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I used the Sony A7IV and the Tamron 35-150mm f2-2.8 lens for these photos. While I am a portrait and wedding photographer, I do enjoy going out to do landscape and wildlife photography. I saw the opportunity to visit these waterfalls on a rainy day and was hoping to see some fog - the weather definitely delivered for me!
My Tasmania Instagram diary which I found sitting in my drafts for the longest time, so I thought I should finally publish it. There are a few other blog posts sitting in my drafts which I will be sharing over the next couple of weeks :)
If you haven’t already, I have a free photo editing app out which I use to edit all my photos on my phone now, it’s especially handy for when I’m travelling and taking lots of snaps on my iphone for these blog posts and Instagram. Find it here: FREE Digital Film App which you can download for iOS here.
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Last week Dan and I made our way to Tasmania to capture a photo + video wedding. We decided to take a few extra days while we were there to be able to explore a part of Australia we’ve always wanted to go to. We landed in Launceston early Wednesday morning and spent our day checking out various lookouts before checking into our beautiful Airbnb house which was on a farm in the countryside. From there onwards we spent our week exploring Lake St Claire, photographing the gorgeous backyard wedding that we will share soon, visiting Cradle Mountain National Park and Freycinet National Park. I absolutely adore Tasmania, there is so much green everywhere you look and sometimes it really feels like you’re the only people in the entire state. I would love to come back soon!
Check out my vlog from our week in Tasmania below and please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already! I release 2 new photography related videos a week.
All photos edited with my Amalfi Lightroom Preset!
It was Spring in Australia and roadtrip season was in full swing. Dan and I had spent most of our weeks going on adventures, all of which we documented and you can have a look at on The Adventure Truck blog. One afternoon Dan wanted to go to a forest, so we got dressed for pictures, packed Zeke the truck and headed off on a drive. Little did I know he was going to surprise me and actually take me to this beautiful field of yellow flowers instead. When we arrived, I screamed unable to believe my eyes - fields of flowers are hard to come by in Australia and I've never really had the chance to see one with my own eyes let alone run through them and take photos. I was in heaven.
We spent the rest of the afternoon running through the fields, taking pictures and collapsing in the grass with our eyes up in the sky gazing at the stars once the sun set. It was a magical afternoon and one I hope we can re experience this Spring again!
Many moons ago, Dan and I traveled to a barely touched land in NSW's coast where kangaroos are a normal, every day sighting. We stayed in a beautiful home where we had one day of work but a couple of days for ourselves too. We woke up at sunrise to take pictures every morning, watching the kangaroos grazing in the grass. One afternoon we decided we didn't have enough photos of ourselves together so we set off to capture just that.
I don't know why I never ended up sharing this blog post, but right now seems to be the perfect time in between me travelling for work for three months now and missing Dan every day that I'm away.
Almost two years ago now, before our year of endless summer of travelling to the States and Europe, Dan and I decided to call the Australian mountains home. We spent a week curled up cosy in a beautiful cottage surrounded by trees, birds and fog. We spent our time editing, writing, going on photo adventures in the afternoons and cooking dinners by the fire at night.
We set off on our drive through the fog.
Sipping on coffee, no sounds other than birds and water falling off the nearby mountains to be heard.
We arrived at our cottage in the mountains just before dark. We unpacked all our things, including all the good food we bought at the fruit market that morning.
Exploring our new home.
The next morning we woke up early to find our cottage enveloped in a blanket of fog.
The house spider.
Using my beautiful new Colibri Straps.
Breakfast.
Watching the kookaburra's fly from tree to tree every morning and afternoon.
Making and tending to the bonfire on chilly evenings.
I caught a shooting star while taking pictures of the millions of stars. I love staring at the sky when there is absolutely no light pollution around.
Sipping coffee at sunrise.
My outdoor editing space.
Afternoon adventures.
Spending our last night playing Monopoly.
Thank you for a wonderful week Kangaroo Valley. You refreshed my mind and gave me a breath of fresh air.
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all photos are edited with The Essentials Kit for Lightroom.
I've always loved documenting. Having my camera dangling around my neck and taking it with me everywhere, snapping. A bird, some fallen leaves, a stranger I pass on the sidewalk. I never want to forget a moment.
Dan and I flew to Melbourne for a job one weekend last year, and this was no different. We took a day to explore the Great Ocean Road and spent the rest of our time in Melbourne exploring the city and its suburbs in between jobs, meetings and shoots.
We spent our first evening exploring Fitzroy Gardens.
Late nights driving through Melbourne.
Early mornings. This was our view from our apartment balcony, the whole city covered in fog.
We spent an afternoon after a job driving around the suburbs and stopping on pretty streets to take pictures.
Our hire car for the weekend.
Behind the scenes of a collaboration shoot with Caitlin May. You can see all the final photos in my blog post Rose Tinted.
We photographed and walked through the rain.
Flying back home.
all photos edited with my The Essentials Kit Lightroom Presets!
while i was in melbourne a little while ago, i got to catch up with caitlin may and shoot with a group of talented ladies. we met up at caitlin's house in the morning where jan worked her magic on hair and makeup on aimee, then we headed off to our location. while we were shooting, it rained and the sun shone. we pat beautiful horses and ran up and down the middle of empty roads.
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collaboration with caitlin may photography
makeup janice wu
model aimee @ vivien's
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photos in the field edited with the NEW! dulcet photoshop action | black and white images edited with paris lightroom preset
in january, your clothes stick to your skin and cracks form in the pavement from the hot sun and balmy nights. to escape the temperature and make the most of the crystal clear days we've been experiencing, dan and i went on a road trip to a beach known for its white sand and turquoise waters, jervis bay. we arrived after a long drive and walked down the forest track to the beach. it was so windy the sand was whipping and stinging our legs. we put our things down and were about to get into the water when a couple of people came up to us to point out a shadow in the water that was swimming back and forth to the shore, which turned out to be a shark! safe to say we didn't end up swimming there.
instead, we set off to find another beach (there are so many stunning beaches in the area), and came across this beautifully secluded pocket in the jervis bay area. we dipped in the water for a couple of hours in the setting sun. when our fingers were wrinkled, we got out of the ocean and sat on the beach watching the clear waves crash on the white sand. we stayed there until we were the only ones left on the beach. family after couple after person arrived and left until we were alone.
on our drive home, we stopped to let a wild echidna cross the road and then watched the bats migrate north at dusk.
in the new year, i was sent by the au review to shoot pyramid rock festival in phillip island, melbourne. the day after we got to melbourne & our ten hour drive, we woke up early and set off for another two hours to phillip island. the day was hot and the roads were long, but we listened to music loudly in the car, put together snacks and drinks for the festival and drank way too much coffee until we finally got there.
we drove through the grounds, passing hundreds of tents and roaming teenagers already drunk at one in the afternoon and got around to the back where we were lucky enough to have vip camping by the sea. i picked up my photo pass and dan and i went off in the heat to watch some music.
at night, the air was polar and we would crawl back to the car and sit in complete happy-tiredness. the bands would sit in groups outside and play soft music, talk into the early mornings and it felt like i was in the movie almost famous. i felt at home. constant music in the background somewhere and anywhere, sun in the middle of nowhere and taking photos.
french horn rebellion, they were like monkeys running up on stage - completely awesome!
spiderbait
masculine spiderbait crowd haha
the vasco error
the herd
view from our camping ground
dan and i. i loooved the grass at the island, which seems like a silly thing to say, but it was some nice grass.
guy on a wheelchair being held up to the sky in the middle of the mosh pit
sparkadia
photographer taking photos of the crowd
gotye
gotee, goti-yeah, gote-yer
cloud control
the living end headlined the first day, they were probably my favourite act of the whole two days. they are absolutely amazing live.
second day of the festival:
calling all cars
grace woodroofe, who thought everyone who was at the festival lived on the island.
illy, they had the most energetic and crazy crowd
peeking over the fence from the vip bar
the getaway plan
graveyard train. i totally recommend listening to these guys!
drapht
taking a break in the middle of the heatwave day
boy and bear
the panics
bluejuice
last but not least, scissor sisters who played through midnight and welcomed us into the new year.
we set off for melbourne late one morning
icebergs
too many kms to go
fuel
open land for forever and ever
just after we passed the border between nsw and victoria
night driving into the city
our hotel room after the festival
upside-down world
exploring the graffitied laneways, taken with my iphone
ice cream & coffee at night by the beach in a random suburb
someone's cd collection by the window
gig venue hunting
the very awesome brunswick st
visiting the docklands on our last day
over the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year, dan and i went on an adventure to melbourne. we set off for the ten hour drive late one morning. we travelled all through the day, passing broken down cars, dusty towns and forever and ever fields of desert grass, mountains and trees. the sun had started to set by the time we reached the border between two states and finally by the time we reached the city, tired, delirious and excited it was dark and late. we went out for coffee in a close by graffitied laneway, came back to our temporary home in the middle of the city and passed out.
our week in melbourne was amazing after that. i spent two days with my camera glued to my hands and fingers shooting the pyramid rock festival at phillip island, the blistering heat was overwhelming during the day and when the sun set, the island was made of ice - but nothing would stop me from seeing the world through my viewfinder, shooting strangers dancing around in panda suites and musicians running around on stage. the two days were mine to capture, and capture everything is all i did. but i'll write more about this story soon..
when we got back from the loudness and constant music all around, we chose to stay in a suburb just outside the always-moving always-rushed city of melbourne. every day we looked at a map and picked a random suburb that had an interesting name or a lovely view and spent the rest of the afternoon exploring the little alleyways and long streets, the quaint shops and food-baby restaurants.
the second half of twenty-eleven was a crazy rush for me and my camera. i spent almost every day shooting, every night editing, every morning sending off cds to clients. while some days in melbourne i rested from my camera and was happy it wasn't hanging around my neck, the days that i did shoot everything i saw were the best.
one thing i'm going to attempt in 2012 is to do a 365 with my
. sometimes i will take specific photos for that day, but its mostly to motivate me to post a new picture every day for you all. and also, i haven't forgotten about free curve friday, its about to start all over again next week!
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