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Creative Images Photography

Photographer · Woolston, Christchurch

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Checked13 October 2026
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Creative Images Photography

Photographer · Woolston, Christchurch

Where you stand#34of 194 photography businesses
Overall health8.3/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

Creative Images Photography is a Christchurch portrait studio based at 694 Ferry Road, Central City. It specialises in lifestyle portraits on nearby beaches and studio sessions that typically run 1-1.5 hours. Sessions can include family groups and dogs, and customers can also buy fine art prints of NZ native birds from the studio, online, or at local galleries.

Creative Images Photography is a portrait studio located at 694 Ferry Road in Christchurch's Central City. The studio focuses on natural, lifestyle portraits and spends a lot of time shooting at nearby beaches to capture families in relaxed, active moments.

Services centre on lifestyle and family portraiture, with sessions lasting around 1 to 1.5 hours. The photographer accepts four-legged family members and offers studio consultations by appointment. Fine art prints of New Zealand native birds are also available to purchase from the studio, online, and via local galleries such as Hapa and Tait Gallery.

Customers commonly describe the shoot experience as relaxed and enjoyable, with several reviewers noting exceptional service and outcomes that became treasured family images. Reviewers mention feeling at ease during sessions and pleased with the final portraits, citing friendly interaction and a comfortable pace as recurring themes.

Locally, Creative Images Photography presents a mix of on-location beach work and an appointment-only studio presence on Ferry Road. Practical features that distinguish the studio include a focus on candid family togetherness, willingness to include pets in sessions, and an additional offering of fine art bird prints that customers can view at the studio or galleries in Christchurch.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Health score for the Google Business Listing of Creative Images Photography is 7.9 out of 10, indicating a solid listing with room for improvements. The most notable findings are that the listing has a valid website link, claimed status, and an active phone number, plus a visible title. The main opportunity is to add a logo and continue expanding photos to improve market presence.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

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    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
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    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
  • 3
    Category fitYour category set covers less of this market than half the field, so there are jobs being searched for near you that your listing is not eligible to appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
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5.0 ★★★★★ (8)
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From the business

Natural portraits that capture the togetherness of your family. Specialising in lifestyle photography at one of our many beautiful beaches. Have fun doing what you enjoy and I'll capture the action - you'll hardly know that I'm there! Happy to include your four legged friends too. Sessions take around 1-1.5 hours Get in touch now to arrange your obligation free consultation at my studio - you'll find me at 694 Ferry Road Christchurch. I'm open by appointment so simply txt or call me on 0274315594 to book in for a chat. I guarantee you'll love what I do. Also available to purchase are beautiful art prints from my extensive range of NZ native birds - you can see these either at my studio, online, at Hapa or Tait Gallery Come on in!

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Creative Images Photography shows an above-average overall health score of 6.0 out of 10 on Google reviews. The top strength is an outstanding star rating in the top 10% of peers, indicating strong customer satisfaction. Another notable point is steady progress in total reviews, suggesting growing visibility and trust among potential clients.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
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Google reviewsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Overall health shows a high level, indicating strong visibility on Google Maps searches. The most notable findings are that aggregate maps results are at or above the local median and the suburb/b borough presence is also at or above median. These signals suggest steady visibility and opportunities to push further in top positions.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than the middle of your suburb, so a customer searching nearby is likely to see you in the first handful.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
8.5Strong
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2Top three for "photography studio" in 2 suburbs, seen in 32
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White Wolf Studio5.0 ★ (3) · Photographer
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Kirsten Naomi Photography5.0 ★ (69) · Photographer
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Soul Creative Studio5.0 ★ (77) · Photographer
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Creative Images Photography15.0 ★ (8) · Photographer
Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #30 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Creative Images Photography shows a very high overall health score and strong social presence. The most notable finding is the outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles, which support brand credibility and ongoing engagement with clients. Opportunities exist in several local directories to broaden reach, especially Neighbourly and Yellow, but these are supplementary to the current strengths.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    StarOfService ProWe can see your StarOfService Pro listing (https://starofservice.co.nz/creative-images-photography-limited) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
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    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
  • 3
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
8.6Strong
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FacebookCreative-Images-Photography-249556001760570Creative Images Photography | Facebook✓
InstagramcreativeimageschristchurchCreative Images Photography | Instagram✓
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LinkedInkatemccaskillclaridgeCreative Images Photography | LinkedIn
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YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

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    A page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
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    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
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    What your page says about youYour intro carries more detail than most pages in this market and is doing the work of a short landing page for the visitors who never reach your website.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
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Stunningly beautiful portraits and landscapes by Master of Photography Bryan Isbister. Timeless images of your family. Relaxed, Casual Children & Family Portraits. Capturing magical moments that you'l...3
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Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Your website

Creative Images Photography shows a solid on-page SEO health with a score of 6.6 out of 10, indicating above-average performance. The site already has strong achievements like no render-blocking resources, a relevant title tag, a small page size, sufficient text, and no frames. Key opportunities include fine-tuning the meta description, adjusting favicon presence, and improving load times for faster visits.

Strengths

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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    Domain Age ScoreYour domain has been registered longer than almost any business in this market.
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    Page file sizeYour home page is light enough to open quickly on a phone with a weak signal, which is where most people meet a local business for the first time.

Top three opportunities

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    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
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    On-page scoreThe basics on your home page are half in place: it opens and it reads, but enough checks still fail that a customer on a phone away from wifi notices the wait before they notice the business.
  • 3
    Page titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

Website traffic shows a moderate health with room for improvement. Key findings include very low estimated organic traffic value and no organic traffic yet, plus no organic keywords in the top 100. Paid traffic appears absent but opportunities exist with targeted campaigns and landing pages to begin capturing attention.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws no measurable visitors from search, so the only people reaching it are ones you sent yourself.
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    Search terms you rank forYour site does not appear in search results for any terms we can measure, so nobody is finding it by searching for what you do.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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21About 0 visits a month from search, across 0 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Creative Images Photography's opening hours largely align with daytime demand: most strong alignment is Monday 11am-2pm and Wednesday 12pm. Missed opportunities occur on weekday evenings when locals search most-notably Tuesday and Wednesday 6pm-9pm. A small amount of low-demand time is open on Friday afternoons, Saturday late afternoon and Tuesday 4pm. Consider shifting a few weekend/afternoon hours into weekday evenings for better commercial impact.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
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Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#34of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
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Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses
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