We want YOU to feel beautiful and to be treated to a fun afternoon out with your favourite girls - be it with your best friends, your sisters, your mother, different generations in your family, your old school friends - anyone!

Kimberley Cheyne Photography and Christal Allpress Makeup Artist are going to give four girls an afternoon of fun, friends, food and frivolity! All you need to do to enter is head to my facebook page, tag yourself in a competition image, and sit back and wait!

The winners will receive the whole shebang - you will be made-over with natural looking make-up by Christal, given pretty cupcakes & scrummy treats to eat, fancy drinks to share, a goodie bag of girlie treats to take home... and then you get the opportunity to have these precious memories captured in a fun and relaxed location-based photo shoot with Kimberley! Each girl will also receive a CD of images, and four professional prints!

If you are male and want to win this competition as a gift for your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, or friend.... go on, tag yourself too! One lucky tagger will be drawn by random selection on Monday the 15th of August, and they will get to choose 3 friends. (Pssst...tell all your friends to enter too and make sure you are extra nice to them - bribery may help you get in on this too!).

Winner will be notified via facebook and must get in contact with us within 4 days to claim the prize, or it will be redrawn. The afternoon will take place on either the 3rd, 10th, or 24th of September 2011, and about 4 hours will need to be allowed. Must be within the Dunedin City boundaries (any travel expenses beyond this must be covered by the recipients).

One entry per person please.

If you don't manage to win this competition, but think this would be a great idea for you and your girls, please get in touch... we want to offer this awesome package to anyone - because everyone deserves to eat cupcakes, feel gorgeous and have beautiful photographs of themselves!! Please enquire directly with Kimberley (photography@kimberleychey​ne.co.nz) for our special introductory prices!

XOXO

I have photo blocks galore, and I need to make space in my office for new and exciting things! So....

These pieces of art are perfect as gifts, or for your own home! And now, until stocks run out, they are up to 40% off their normal prices! They can also be posted nationally and internationally if required.

There are two options - you can either:

• Choose your favourite image from my Landscapes & Nature page, or my Dunedin page, and pick a suitable block size from the list below - easy as pie! Or,
  
• If you have been a client of mine, and would like a photo from your session on a block mount, you can do that too!

Sizes are as stocked - some sizes are very limited, so it will be first in first served!

Please email me at photography@kimberleycheyne.co.nz with your photo choice (order name is at the bottom of each photo on the landscape pages), and I can mount it to the block size you choose!

There are also a select few already mounted blocks on sale (for even cheaper!) on my Kimberley Cheyne Photography facebook page - check out my Block Sale photo album to find them!

Have a happy day everyone :)

In May I had the opportunity to head to Queenstown for a seminar run by one of the worlds leading wedding and fashion photographers - New York's Heather Waraksa! It was an amazing and inspiring day, run by The Image College. They do a fantastic job of helping little old South Island photographers like me keep up with what is happening in the big wide world of wedding photography!

It was definitely worth the very early morning drive over there. I left at 5am, and sung really loudly to keep myself awake. I was met there by my very good friend from Heather Ellis Photography, and we became friends with the other handful of photographers there too!

The afternoon allowed us some time for a model shoot, which was awesome, and very, very different. I have only just managed to have a peek at what I shot, so thought I would share a few, because they are unique and fun. Please note that I take absolutely no credit for the ideas, or the setting up of these shots! We all stood back and watched while she taught us some tips and tricks, and then we photographed them! Enjoy xx

Model: Kimberley (Queenstown)
Location: Copthorne Hotel, Queenstown
Dresses: Provided by The Image College
Photo Set-up: Heather Waraksa

It is a beautiful day outside, and I am inside at my computer working... sigh! But I love my job, and I did just have a 5 minute break in the sun to eat brownie, so you will hear no complaining from me! Life is gooood.

Another good thing is that our new gift vouchers arrived this week! And they look great. So this serves as a reminder that you can give the gift of photography to someone you love, someone who has a special occasion coming up, someone you just think deserves it, or someone who is just incredibly hard to buy a gift for. Everyone loves to look back on beautiful photographs to remember good times or important moments in their life, and I love to capture them!

Vouchers can be purchased for any type of shoot package, or you can give a voucher of any value, to be put towards prints choices. A perfect idea is to go in with other friends for engagement or wedding presents, baby shower presents, birthday presents, and the like.

And that is it! That is what photography is about - giving people the opportunity to have beautiful and fun photographs of themselves - something to be proud of, display on their wall, and feel good about. Please contact me if you (or a group of people) would like to give somebody this opportunity!

Now go and enjoy the sunshine, and have a very happy day! xoxo

I have been searching through older photos, finding photos of me and Liam for wedding bits and pieces (yes... just over 2 months now! Wahoo!), and I found some fun summery photos of the two months I spent working in Australia this time last year. I can't believe how quickly this year has gone... and how much has been packed into the past 12 months for me! It gives me shivers of excitement. Thought I would share just two photos with you, purely so you can get excited that summer is on its way!

Despite my addiction to social networking, I was reluctant to put my business on facebook. I was scared it would mean that people would no longer visit my pretty website. But I figured surely 80% of New Zealanders use facebook, so, I did it... and now I am not only addicted to flicking between my personal home page and profile page to see if anything has changed in the last 2 seconds, I have a third page too!

So... if you would like to follow my photography work on facebook and get updates as to when new blogs have been put up on this site, then please 'like' my page at: