I’m excited to share some photos I took for Manly Spirits. 

If you haven’t heard of them yet, they’re an award-winning Northern Beaches distillery producing premium spirits including gins, botanical vodkas and whiskies. Using artisanal methods and taking much of their inspiration from the surrounding marine environment of the NSW coastline, their spirits (particularly their gins), are crafted using a carefully-considered blend of ingredients. These include sustainably foraged marine botanicals, Australian natives and more traditional gin botanicals, balanced with the highest quality Australian grain spirit.

My first photoshoot captured their newly launched Lilly Pilly Pink Gin. My brief was to style and photograph cocktails featuring their newest gin. To say that I enjoyed this shoot would be an understatement. Pink gin, botanicals and fresh fruit - what’s not to love?

My second and third photoshoots were all about the RTD (ready-to-drink) range of gins - I’m so up with the drink industry lingo - actually, when Vanessa (Manly Spirits’ co-owner) asked me to shoot the RTDs, I had to google the acronym to understand what I was being asked to photograph - *insert eyeroll.

And there you have it… What do you think? Which one would you choose to drink?