The Darwin wet season can be a tricky time of year to organise anything out doors. The start of it especially from any time in October onwards can be quite unpredictable and you have that false sense of security imagining fine sunny days left over from the half year of complete dry season weather.

Post storm photo shoot with Stevie Dee.  Darwin, Australia

I got lucky with the recent filming of the latest hit music video to come out of Darwin "Doesn't Matter Anyway" where I actually got two consecutive days of good sunshine to complete all the scenes we had storyboarded.

I should probably say VERY lucky.  The day before and the day after had heavy showers, I must have had some good karma following me about, or the band did, who knows.

More often than not though, during the unpredictable start of the season, what happened below is more likely combined with Murphy's law of 'whatever shit will happen to make things difficult WILL happen' this crazy looking storm rolled in across the Darwin water front area just 5 minute before the start of a fashion shoot I was doing for new fun city boutique Blonde Bommshell was due to begin.  So it was off for an hour and a half of drinks at a nearby venue till the rain had past.

Storms roll across the sky just minutes before our shoot was to start. Panorama view from Convention Centre.

Being late afternoon, sunlight time was at a premium so we just had to make do with overcast skies and the power of the Ranger RX flash unit to warm things up ( thank you Elinchrom by the way, your products are wonderful ) but we still got some good shots which the boutique was very happy with, and so was I.  Check out the samples of the beautiful ladies I worked with that day below.

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