Eddy

Had a shoot last week with my old friend Eddy.

Ed's a drifter. He's sometimes in Margs, sometimes in Perth and sometimes in Indo.

He always has something to tell you about the world and always leaves you feeling a little bit lighter about life.

The last week or so I kept bumping into him at the dog beach early in the morning with his Yelo coffee in hand and Popeye the Jack Russell at his side, so I managed to lock him in for a shoot.

The weather really turned on for us, easterly winds with the best sunset I've seen in a while.

Throughout the shoot I didn't give Eddy a single direction, he was just telling his stories and I was just taking my photos. Every now and then he'd say "want me to do a headstand on my skateboard?" or "want me to do some ballet in the water?". Cool.

I used my Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 II USM for a few of the portraits from this shoot which I don't usually do, but I thought it might suit Ed and his story telling .. I was also trying to get a bit more of a variety of shots within my portraits, as I usually just go straight for the close up photos with my Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM. I can never resist the beautiful soft feel this lens produces. I just really love faces and the intimacy and cool compositions you can create when you're right up close, which is a bit odd because I'm not like that at all as a human, just as a photographer. Shooting wide angle portraits was refreshing for me though and I'm loving the different feel it gives the images.

Here is a little visual story from my afternoon with Eddy.

Paris x   

Hannah and Shane

Hannah and Shane are having a baby. A little girl, due in one month.
I went to Hannah's baby shower a few weeks ago, and after seeing how amazing she looked I decided I needed to take some maternity photos of her.
Luckily she agreed, so we headed down to Woodman Point on the weekend for a shoot.
So we were having a great time on the shoot and then Shane was kind enough to point out a sign that said we were shooting next to a burial ground (as Woodman Point is the old quarantine centre)... Thanks Shane... Next location guys...

Hannah is simply beautiful at the moment. Well she is beautiful all the time, but just extra, extra beautiful right now as you can see.

Here are some photos from their maternity shoot, thanks so much Hannah and Shane x

Jess and Alex's Wedding

One of good friends from my CIT Photography course recently got engaged, and I was honoured to be asked to photograph her wedding. There was a bit of pressure photographing a photographer, but it was mostly great coz Jess was just all about the photos, and had some great ideas to throw in. She is also ridiculously beautiful and elegant, perfect! 

I had decided that I wanted to shoot the bridal party photos on a large hill in an even larger paddock on a random farm that Jess showed me. I was all prepared to make them climb through a barbed wire fence and trudge up the hill before Jess's mum had the brilliant idea to just ask the farmer if we could drive everyone up the hill. Good work Rebecca, I don't think I would have been very popular otherwise. It was a beautiful location though, all golden fields and sunshine (worth climbing through barbed wire fences for).

Thanks Jess and Alex for letting me photograph your big day, it's so obvious how in love these guys are. See you after the honeymoon Jess! xxx