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One Tree Hill Engagement Shoot – Thalia & Josiah

I’m not sure why, but whenever someone mentions ‘One Tree Hill’ I just imagine a single tree on a beautifully landscaped green hill, similar to the famous Windows XP wallpaper. Perhaps it has something to do with the town’s name? 😛 Anyway when I arrived on Josiah’s family farm for Thalia and Josiah’s Engagement shoot, One Tree Hill pretty much lived up to it’s name sake. There were rolling green hills that made for beautioful vistas, and even an incredible flowering (cherry?) tree that would not have look out of place in a Harry Potter film! The only thing better would have been if the tree was on top of the hill!

We used this area for their engagement shoot as Thalia and Josiah shared one of their first dates here, in amongst the bushes, which were unfortunately a little sparce due to it being winter, but still made for an awesome spot for a little picnic. This little corner of Adelaide was a stunning spot to visit and I mentioned it to Josiah that they could probably rent out the space for wedding photography 🙂 I had a bunch of fun and captured some really unique shots!

Amongst the ruins
On top of the hill
Under a tree
Under a beautiful tree
Ruins
Smelling the flowers
Walking
Under a tree
Amongst the ruins
Smiles
On top of the hill
One Tree Hill Engagement shoot
Ruins
Under the branberry
Engagement photo poses
Under a beautiful tree
Engagement rings
Amongst the greenery
Walking up the hill
Under a beautiful tree
On top of ruins
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Stunning Santorini Couple PhotoShoot – Greece

  • Geri & Ashwin

    Santorini Couple Shoot – Greece

    Santorini Couple Shoot

I was super excited to cover Geri and Ashwin’s Santorini Couple PhotoShoot as I happened to be on the Greek island of Santorini for Kerri and Tony’s wedding for which they were guests to! Geri’s choice of dress was amazing as the red of her dress really stood out amongst the typical blue and white for which the island of Santorini is famous for. Both Geri and Ashwin were quite natural in front of a camera also, making for some wonderful scenes without much effort, and while surrounded by the sun parched surrounds of Thera on Santorini, it made for some lovely scenes.

I said it before and I’ll say it again, shooting in Santorini and expecting to be surrounded by pristine stairways and white buildings is fine, but you also need to be prepared for throngs of tourists also getting in the way! Leading up to Kerri and Tony’s wedding photo shoot I had scouted out certain spots around the city that seemed to have fewer tourists than others, while still looking awesome.

So I took Geri and Ashwin to all the same spots as I took Kerri and Tony, with a few other spots thrown in. As the time of the day was very different between Kerri and Tony’s shoot and Geri and Ashwins, it was quite interesting to visit the same areas and work with the different light.

Santorini Couple PhotoShoot

Amongst the white buildings of Santorini
Above a blue domed church
Santorini Couple Shoot
Geri
Sitting on a wall
Smiles all round
Sitting on a wall
Holding one another
From above
Walking about together
Walking about Santorini
Kisses
On a bench together
Holding one another
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Baby Hadley – Newborn Shoot

  • In a basket

 

Baby Hadley

Say hello to Baby Hadley! One great thing about being a wedding photographer is that I get to meet many of the cute little babies that come as a natural result of being married 😛 While I diddnt cover Miranda and Jake’s wedding as they were married overseas, I did cover their reception party that took place more locally several years ago.

This little cutie wasn’t overly keen on having her newborn photos done, but we managed to get a couple in between plenty of mummy and daddy cuddles 🙂 It is a bit of a scary thing to do sometimes when you’ve only experienced the world for 3 weeks. It was wonderful meeting little baby Hadley, and my little one, Chloe was also quite excited to make a new friend! 😀

Holding Hadley
Baby foot
Hadley
Closeup family
Smiles
In a basket
laying down
Chilling in a basket
In a basket
Mummy cuddles

Grange Beach & Crozier st Engagement shoot – Georgia & Nick

I was excited to hear that Georgia and Nick wanted an engagement shoot done before I cover their wedding in October, 2020. So after considering a few different locations for their shoot, Georgia settled on heading down to the Grange Beach and Jetty for some beach shots, then heading over to Port Adelaide’s Crozier St for some industrial shots to add variety. I suggested to begin rather early in the day so as to avoid people enjoying the beach on what was a rather hot week, so we met each other at just after sun up at 7:30 am!

Grange Beach

Once meeting I got into having Georgia and Nick walk together amongst the Grange beach sand dunes while I was a fair distance away in order to get Georgia and Nick a bit more relaxed before heading down to the shoreline for shots along the waterline and under the jetty.

Under the jetty
Under the jetty
Walking along the beach
On the jetty together
Standing on the sand hills
Under the jetty
Under the jetty
Under the jetty
Grange Beach Engagement shoot
Under the jetty
On the jetty together

Crozier Street

Everything went rather swimmingly at the beach so we head over to Crozier st a little earlier than expected, but that was good as we got to spend a little more time in my favourite street in Adelaide! We however were not the only group with the same idea with another photographer and model using the street as a backdrop while we were there! This isn’t overly unusual as Crozier st is very popular amongst photographers. 🙂 The great thing about this street is the wonderfully aged concrete and wooden doors lining the road which make for wonderful backdrops.

in the trees
Money shot of Crozier st
Money shot of Crozier st
In an old doorway
Together in Crozier Street
Walking together
Walking along Crozier st
Walking in the trees
Together against the wall
Engagement ring
In an old doorway

Looking forward to covering Georgia and Nick’s wedding in a few year’s time!