Archive for June, 2010

Gorgeous winter light, you know how much I love photographing in winter. I love the colours, the textures and the light. There are many locations that work brilliantly when the leaves fall and the grass dies off. It is just a different look that I can’t get enough of.

Kylie & Gary made an impressive 3 hour drive to have their photos taken, how special does that make us feel !! They knew they wanted something relaxed and casual yet different, a little arty and amazing. They have seen their photos and are extremely impressed and quote “exactly what we wanted”. Thanks guys !

Lachlan is an adorable little man. He did decide to make me work for his smiles. I am sure he really just liked to make an fool out of me, but hey, that is all in a days work ! Kylie & Gary certainly had no problems laughing at the clowning around to get Lachlan to smile :-) . Once we found the things that made him crack he was a breeze !

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Amanda & Robbie saw their photos today and this is the beautiful message I received this afternoon:

“We just love the photo’s, you guys do a fantastic job, and we are so happy to have you both be apart of our wedding day.”

I just love to hear how happy our clients are with their images. We always strive to exceed expectation and it is great to hear feedback. We met Amanda and Robbie in Newcastle on the weekend after we saw Lori & Rhys. We have the honour of photographing Amanda & Robbies wedding later this year and I am eagerly looking forward to their day.

We photographed Amanda’s sisters wedding a little while back and since Amanda & Robbie have added little Brodie to their family. Brodie is the biggest charmer!! He was posing and hamming it up to the camera like you wouldn’t believe.  He is mega handsome and I can just imagine how unbelievably gorgeous he will be in a suit for the wedding. I think I know who may steal the show !!

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The world of email now means that a lot of our correspondence is done over the internet. Sometimes even though you only correspond via email you can tell someones personality just by the way they write. Lori booked us without ever having see us face to face. That is not all that uncommon these days but it still makes gives me BIG smiles when people do as it shows us our work really sells itself.

Lori’s bridesmaid put her in touch with our website after my brother told Lori’s bridesmaid that his sister is a wedding photographer, did you get all that !! So a big thanks to my brother for bragging to the world about us and to Lori’s bridesmaid who I will soon meet. Lori said when she saw our website she loved our work and made the decision very quickly (BIG SMILES) !!

So back to my first statement about emails. I could tell Lori was a beautiful person just from the way she wrote her emails. I predicted a bubbly personality who was going to be a lot of fun. That is exactly who I met on the weekend. She is all of those things and more. Rhys compliments her so well, they both compliment each other and are perfect. They are both very much in love and are going to have the most beautiful wedding.

It was so good to meet you Lori and Rhys. We had a great time with both of you and we are very excited about your wedding. We will see you in a couple of weeks !!

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Time seems to be flying during Byron’s first year. He is now moving around rather fast and loves to be entertained.

He isn’t happy to just sit and watch the world pass by anymore, not that he ever really did.

He now wants to be a part of everything - exploring, playing and learning. Babies really don’t stay babies for very long at all !

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Meet one of our October couples. We have 11 weddings to photograph in October, yes I did say 11. Yes there is only five weekends in October. Life is going to be crazy, even crazier than now. Everyone is loving the winter months and deciding to have portraits done and as I said in an earlier blog post, I love winter photos !

This shoot was all about Renee, Peter, Julia & Cooper. They are the most gorgeous family. Cooper is definately the entertainer. He makes everyone laugh, even me. You can see in the photos how much personality he has. His big sister loves him very much, she will probably kill me for writing that, but she is so good with him. She wants to be a nurse and she has that warm, beautiful personality that will be perfect.

Renee & Peter, thank you for sharing your family with us. We are looking forward to celebrating your wedding with you. The way the year is passing by, we will be seeing you again very soon.

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As the kids grow time gets away. Things like sport, school, work and life take over and people forget that they don’t update their photos nearly as much as they did when the kids were little. Usually the year is documented via a school photo and the rest are snapshots.

I love photographing older children. It is a completely different shoot. You can plan a little more for the final outcome. While still keeping them natural and fresh you can plan to include more of their personalities and create the environment to suit.

I loved photographing these two girls. They giggled their way through the whole shoot and I had a great time.

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