Music

  Pianist, vocalist & composer Sarah McKenzie received an Aria Award nomination last year, at age 23, for her first album. Pretty incredible huh?   I joined Sarah & her band in Melbourne's Sing Sing studio on their final day of recording for her second album. Here's a little sneak peak of what went on, between recording, jamming, and laughs with Sarah, her band & producer Chong Lim.   Between shooting stills, I also tinkered around with some moving images... but more about that later...                  


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  Nashville based musician Butterfly Boucher was in Australia for a few shows in Melbourne & Sydney recently.   While she was here with manager Dawson Wells, she snuck in the filming of her latest music video for new single "5678" at Atticus Media studio in Collingwood. I was behind the scenes shooting second camera for the filmclip... but I snuck in some stills too...              


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  The creative brief for this shoot for Melbourne 3 piece cabaret act Champagne Serenade evolved from a much bigger & wilder idea which I'm sure we'll get to down the track.   Let me first say, these girls have VOICES! Wow. I only got a sneak peak of one of their songs as we were preparing for the shoot, but my bet is that they'd be a hit at any event.   So back to the photo shoot. The idea was to work with the name and make it feel like the girls were in champagne (not realistically). So we went with a gold velvet background, a bubble machine & a super cool...


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