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

Sarah

A couple of weeks ago I had an early morning shoot with a good friend of mine, Sarah. 

Sarah likes the ocean, coffee and all things hippie, but she does not like early mornings.

So I made her meet me at the beach at 5.30 on a windy and cold morning so that I could take photos of her. Not just photos at the beach, but photos actually in the ocean.... in a beautiful silk skirt, at 5.30am. She was such a good sport, and as soon as we were finished I made sure I put an extra large flat white in her hand ASAP.

I myself am an early morning person, so for a couple of weeks I had been down at the beach early, planning this shoot and checking out the sunrise. When I came around to thinking who I would like to be my model, I knew it had to be Sarah. Sarah is very much a Mother of the Earth kind of girl, she knows exactly what she believes in, what is important to her and who she is, and that just radiates off her. Plus she has the biggest, most soulful blue eyes.
I shot these photos on my Canon 5D MKIII with my 50mm 1.4 lens, which is just such a beautiful lens to shoot with. I have recently re-discovered how much I love this lens, and so it has been my lens of choice recently. 
 I hope you enjoy the photos, a big thank you to the beautiful Sarah for helping me out with this.

Paris x