Fairy Tales in the Forrest.

So there are days when you just want to shoot for fun, when Dani came up with a great idea lets put some girls in cute little outfits and have a bit of fun. Well I had been looking for the chance to have a little fun after the end of the Spring bride season. So when this offer came up as you can guess I was in boots and all.

Shari and Scott 15th October 2010

It's Friday and it's wet oh! is it wet, today was to be a bluff top wedding with the reception on the roof of Villa Mar Corlina, but that is not what took place, It's funny how things turn out and I sit there watching them unfold, this was a small family wedding, Shari and Scott came to me because they have this cute little VW car that they have been doing up for the last couple of years, it is there pride and joy and they wanted it in there wedding and photos, a big landscape with the beach, island, car and them, one great photo to hang on there wall, not your normal wedding photos, just this one photo,
So on there Friday it rained, I was sitting there thinking what will we do and then it happened 4.30 pm on clue it stopped, it stopped raining, I could not believe it, it had been pelting all day, and now it stops, I looked at Scott, Scott looked at me, and then we both looked at Shari, "Get in the car lets do this thing". We had the spot, we had the practise, now we just need to get there before the sun went down, while there was some light in the sky,





As we pulled up I could see the sky lighting up, to say we where rushed would be an understatement 15 mins we got, we had a couple of extra people hanging around everyone got a job, and yes I believe we nailed it.




By the time we left the beach it was dark, I was flat out seeing the couple walking hand in hand up the beach, but we got the photo, we got there landscape with there little car,

Ammy and Mark 9th October 2010

You know I go to weddings to take photos for couples, and every time one person in the party is a star, the character, the I am the actor, there is aways one you just have to work out which one that is, this time it was the groom he was a funny bugger, see I have this little rule and it goes like this, after the ceremony when the family photos are done yes you can have beer, bring your drinks with you and just put them down when you are in the photo or behind you back or in this case behind your wife's back, Mark was not letting go of that beer, cracks me up.
So it was a windy Saturday lunch we all meet at the beach,





Ammy and Mark have the cuties kids,

Amanda and Sof 25th September 2010

I rolled over early Saturday morning and it was pelting down wet, wet, wet, it had been for days you think it would stop for brides on Saturdays, but it doesn't it does rain on Saturdays to make wedding photographers better at there job, we have to try harder to find light, its there you just have to look harder or make it yourself.
So today was Amanda and Sof's wet wedding day, a Greek wedding I was a little excited about this, after a quick scout around town looking for dry spots we headed to the Leichart Hotel, I had dropped in to say hello the night before, and there it was a red couch, wow! that would be fun.





And so it rained all day, and then just as all the brides in Rockhampton came out of there churches it stoped for 1 Hour 30 minutes the sunshine happened, and then as then sun went down the rain came back, there where brides everywhere we looked 5 I think we counted its September it's bride month, and there we all where grabbing the sun.



What a beautiful church,

Now it would be an understatement to say that Sof made me work for every photo but what happen while he was mucking up was a chemistry between Amanda and Sof that went straight down the camera lens. It truly was amazing, I was standing there snapping away while Sof played around not one bit interested in my ploys for him to stand here, move there, this young lad had just married the love of his life and she was standing there in this beautiful dress looking just magic, and well he just wanted to play with her and so he did, and well I just snapped and snapped, It worked.

and then he danced, he danced his Greek dance for his new wife, and I just stood there gobbed smacked that I was the lucky one capturing this.



So I headed home, thinking to myself how lucky I am to spend time with people on there wedding days, what started as a wet Saturday ended up to be a great day.

Holly and Hamish Wedding 18th September 2010

Keppel Island "Poor Me"
This is just the kind of wedding I like, or need, you climb on a boat go to an island and get stuck there till the boat leaves the following afternoon, ARRRR! poor me. It was 12 months ago when Holly's best friend rang to ask if I was free on this day, I was, lucky me, an island wedding and a weekend away all in one package, all went to plan except that my wedding offsider Sam, twisted her knee the day before and couldn't walk, "what to do, what to do" Plan B, mmmmmmmm, no plan b I hadn't needed plan b so far so it wasn't quite finished, Then a thought "Ed!" He is a good plan b, how will I get him to come to Keppel for the weekend, Ed's is not much of a wedding person, (note there is no ring on my finger), least of all when he will have to help me carry all my gear on the boat, off the boat, accross sand dunes, and into a cabin, Cause see Holly and Hamish are getting married at sunset, so with studio lights in tow for family photos after dinner and clothes, cameras, tripods ext, we where going to need a trailer, LOL.
Well it turns out we have the best weather, the best sunset, the very best dress, and a great lot of people, and they where here for a party. Great red wine did I mention they had my favourite red wine what a wedding, stuck on an island with Ed, my camera, a beautiful wedding, and finished of with a wine and we got invited to join them for dinner, prefect.

Emma and Jon Burke Friday 13th August

It's a Friday the 13th Wedding, keeping with the theme it's a little red and black affair, and a great family affair, the room was buzzing with family coming and going hairdressers and makeup, we where all at Rosslyn Bay Inn,the receptionwas at Beaches Wedding room, Emma and Jon where getting married in the gardens,

Kabra Mud Races 17th July 2010

Come take some photos at the mud races they said, well Ok! that sounds like a fun way to spend a Saturday, Got a little excited about it through the week worked myself in to a tail spin, did a bit of research to find out what was required from a mud racing photographer, you know the stuff, the do's and don'ts, "don't go on the track, don't get it the way, and please don't get run over there is to much paper work to fill out if you do," yep I have heard it all before, Like I really would like to be hit by a motor vehicle hurtling towards me at a racing speed. So Saturday morning arrived through the gear in the car and of to Kabra I headed, found the boss lady who gave me the run down, "don't go on the track" yeah yeah I got that bit, then to my great surprise she said " but you can go out there in that box right out there in the middle of the race if you like" my little eyes light up, COOL!!! I am so there. So off I toddled, standing in my little box RIGHT in the middle of the action, this dude walks up to me and says "haven't been here before hey!", with my, I am really I can't believe I got this spot look on my face, "ARR No!" "Hope your good at ducking" he reckons, whatever is going through my brain, look at where I am standing this is a photographers dream spot. So the day started, the first lot of cars came out, thought in head now was "SHIT" I did learn real quick to duck, got covered in mud from head to toe camera gear took two days to clean, But Oh! the photos, worth it, you bet.





What a day, I did look like a pig in a stye by the end of the day, this was not normal mud, this was black thick stick to everything mud, like I am not your normal "Oh I just broke a nail" kind of girl.