot of little scene snippets of the day. I set the scene, provide a sense of place, to put the viewer in the centre of the wedding film they are watching. I will also incorporate moods and feelings into the edits of my wedding films to give a sense of how the day felt, not just how it looked and sounded.

Outside of work you'll often find me hanging out with friends and family, walking my dog, going to the gym, running the roads of Napier or the track at Hastings, a Parkrun, 5 or 10km running events, or going on fun adventures outdoors.