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Mt Compass Engagement Shoot – Claire & Aaron

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    Engagement Shoot

    Lifting her up silhouette

Mt Compass Engagement Shoot

I had an absolute blast shooting Claire and Aaron’s Mt Compass engagement shoot! I mean take a look at all that golden light that was filtering in through the stunning Australian bushland!

Claire and Aaron are lucky enough to have a friend who owns a farm in Mt Compass – just south of Adelaide that features stunning rolling hills, ponds, rugged bush and some incredible trees. They even made it easy on me and decided to head out for their engagement shoot during golden hour which really made things pretty darn awsome! Turned out to be a stunning shoot!

We began at the top of a hill, which had some huge, gnarly gum trees which we stood under for a few shots to warm up, then walked down the other side to find a stunning little pond enveloped with lush gum trees. There was no wind so the water was still and made for some lovely reflections.

We then head back up the hill and made use of the dying light of the sun filtering in throguh the foliage – which was really beatiful! The hill also overlooked the lovely folling hills that make up the majority of Onkaparinga.

To finish up I broke up one of my last smoke bombs to create a little bit of atmosphere with the sun light filtering in through the smoke.

I had a blast! Looking forward to Claire and Aaron’s wedding at Serafino’s Winery early January now! 😀

Standing together in the sunlight
Couples standing under a gum tree
Standing together under a gum tree
Sun shining through gum tree
Walking down the grassy hill together
Reflections in the pond
Admiring the scenery together
Outstanding in their field
Walking together across the field
Sun shining through a tree above
Couples shot through the leaves
Holding one another in the leaves
Engagement photoshoot
Engagement shoot Mt Compass
Couple near dead tree
Lifting her up silhouette
In amongst the trees with smoke
Smoke backdrop for couple
Couple shoot with smoke
Passionate kiss on engagement shoot

Thanks so much Claire and Aaron for having me shoot your Mt COmpass Engagement shoot! Was amazing!

Vote for the 2020 Wedding Photo of the year!

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    2020 Wedding Photo of the year contest

    Photo of the year contest KateStairs

I’m very excited to announce that if you’re reading this that means that you are now able to vote for the 2020 wedding photo of the year! Each year I run the SvenStudios photo of the year contest as a thankyou for all of my previous year’s wedded couples by asking them which out of all the photos I took on their big day was their favourite and I put them all together for a vote online. The couple’s photo with the most votes by the end of the contest period will win a large framed print of either their favourite photo, or another of their choosing if they have already had it printed.

Vote for the 2020 Wedding Photo of the year!

Voting is now open from the 7th of March through to the 11th of April 2020 with the winning image being that which has the most votes by midnight April 11th. Voting is now closed though and you can see the winners here! The winner of the voter prize of $100 will be drawn randomly from all eligible votes and emailed about accepting their prize. All voters are limited to a single vote throughout the voting period. I’ve put in place a lot of anti cheating procedures so that duplicate votes are recorded and removed from the tally in a number of different ways.

See who won!

It’s always interesting to me what others see in my photography, which is one reason why I run this little contest. The photos that have been chosen by my couples do not necessarily represent my own choices as my favourite photos from my weddings. To represent that I usually put together a little video about what I feel are the best 🙂 That said however I dont shoot for myself! It’s all about what my couples see and value in my work!

Of the 37 weddings I covered in 2019, I’ve had 20 couples get back to me with their favourite photos for this contest. If you’re reading this and you are one of the couples that have not got back to me, or know of a couple that I have photographed and arent in the draw, get in contact wth me and I’ll add your favourite photo to the vote – Just as long as it’s before the end date of the 11th of April.

Get on it and vote! Well you can’t now as the conest is over 🙁 It only takes a few seconds and you could come away with $100 cash! Even though you only have a single vote to give you are still able to help the photo you voted for win by using the sharing buttons to share your photo on your social media in order to get others to vote too! Although it’s not needed to win, the majority of the winning photos in previous contests have also had the most shares, so share it to your facebook and twitter!

The 2020 Wedding Photo of the year contestants!

Al-Ru Farm’s greenhouse
Photo of the year contest NaomiNeil
Photo of the year contest MichelleRyan
Photo of the year contest MaryanneChris
Winner of the 2020 Wedding Photo of the year!
Santorini destination wedding photography
UNder the tree in veale Gardens
In front of the beatiful red ivy
Photo of the year contest JessChris
Photo of the year contest JaneDavid
Photo of the year contest HelenSimon
Photo of the year contest HaileyBrad
Photo of the year contest EmmaSam
Photo of the year contest EmilyAngel
Photo of the year contest ChealseaNathan
Photo of the year contest BrookeLachlan
Photo of the year contest AstridCorey
Photo of the year contest AshBrad
Darwin’s Pride rock
Photo of the year contest AlisonJosh
NatashaSean

Winner of the 2016 People’s choice wedding photo of the year

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Well here we are again, after another year and edition of the SvenStudios people’s choice wedding photo of the year! The 2016 People’s choice wedding photo of the year contest has ended in the most extraordinary way with votes flowing in right up to closing of voting at midnight last night. The leader changed multiple times within the last hour and to top it all off some people were having trouble voting on mobile devices. As a result I have a similar situation that I had last year where I have a total draw in front running images – So I have two winners! Both the entries from Tamika and Blake, and Xavier and Ryan earnt 47 registered votes each – and hence have both won first prize in the SvenStudios 2016 People’s choice wedding photo of the year contest! Congratulations!

Winners of the 2016 People’s choice wedding photo of the year

Xavier & Ryan
Tamika & Blake

As winners of my little contest both couples will receive a framed print of their chosen photo! 😀

As a side thing I’m terribly sorry to those of you who had trouble voting on your mobiles – the issue is directly linked to the unfortunately necessity of having to use a Facebook account to legitimise all votes. Hopefully I can fix this issue for next year edition – the 2015 contest was rife with duplicate votes so I had to implement the system this year to keep things fair. On the plus side I’m confident every vote in this year’s contest were completely legitimate! 😀

Winner of the voter’s prize of $100 cash

To thank all the voters of the images I place all legitimate votes into a pool and randomly select one voter to receive the prize of $100 cash, and this year’s winner is…

F. Farrow

I’ll be sending you an email soon! 🙂

Thankyou everyone for participating, and I’ll see you again next year! 😀