My first ever wedding shots

I shot my first ever wedding on the weekend just gone. I wasnt the official photographer so the stress was off me a bit. He had left by the time I took all these so they are all my suggested poses,locations and shots. These first 2 are my personal favourites. So beautiful and so romantic. I am a sucker for romance I must say!
The one above reminds me of an advert for diamonds or perfume.....ahhh love sweet love.

The "sunkissed" look. This was exactly what I wanted to shoot. So great when it all goes to plan. Perhaps would have liked a little more sunlight on the top of their hair but the light was failing fast as it was already past 8pm.
This last one is perhaps a little corny but I thought it was to pretty to pass up. I love how delicate her hands look in his and the jewellery ads such a feminine touch.

There are many many pics but these are a few of my favourites. Thankyou to the beautiful couple for not only letting me be part of your day but for allowing me to shoot what I wanted to shoot.

My first Decemeber shoot

I decided today that I would muck around with some makeup again and with the help of some friends who let me do anything to them, this was the result.

I am still very partial to black and white shots but I have thrown a couple of colour shots in here and there because the makeup was quite bizarre. Got to love "red stripe clothing" in the city. That is where I got the lovely goth black and a few other things.

Last night, December 1st 2008, we were witness to something quite special.
The Universe actually smiled upon us.
The eyes were created by Venus and Jupiter and the crescent moon completed the smile.
This is not photoshopped except for the colour of course. This was actually how it was in the sky.
I hope some of you managed to see this and smile back as I did.

Monkey yoga

This little cutie is the baby orang-u-tan living at Perth zoo. I thought he was worth watching for a little while as he seems to be a bit of a poser already. Flexible little bugger isnt he!

Dr sketchy's anti art class - boys boys boys.

This is my favourite photo from this shoot. So much so that I have also posted the black and white version also. I looks so much better when viewed large.

I went along to my very first "Dr Sketchy's Anti-art class at the Brisbane hotel on Monday night.

These fabulous classes are run on the first Monday of every month and it is for all the people who like to sketch live models. Some of them were really good and some were, shall we say, not so good. But everyone has fun. Nice little jazz track playing in the background or the dimly lit room. I was in heaven. Got to have baileys and shoot some pics! I had asked(ok, well begged) the lovely girls who run this If it would be ok for me to take some snaps instead of sketching. Stay tuned you may even see my snaps on their website!

We had two lovely boys as models on this night and thankfully if they minded their pictures being taken they didnt say so. The picture above is one of my favourites from the shoot. I love the veins on the shoulder and the arm. Of course, who doesnt like the look of a nicely buffed torso!

Of course for those of you who like backs, I couldnt disappoint you either.

This one underneath I quite like. Has so much emotion to it. On the one hand person a has decided to leave and already has turned his back and is walking away. Person b is holding on. Defeated but gently holding onto that last bit of hope. Could be friends or brothers. Ok Ok I know perhaps I am overthinking my shots and perhaps I am the only one who sees these things in them. Some photos do seem to have a story to tell you though be it true or fabricated.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I did taking them.

Pole dancing

I have been shooting ideas for my latest tafe assignment.

One of the chosen subjects were pole dancers. These girls are amazing with the strength they must have just to a) get in some of these positions and b) to manage to hold still for my camera for up to 8 seconds at a time! and c) to make it look so darn easy!

Whist it might sound like an odd way to spend an afternoon I actually had a lot of fun!

I presume to do this for a living one would have to be fairly young as I cannot even bear to think about what gravity would do to me should I try and hang upside down!

I have had a little play around with some collages too so I will see if I can pop them in here for you to look at also.

Angels and Demons.

DEMONS

TodayI spent the afternoon doing two of the things I love most.....makeup and photography.

The picture above is one of my favourite shots of Daneeka from today. I think maybe my favourite from all of them today. Below is one of my favourite shots of Jamie. Some others are further down in this post.

ANGELS

Now for those of you who dont know me very well, I am in the beauty industry and have done makeup professionally for about 20 years. I am also lucky in that I have a sister who is a hairdresser so she came along today to do the hairstyling for me.......a job she did perfectly.

I was wanting to shoot two very different models. One who was to be all dark and scary. Kind of demonic and evil looking. The other I wanted a beautiful, etheral look. Bright and pretty yet still kinda funky.

The models were 2 lovely young girls who work with me in my business. Thankyou to Daneeka, who is my dark demonic creation and also one of the therapists in my centre. the picture below is straight after I had done the makeup. We were still waiting on my sister getting to the shop to do their hair. I LOVE these contact lenses!.....scary scary stuff.

Thanks also to Jamie who is my bright, beautiful creation and also my work experience student.

Some of her shots are below. She was made for black and white pictures I think....or it could just be the fact I love black and white pictures!

It is so much easier to do this when you have models who will happily let you turn them into anything and will put up with contact lenses, glitter in their eyes and lipgloss in their eyebrows!

So, once again, thankyou girls.

There were many great photos but I will try to not put up too many. I would love to know what you all think.....that is if anyone actually reads my blog!

Finally I also took a few shots of them together.....I wanted an agels and demons look to it and as it turns out the girls didnt let me down. I like the shot and how completely opposite they look.