Mutiny on the Gold Coast

After a small hiatus from costumes and photography, we're back – this time swaggering into the salt-drenched world of pirates, swordplay and sand, savvy? Capt'n Chiaki, the Pirate Witch (wench? Ha!) Nasrin and a guest appearance by potential Mutineer E make up the cast of our latest escapades. And what better place to search for treasure than at the Gold Coast's Currumbin Beach and Rockpools?

With the help of a friend standing in to hold lighting stands/reflectors (thanks, Grip!) the afternoon was a little more easy-going than some of our shoots (usually, there is just the two of us and any pictures with both of us in them involve timers/reflectors sticky-taped to trees and a hell of a lot of running between the camera and the 'X' – we've never had any luck with remote controls!). Of course, the rather graphic cuts on Ona's face did lead to a few concerned queries as we walked to our first location and the (un)helpful army of children out enjoying their Sunday afternoon nearly performed an act of mutiny themselves in their attempts to pirate away Capt'n Chiaki's sword. Finally, the reflector was an unfortunate casualty late in the afternoon – it was **thisclose** to being swept out to sea by a particularly energetic wave.

Hopefully you'll enjoy using these photos as much as we enjoy creating them – as always; we look forward to seeing what comes out of it! In fact, in light of our habit of being notoriously terrible at replying to stock usage related queries in a timely fashion, we have finally created some Stock Usage Guidelines. If you've used our stock before – do not fret; the guidelines are exactly the same as they've always been – they're just a little easier to find now, in the sense that I will be putting a link to them on each new upload instead of replying to people's stock usage queries in the requests…

As a side note; I have it on good authority that a third (fourth???) Star Trek shoot should be up in the next few weeks – with AU!Kirk and a Blue Shirt in the Brisbane Parklands landing party. Additionally, a Lothlorian inspired Lord of the Rings shoot (backdrop the ever-inspiring Mt Cootha Gardens) in the same vein as our Rohan and Arwen shoots should be up soon as well.  

Have fun!

Chiaki (& Nasrin)