Elise and Paul didn’t have a wedding photographer when they had their wedding in 2007. They were young and couldn’t really afford it so they went without. And that just ain’t right considering how much they now regret not having a photographer.

Paul’s granddad passed away a few years ago and like many of the older Australian generation, was a lover of bowls; This is not only a celebration of love but also a tribute to Paul’s granddad.

Much thanks to the Holland Park Bowls Club in surburban Brisbane for letting us have our little photography session there!

Sometimes the distance that separates us is actually the force that pulls us back together. Devon and Katrina have met each other independently on two separate continents before they finally realised they were meant to be together; Devon, from Oregon, USA met Katrina when he was in Australia studying. He would chat with Katrina in her office when he came to visit Katrina’s office mate. A year or so later, he left Australia for Ontario, Canada to undertake a piece of cake University degree, a Masters in Quantum Physics.

Katrina independently moved to a different part of Ontario to find a job, and also to escape from years of studying and tertiary education (she had just completed another piece of cake degree, a PhD in Physics). Katrina was enjoying her life in Ontario, uploading all the photos she was taking while on her travels around the province onto her Facebook page. Devon recognised the sites in some of the photos and realised Katrina was only an hour or so away from him. This was all he needed to invited her on a trip to Niagara falls and the rest, as they say, is history (this history includes Katrina moving back to Australia and Devon following her a year or so later as soon as he finished his Masters). Their future will involve a wedding in beautiful Oregon and a traditional Chinese tea ceremony in Katrina’s home city of Perth, about as polar opposite as I could ever imagine two celebrations being!

2 humans, 1 dog, a sunny afternoon and 10 receptacles of paint. It was always going to be this fun, especially for a photographer like me who is always wanting to try something different.

Carly and Jeff are getting married later this year in the beautiful town of Melaney. Their wedding is going to be pretty much a small ceremony followed by a huge party. I’m not normally a gambling man but I’ll wager that it most likely won’t end like this shoot did. Joining Carly and Jeff in the paddocks on the outskirts Brisbane is their ‘child’, Snaps the dog. He watched on eagerly while everything was happening, enjoying himself a delicious meal of horse poo. Incidentally, the shoot had to be delayed a month or so because Snaps had been mauled by a bigger dog and unfortunately had to go to the Pet Hospital to be cared for. Thankfully, he’s back to full health now and his enthusiasm for freedom (considering he *is* a constantly leashed city dog) was finally attained with almost endless plains to roam.

Big thanks to the lovely Kristen for helping me out on the afternoon and also for finding such an awesome venue to destroy with paint. Bigger thanks to Kristen’s friend Suzanne for letting us use her beautiful property; I had no idea such beauty existed within the confines of Brisbane.