Sunshine is Scott/pics and Melissa/plans – a husband/wife, Aussie/kiwi team. We’re not young hipsters or coffee snobs and if Scott still had a beard it would have some silver fox vibes. Over the years we’ve done plenty of interesting things and now have a 12 year old who we hope does not do some of those things. She’s somehow turned out to be way more interesting and cooler than both of us and is pretty handy with a camera too (that’s her in the pic above). We have three scruffy dogs, still like each other (even after 15 years of marriage) and love what we do, so life is good.
Scott is the Sunshine photographer and videographer. He’s also a total camera geek. His video career started as a fresh and shiny young skydiver and camera-op, a career that took him all over the world before deciding New Zealand was home. After a few years working in tourism, then videoing weddings large and small (and winning a few pretty fancy awards along the way), he discovered the joys of still photography. So now he gets to fly around in helicopters to unbelievable locations, meet interesting new people, take incredible photos and call it a job. All the adjectives.
Melissa is the Sunshine introvert so is happy doing the behind the scenes stuff – emails, organising everyone (including Scott) and then post-production and editing. She’s also a qualified designer and artist and runs our other business at the same time – a gallery and design store in our home town a little south of Queenstown. It doubles as the Sunshine office, just one surrounded by lots of beautiful NZ art!
We work with a small, hand-picked group of vendors who we absolutely love (and have been working with some of them for over 13 years now). Not only are they the best in Queenstown, they’re all good humans who will look after you well (and don’t mind a bit of a laugh too).
“Wow!!! From start to finish, what an incredibly seamless process you operate!! The photos are amazing thank you so so much!! Scott has done a fantastic job of capturing us perfectly (but a lot more glam than usual of course!!) we both aren’t the most comfortable in front of the camera but you can’t tell at all! There is no doubt we will have a hard time picking favourites. Melissa you really took all the stress away from the entire day organising it and then re organising it 🙂and we would both do it again a thousand times over through you guys with no changes. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for everything.” – Amber and Hayden
