Honey Atkinson

Honey Atkinson I’m a visual storyteller. I love helping creatives, farmers, chefs, makers, and small business owners put good things out into the world.

Two weeks into winter and I’m still thinking about autumn.There’s a special quality to the light. The angle shifts just ...
17/06/2026

Two weeks into winter and I’m still thinking about autumn.

There’s a special quality to the light. The angle shifts just enough that everything glows a little differently. The days are still long, the mornings cool but not cold. The grapevine goes from amber to the most wild orange-red, like it’s having one last party before it drops everything.

And the garden in autumn refuses to be just one season. The last of the summer flowers are still going, the autumn things are in full swing, and the lavender is already starting. It all layers on top of itself and builds to this crescendo that makes my chest ache a little… because I never wanted to end!

This year we had tables full of apples and pears coming in from the orchard. Afternoons stewing fruit for the kids. Jars of bottled pears and quinces lining up on the bench. I felt genuinely rich.

I know it’s winter now. But I wanted to sit with it a little longer… this is my love letter to autumn.

11/06/2026

You don’t need a lighting kit. You need a window.

I’ve been a photographer for over 20 years. I shoot with studio lights, video lights, a mix of both depending on the job. But when it comes to portraits, I almost always come back to natural window light, and this setup in particular. It’s just so good for skin tones.

Front-lit portraits are my go-to because the light wraps around your face evenly, fills in shadows, and gives your eyes that beautiful, alive quality. No fancy gear, no studio setup. Just you, facing the glass.

In this reel I show you what happens when you move:

Side lit, and suddenly every texture, line, and angle gets pronounced. Great for architecture, not always so kind to faces.

Backlit, and your face goes flat and dark. The camera can’t compete with the light source behind you.

Then back to facing the window, where the light is soft and even because it’s coming through the glass without direct sun behind it.

Save this one for the next time you’re about to take a photo of someone and the light feels off.

Sahra shows up in front of my camera every month for her brand Le Sac.She also hates it.Not the work, not the brand - ju...
03/06/2026

Sahra shows up in front of my camera every month for her brand Le Sac.

She also hates it.

Not the work, not the brand - just the vulnerability of being seen. And worrying, will everyone think I’m ’into myself’?!

After almost every shoot we end up laughing. Because pulling poses when you’re just a normal person is bloody uncomfortable.

I’m not immune to this either. I know what it feels like to doubt yourself in front of a lens. To wonder if you look ridiculous. To want to disappear.

But I also know what’s on the other side of doing it anyway.

When you work with like-minded people who are also sensitive you find common ground. The discomfort doesn’t disappear, but it gets lighter. You laugh more. You get the good stuff.

That’s what I want for every woman I work with.

I feel it too. But let’s do it anyway.

Location - We shot this in our garden at home (Bega Valley), which makes me smile… this space we grow food and flowers in is becoming a location for client shoots.

Brenner came to me because of my personal work, not my client portfolio. For any creative, that’s a gift.She was launchi...
01/05/2026

Brenner came to me because of my personal work, not my client portfolio. For any creative, that’s a gift.

She was launching The Conservation Collage Project and knew she needed imagery to support something she felt deeply passionate about. But she was hesitant to show her face. But we’d built up a lot of trust.. so she did it anyway.

We started in her tropical backyard in the Atherton Tablelands and ended the day wading into a glowing creek in Mareeba as the sun dropped below the gum trees.

walked away with a collection of photographs and videos she loves. If you’ve been putting off a shoot because it feels like too much, send me a DM.

Honey

Autumn has been pretty magnificent these last few weeks.We’ve been been cutting wood, lighting fires, watching the garde...
28/04/2026

Autumn has been pretty magnificent these last few weeks.

We’ve been been cutting wood, lighting fires, watching the garden do its last big show before it rests. And in between all of that I’ve been doing this five minute practice I picked up from audiobook, The Brain That Breathes.

Jodi calls it soft fascination. Letting your eyes land on something ordinary and just… staying there for a bit. Letting your mind wander and come back.

I’ve been practicing it in the garden, outside of my office window with the clouds and the stars, which feel impossibly clear right now.

It’s a small thing. But it’s been feeding something in me that gets depleted when I stay too close to a screen.

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