Photo by Frank Gasteiger

Archive for category Web-Design

Date: May 4th, 2011
Cate: Architecture, Commercial, Web-Design

APHomes website launched

The APHomes website launched today. Andrew & Michelle Pope, the owners of APHomes, have been building quality homes in Marlborough for over 20 years. They are proud to use 100% local suppliers and contractors and of course they decided to assign a local photographer to create magazine style photos for their advertising material.

We have been working with Andrew and Michelle for about a year and they love the images we produce. Sometimes the jobs have a very tight deadline of only a few hours until the images have to be delivered.
We work around around the builder who do the last bits and pieces, take some photos at dusk and do the post-production over night to deliver the images the next morning to the printer. And we never ever missed a deadline.

See some sample images below and check out the APHomes website for more photos and their houses and land packages and also check out their web developer Marc Newport and his stunning WordPress powered web-design.

APHomes - 6 Banksia Place

Date: November 9th, 2009
Cate: Photo News, Web-Design, Wine

Churton Wines

For more than two years I am shooting for Churton Wines on a regular basis. Churton, a biodynamic Marlborough vineyard and winery producing limited volumes of high quality Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir is owned and operated by Sam and Mandy Weaver.

Frequent photo sessions as for Churton has many advantages.

- We are able to capture images during the whole year of a wine-making cycle.

- The website is up-to-date with high quality professional images and returning visitor won’t get bored with outdated and static content.

- The photo-stock library grows steadily and has a fresh supply for e.g. magazines, brochures, press-releases.

- Frequent photography takes off the pressure to suddenly find the right image for an unplanned event.

- Having several smaller photo shootings instead of one big session keeps costs under control.

www.churton-wines.co.nz

Date: May 14th, 2009
Cate: Accommodation, Photo News, Web-Design

Revamping a 5-star website

In December last year, Heidi and Werner Pluss of the 5-star rated luxury bed and breakfast The Peppertree in Blenheim contacted me to take some photos of the gardens and orchard surrounding the Peppertree. They were very happy with the results and asked if I would take photos of the rooms too. denise
I happily agreed because with a background of almost 10 years interior advertising photography in Germany I was pretty sure I could deliver the quality Heidi and Werner require. 

The Peppertree is owned and managed by this lovely couple from Switzerland. They have rebuild and styled the gracious Edwardian Villa to highest quality and treat guests with exquisite charm and hospitality.  But they also expect the same love to detail and perfection from everyone who works for them.

For the web-design Robert Boren got involved.
Robert is the man who does the work for love of it. A genius with the code and retired enjoying the New Zealand lifestyle, he spent endless hours to battle problems like new releases of IE8 and cross-platform and browser compatibility.
We met at least once a week to discuss the design and whether additional photos were needed to deliver a complete package. By keeping the Peppertree’s colour scheme, Robert redesigned the site with fresh and contemporary flair and features like quick loading movie-style slide shows. See for yourself and visit The Peppertree website.

Date: May 10th, 2009
Cate: Virtual Tour, Web-Design

G-raff.co.nz / They build websites!

Last weekend I looked at the new web-site of the Garin College where my children study.  I really liked the design, scrolled down to the footer and there is a link. Site by G-raff. Never heard of these guys… so I checked out the G-raff web-site and was blown away by the cool stuff they do.
World class web design by a very talented group of artists, designers, animators and copywriters who are actually based in different places and even different time zones. It shows again that the world is a village.

I wrote an email to Neil Macneil, who is one of the G-raff boys and based in the Motueka area, telling him how much I like the work they do and I hope we could do a project together and a short time later he replied…

“Hi Frank!
Thanks for your email. We like the stuff you do too!
But to be honest, that is a bit of an understatement… we LOVE the stuff you do.
A fabulous portfolio, simply stunning, one of the best we’ve seen in a long, long time. Where have you been hiding ?!
Loved your VR Panoramas – I dabbled in QTVR for a few years, but your work leaves mine for dead! ”
Neil Macneil, G-raff

Thanks Neil, one of the nicest comments I’ve received in a long, long time.