I do get a lot of people asking if I do portraits / family shoots. Most of the time I’m far too busy with weddings. This time I made some time in my calendar as a way of thanking this lovely family for looking after Josiah (our eldest son) when Naomi and I went to Hawaii for a wedding last November.

It was a short, fun session, just on our local beach. Here’s some frames I enjoyed taking…

expect to see some more photos like these down the track, I really enjoyed taking them.

Back in December, I was down in Melbourne photographing Andrew & Sonia’s wonderful wedding. Earlier when I was down in Melbourne we chatted and also photographed their e’session. The rain held off for the parts it should and a beautiful day followed. Here’s a few quick frames from their lovely day…

Many thanks for being such wonderful clients <3
More photos here for guests and family. (passcode is Sonia’s maiden name)

I’m becoming quite the regular fixture for weddings at Centennial Vineyards.
Not that I mind at all, the venue is gorgeous, the food is always amazing, the wine perfect and the staff beyond lovely.

Here’s an ‘experimental’ frame from Brendan + Natashas’s wedding at Centennial. The 2nd wedding in a row that I shot last week at Centennial.

With all this overcast weather, I thought it would be a nice reminder to post Rocky and Samantha’s e’session with nice blue skies! They were married a couple of weeks ago and can’t wait to get into editing their wedding. Very gorgeous & very in love!

Today’s wednesday 1up is from a recent hot e’session I shot with motoGP rider, Randy de Puniet and his fiancé, Lauren Vickers.

Today I came across a photographer over in the USA, who was passing off my work as his own. Not just with a few photos, but renaming my couples, using their photos in detailed blog posts and writing his own thoughts on the day, as if they were his weddings.

The internet is big, but the photographer community is close-knit and very defensive of their own. I was alerted to this by a fellow wedding photographer.

Photographers: 
If you intend to steal other photographers work, removing watermarks, re-editing photos that you have not taken etc, beware you will be found out. Maybe not immediately, but you will be eventually. Copyright infringement is a very real, serious offence and the law backs the creator of the original work.

Brides:
Please please, make sure you meet your photographer and see a variety of real, printed work. Its very hard to replicate web-quality images in print and show a whole wedding from it. Even review sites can have false reviews on it from the photographer posing as ex-brides. Do your research, ask for vendor / friend referrals.