Last Monday was the wedding of Sally and Brenton at All Smiles of the Yarra Valley. With the Converse kicks to the funky S&B custom logos on everything, makes it photographer’s gold. Add to that a couple very much in love, we made some awesome images that day. Here is just a taste. Be sure to like my Facebook fan page to be notified of the next instalment.
I love it when I deliver a client’s wedding images to them and when they see them they make ‘oohs, awes’ and burst out laughing when they are reminded of the fun times they had on their wedding day. Nathalie and Matt did exactly this, a wonderful couple with down to earth souls and a lot of fun. The beautiful flowers are from Debbie O’Neill and the venue, Immerse Winery is ideal for a ceremony and reception on one property. For a killer trio band look up the boys from Three Style, they had the crowd going all night. I hope you enjoy the images, I enjoyed taking them. I’d love it if you would share this post via Facebook using the Like button. Marcel.
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Short but sweet was Nathalie and Matt’s wedding at Immerse Winery, Dixon’s Creek; I didn’t have full day coverage, but at the end of the day I walked away with a massive amount of gorgeous images. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house during the beautiful ceremony, with very moving words of love and emotion. Here is a just a taster of the images from the day, all blessed with gorgeous sunshine. The full blog is now ready for viewing here.
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I know, I know…I’ve been a slack blogger lately, but I’m back from holidays now and its back to business. Here is the final blog post from Shari and Cameron’s wedding at the stunning Alowyn Gardens in the Yarra Valley. I’d have to put these gardens down as my favourite in Victoria, just gorgeous. Enjoy until next time, there is a lot more to come from the start of this year.
I know, I know; I’m blogging this wedding about three months late, better late then never right? This wedding was an absolute hoot to shoot, Melanie and Ryan were filled with life and love. The venue was gorgeous, with a million spots to take photos, but not enough time to explore them all. If you have stumbled across this post on Google, yes the venue comes highly recommended. Anyway enjoy the images from the day.
Its that time of year again where you have get used to writing the correct year again on forms, New Year resolutions are tried and tested and the credit card hangover kicks in for some. I hope everyone has had a great Christmas and a safe New Years. 2011 has been a great year for my business; I have met some truly amazing people and been there on the best day of their lives, I have risen immensely in my photographic technique, getting more and more pleased as I watch the photos download from my memory cards after each day and each wedding seems to flow really well when it comes to the photos by having more confidence and higher quality gear. I now have actually started to see a repeat in venues from wedding to wedding too, which is not a bad thing, its great in fact; it challenges me to make each wedding look different, I get to know the staff of the venue, but above all gives you, the client, better photographs as I know the venue from a photographic sense. With so many photographers out there it is now getting rarer than ever that they see a photographer more than once at some venues.
In 2011 I have also gathered a great bunch of friends in the wedding photography industry, having photographed as a second shooter for a handful of great operators, met up with some awesome people at our group meets and shared and received some advice on all things photographic and business. This year will see my first proper venture into fashion (i’ll tell you more about it in a coming post) as well as some weddings in gorgeous locations. This year will also focus on getting me more industry training, some website massaging including a new gallery system, an improved contact page as well a products section and maybe some new and exciting printed products being added to the already fantastic range I offer.
What I want to share with you today is my 40 favourite images of 2011 that I hand picked myself for no particular reason other than I just liked them. Each one has its own story to tell so I won’t bore you with caption after caption; they all were picked, not to sum up my portfolio or to show you my best work, just to show you the amazing moments I froze in time with the press of a button. These photographs show me either an unrepeatable slice of time that got unnoticed by 99% of the people at the wedding, they show some very emotive moments that were captured and remind the couple of the feelings they felt when they get the pictures, photos I may have captured by pure fluke or by chance, photos that pushed my creativity, photos that may have taken a long time to setup or the light was just perfect and it was the star of the show.
I also chose some photographs that I remember I was having a great time myself, either by laughing my butt off when the boys were running amuck during their shoot or when the moment was so perfect I fired off so many frames my camera’s buffer filled up before the memory card could write them. Luckily I don’t use film anymore!
Keep an eye out for long overdue blog post for last few weddings of the last quarter of 2011, I just have been so busy and I have put my client’s product delivery first. Also a big thanks to my previous clients and the Flickr group for your support, it means a lot. Now off to do the last adjustments of the last wedding of the year so I have a clean slate for 2012!
When the weather forecast says your wedding day has thunderstorms due to occur at the same time as your ceremony, you tend to worry a bit as a couple getting married. Hey, I even worry too as not all of my gear if water proof! But the gloomy forecast didn’t worry Shari and Cameron; they just wanted to have the most amazing day possible, and that they got. The rain held out until everyone was snug at the reception courtesy of the ultra cool Treble Cleff Jazz Lounge in the hills of Chirnside Park luckily, but I got a soaking when taking the final few images of the night outside. The wedding ceremony venue Alowyn Gardens is simply spectacular; I’d recommend them to anyone and you’ll love the accommodating hosts Prue and her husband John. Prue was happy to show me around and organise what I needed. The garden has scores of little spots that greet you at every turn and the most precisely trimmed hedges I’ve ever seen. Shari’s two boys Shane and Cameron (I had to call him little Cam as not to confuse him with big Cam) had a ball and were excellent sports for the photo sessions. The beautiful setting suited Shari and Cameron to the ground as they are very grounded and a fun loving couple. With a laugh shared and tear shed by all during their beautiful ceremony; it made for an excellent day.
Here are the rest of the images from Zoe and Ryan’s beautiful love filled winter wedding that I wanted to upload before I went on my break. I can highly recommend Inglewood Estate as a venue, the staff there are super friendly and you could photograph twenty different weddings there and still not two photos the same, due the numerous shooting locations there. You can see the first sneak peek here that I uploaded in late June. While I’m on my holidays, still feel free to email any enquiries; there just maybe a delay in the response. Enjoy, and until next time…
Here we are folks, my favourite images from the wedding of Bianca and Travis. May their time together be full of happiness and good times. I’ll upload in two parts as there a few images and it’s late. Feel free to leave comments. Part two is located here.
There you have it. There will be more images uploaded tomorrow.
Hi all, below is a small selection from the last wedding we photographed on March the 20th, 2010 at the amazing Inglewood Estate in Kangaroo Ground, Victoria ideally suited to this fun loving couple. More to come in a week or two, so stay tuned. Feel free to comment too! The full blog post can be viewed by clicking here.
Marcel.
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