Wedding: Ben + Linda

Posted by in Terrara House Estate, Wedding

I had been looking forward to Ben + Linda’s wedding since they booked. It meant I’d be back at the beautiful Terrara House Estate! Many of you have seen Ben & Linda from the sample album we made up of their e’session photos, so here is their wedding! Linda got ready at her parent’s house, dressed in Nowra, then everything else was on-property at Terrara. Our 2 favourite Southern Highlands vendors provided the hair and makeup. Megan of Visionary Hair and Yvette + Margaux from Ethix Makeup.

I also had with me good friend and talented Michelle helping, check out her photos here. Anyway enough vendory talk, onto their stunning wedding…

Linda wore a stunning Sarah Devine gown… Michelle and I agreed we could photograph it foreeeeeever…

just utterly gorgeous…

then arriving at Terrara House…

A tear was running done Ben’s face as he hugged Linda’s Dad at the front of the ceremony…

We were the first to have photographic access to the new day-spa at Terrara for some photos!

see what I mean about the dress…??

Terrara provided a 5-course meal for the guests, very fitting for the Italian’s there!

Ben & Linda played the music to The Beatles ‘I want to hold your hand’, with words on the back of the menu for their guests to join in…

some first-dance hotness…

then we stole B+L for some night photos around Terrara…

Welcome back from Fiji guys… it was hard enough trying to decide which ones to put up on the blog, so I can’t wait to show you the rest!

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Bridal: Andrew + Esteé

Posted by in Bridal, Trash the Dress

Following on from Esteé’s gorgeous wedding earlier, Esteé wanted another excuse to wear her beautiful dress again. We started the photoshoot in an old theatre that Esteé has found. I love it when our clients find amazing locations I didn’t know about before! After that we ended up at Bellambi beach where we coaxed even Andrew into the water, despite his mild protests that it was a ‘trash the dress’ shoot and not trash the groom 🙂

Check this location… awesome!

plenty of people were stopping to watch – along with some old pensioners who looked horrified 😀

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Sneak Peek: Bridal with Jenny Sun

Posted by in Bridal

On Tuesday this week we shot another long-awaited, bridal shoot with friend and photographer, Jenny Sun. Here is the previous shoot we did.

And here is a peek from the shoot… I’m really looking forward to posting some more shortly!

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E’session: Geoff + Kerrie

Posted by in Esession

On a lazy… (well I was in the office editing) Sunday afternoon, I met Geoff & Kerrie at my studio for their e’session. I had gone for a quick drive before they arrived and discovered some stunning places for photos! Just about all the places we photographed in, ran the risk of us being kicked out, but they were as keen as me and no-one minded us there.

Love this old bridge… suits this sort of processing…

love this one… it was a dried up lake… Kerrie could be a hair-model!!

then the sun came out to play for a while…

found this AMAZING location… putting together a bridal shoot there very soon!!

getting super dark… (2000 iso, 1/40s @f1.8!!)

and a gorgeous sunset to finish… = me very happy!!

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Albums: Queensberry

Posted by in Wedding Albums

Just wanted to show off a couple of yummy albums that arrived last week. There are so many options for your album that every one looks so individual and we never tire of seeing how all the different albums look! The first is Tim & Genevieve’s album from their wedding in August. They chose a brown contemporary leather that matches with their cover image & ivory mats inside. Here it is with the duplicate parents albums…

And here is a new studio sample album from Luke & Erica’s wedding also back in August. It’s our first panoramic album so it’s a bit extra special! All the albums come in these swanky velvet bags as well as presentation boxes.

Black leather cover with metallic photo front…

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Wedding: Troy & Kristy

Posted by in Belgenny Farm - Camden, Wedding

Recently, on the 14th of November, was Troy & Kristy’s wedding! I recently blogged their e’session mentioning that I knew it would be a fun day – and I think these photos back me up 🙂 Kristy got ready at her parents place in Lugarno, where Troy joined us shortly after for a ‘first look’ session. We grabbed some photos before the wedding at Belgenny Farm, and also afterwards.

pretty much how both of them were the whole day…

Troy gets a look in, on Kristy…

this was merely the driveway on their parents house… are you kidding me??? 🙂

running a little late to the ceremony, but it didn’t matter, Troy had already seen K and knew she was going to turn up!

Belgenny was an amazing place in itself to have photos, but I was distracted by the pretty haybales in the neighbouring fields..

then a few dusk photos around Belgenny…

and a stunning sunset to finish with!

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Bridal: Nick + Maria

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The 2nd time we tried to shoot Nick & Maria’s bridal, the first because it was raining and we nearly had the same again this time! We were all set to go, so we braved the foreboding weather, the flies and electric fences for some photos!

often on super-cloudy days we get amazing skies…

when the train of Maria’s dress was down it was the most AMAZING dress!!

Love this next one…

…one seriously amazing dress hey!

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New Website up!

Posted by in Website

After what has felt like a forever, I’ve finally got our new website up! I blogged back in August that changes were coming so it’s nice to know they are now here! I designed the logo / layout myself and then pulled it all together using Adobe products.

Included in the new changes are;
new layout, logo design, portfolio slideshow (with fullscreen option), new services (bridals, crazybooth), new packages / prices and a slightly different blog design.

our new design:
(view it here)

our previous (dated) design:
(view it here)

…new stationery is coming also!!

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Ben, Sarah + Levi

Posted by in Personal, Portraits

Ben & Sarah are great friends of ours from Brisbane. And by great friends I mean seriously great friends. Friends who will play poker with you in hospital until the nurse kicks them out. Friends who’ll go on holidays with you and your 2 toddlers, friends who will turn up on your door with thai/gourmet pizza/cheese & wine and a packet of cards just when you need it. We seriously miss them now that they’re living in Brisbane! A couple of months before Caleb was born Ben & Sarah welcomed their gorgeous son Levi into the world. On our recent holiday to Kingscliff, Jonathan took the opportunity to take a few snaps of their little guy and new family.

We headed down the beach and the sky was just beautiful…

Ben is seriously one of the most attentative and doting dads around…

Aww… we miss you guys & love you all lot’s  xx

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Wedding: Pat + Katie

Posted by in CityBeach Function Centre - Wollongong, Wedding

Pat & Katie were married on the 31st of October in Wollongong. They had their ceremony at The Novotel, Wollongong and then their reception at Citybeach function centre. The whole day had an emphasis on fun, with everyone given an african drum at the reception to drum in the bridal party! Flowers were by the fabulous Erica Jayne, and it was great to see Gary again from Sketchbook Weddings shooting video.

Katie had a gorgeous Maggie Sottero dress…

Looking stunning…

their son Bailey looking on happily during the ceremony…

then around Wollongong for some photos…

always love gardens to shoot in…

jumping in the giant watering can at the botanic gardens… 🙂

then a couple down at the beach… love this one…

Pat & Katie had a beach-style theme, with all the tables named after the places they have been to… talk about making me jealous!

we setup a crazybooth and Katie brought some props – we had a great time…!

Then a few night photos around citybeach…

enjoy your holiday in Bora Bora on Wednesday guys! Give me a call if you want to do a shoot while you’re there 😀

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