Karolina Ferbei

One of my favourite locations. Giant Pohutukawa tree - native New Zealand tree. This is located in a heart of our town, the vibrant city centre is just a few blocks away. This photo was taken during of my first workshops. Luckily clouds disappeared and sun came out to help create this shot.

Cherry blossom in New Zealand is a big deal. Usually, we have festivals going on with lots of people taking pics with cherries. It is the prime time of spring. This styled shoot was at a private location with lots of cherry trees.

Beauty in lavender field. I love creating goddess look images. This location was perfect for a purple-themed shoot.
On the day this shot was taken it was bright daylight and sun was hiding behind the clouds only few times. So we had to hide in a shadow of trees, that luckily were in front of the field.
When sun is out all colours pop and shadows become very harsh. It suits for some types of photography, but not mine.
Anyways with a bit of struggle we got pretty good shots.

My favourite portrait shot from our trip to the lavender field.
Like many of us, I'm just in love with lavender and always wanted to shoot in a lavender field.
There are no lavender fields around Tauranga, but I found few in Waikato. So I've decided to shoot in Lavender Backyard Garden. It costs $100 per hour to shoot in the evening, as the farm closing at 5 and can be only rented for after hours.
So I've decided to shoot in the morning once it's opened. Had to start driving at 7am from Tauranga. My model and MUA started preparation at 7am in Hamilton.
Things we do for a great shot.

Photoshoot at one of the oldest trees in New Zealand - 400-500 y.o. Pohutukawa, native NZ tree.
It's just enormous! This location is a tourist attraction in Tauranga, I found out about it from a newspaper. After visiting it I was instantly inspired! Amazing mother nature creates perfect photography locations right in front of our door.

It was so exciting to shoot on a boat!
I found it while walking around the neighborhood. I took a photo and post it on Facebook trying to find the owner.
People were so responsive and within a day Valerie the owner called me. Her husband John built this boat around 40 years ago.
They are retired and were very happy not only providing the boat for a photoshoot, but also John helped us through the whole process. He is into his 80s and still planning to travel by his other boat which he started to build 40 years ago as well and finished not so long ago.
Again so thankful for the people and opportunities which photography career brings me.

Do you know where is one of the oldest trees in New Zealand?

This 400-500 years old pohutukawa tree was my inspiration for this photo shoot.
It is located on Pitau Rd at Mount Maunganui. This tree was growing from the seed at the same time period that Pocahontas was saving life of John Smith, Galileo saw the moons of Jupiter through his telescope, Versailles were starting to be built and Peter the Great became Czar (Russian Empire)⚜️

I've decided to show image of forest fairy, the guardian of this old tree, so to speak ✨

This image is from the series shot on one of the oldest trees in New Zealand. This 400-500 years old pohutukawa tree was my inspiration for this photo shoot.

One of my creative photoshoots with Pohutukawa blooms???
Pohutukawa is a native NZ tree. It's also called Christmas tree, as it always blooms by Christmas ???
It's absolutely gorgeous when in the alley all trees turn blood red????