NELSON and TASMAN, NEW ZEALAND

Photography & web design under one roof.

We help small businesses attract loyal, profitable customers with images worth remembering and websites worth visiting.

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A young woman with long blonde hair and tattoos, wearing a yellow dress, holding a sparkler in front of a blurred background of trees with string lights, celebrating.
A young woman with long blonde hair and tattoos, wearing a yellow dress, holding a sparkler in front of a blurred background of trees with string lights, celebrating.
Screenshot of the Squarespace website homepage with a background gradient from blue to pink, showing the navigation menu, logo, and promotional text about starting a free website trial.
A bearded man playing an electric guitar on stage with colorful red, blue, and purple lights and fog.
A bearded man playing an electric guitar on stage with colorful red, blue, and purple lights and fog.
Website Design

Website Design from

$799

Headshots from

$159

Profits 2 animal causes

10%

Two crafts. One studio. 

Everything you need to look the part and get found.

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Commercial Photography

Headshots, portraits, events, music and brand imagery. Real people, real moments, people buy from people.

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Website Design

Clean, fast websites easy to navigate, search-ready, and built to turn visitors into customers.

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Photography that earns a second look.

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Headshots, events, music and brand work across the Nelson–Tasman region.

A woman wearing a SPCA uniform holding a tabby cat inside an animal shelter.
Four smiling women wearing black aprons with a community food bank logo, standing behind a table with vegetables and groceries in a room with shelves of supplies and boxes labeled for different meal types.
A man is smiling while holding a large yellow and white box labeled 'Big Cut' in front of an open vehicle trunk filled with more similar boxes. He is wearing a white T-shirt with the logo 'Nelson Community Food Bank' and patterned cargo shorts, and has a cap and glasses. The vehicle appears to be parked outdoors on a cloudy day, with a background of buildings, trees, and a wooden fence.
A man is smiling while holding a large yellow and white box labeled 'Big Cut' in front of an open vehicle trunk filled with more similar boxes. He is wearing a white T-shirt with the logo 'Nelson Community Food Bank' and patterned cargo shorts, and has a cap and glasses. The vehicle appears to be parked outdoors on a cloudy day, with a background of buildings, trees, and a wooden fence.
A woman sitting at a white table by large windows with pink and green flowering plants outside. She appears to be in a softly lit room with wooden floors and draped curtains.

Websites, three ways.

Built on real sales and marketing experience so your site doesn't just look good, it works.

WEBSITE DESIGN

$799 from

Your creative work as the star. Easy to navigate, informative, no flashy clutter just your talents at their best.

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eCommerce

$1999 from

A fully built online store with shopping cart and up to 1,000 products. Customers from Nelson to New York.

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Tune UP

$159 from

Site underperforming? We look under the hood speed, backlinks, SEO and have it purring along in no time

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A Few Kind Words

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“Couldn’t recommend Steve any higher. He is great, personal and very much gets the best candid shots you could want.”
— Nick, owner of Kismet & Mama Cod
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“I can’t recommend Wise Dog Studios highly enough. Steve totally blew away my expectations and made the whole process so easy and fun.”
— Lesley, owner Lesley's Flowers
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“I am grateful to Steve at Wise Dog Studios for the fabulous photos he took at my book launch party. Masterful and intuitive in his work, Steve magically captured the spirit of the event.”
— Elizabeth Gould, Author
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Wise Dog Studios covers two things: professional photography and website design. On the photography side, that's events, live music, headshots, portraits and environmental portraits across Nelson and Tasman. On the web side, that's building clean, fast websites that are easy to navigate and built to turn visitors into customers.

  • Both services come from the same business, so you're welcome to use one or both. Plenty of clients start with a website and add photography later, or the other way round, either works.

  • Based in Nelson, covering the wider Nelson Tasman region for both photography and web design. Happy to travel further afield for the right project.

  • A real mix, from local tradies and real estate agents through to accounting firms, insurance companies and community organisations. If you need photos, a website, or both, there's a good chance I can help.

  • Get in touch and tell me a bit about what you need, whether that's a shoot, a new website, or a full refresh of both. I'll come back with next steps and, if it's photography, we'll lock in a date.

  • Yes, sites are built to be reliable, but if you ever need updates, fixes or a speed and SEO check up, that's part of the service too.

The Wise Dog

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Steve

Once upon a time, there was a little boy who grew up to be a father, a traveller, a terrible bass player, a friend to all animals, an addict to light & shadows and a little obsessed with waterfalls. Trying all my life to describe the beauty.

30+ years of sales and marketing for businesses large and small the likes of Toshiba, Apple.

10% of profits donated to animal charities every year

Let's Have your business barking from the rooftops.

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