Here's Amber at a wedding last week showing a curious bubba their photo on the back of her camera:
And here's me doing reflector duty at the same wedding:
It might look like I've eaten a few too many cupcakes lately... I'm 17 weeks pregnant and due in February!
Don't worry everyone, I will still be around till January. Then I will be taking some time off while Amber and Anita expertly run the office for a few months.
Diane xx
We have returned from our exciting week in Sydney! We stayed in a beautiful apartment near Darling Harbour where the awards took place. The weather was lovely (better than Perth from all accounts) and we managed to fit in a bit of shopping and sightseeing.
We were very sucessful this year earning a total of 6 awards including one Gold! It was a very exciting time for both of us. Here's the photos that the judges loved.
First up Diane's gold winning print from a wedding she assisted Peter Hasson at earlier this year:
There were over 2,400 entries and only 65 golds so it was pretty exciting! Diane ran around like a headless chicken after it was announced as she was so happy.
Next up is Amber's adorable kids photo taken at Kristie & Adrian's wedding, she's an expert in crying babies, this one got a silver award:
Diane got this funny photo of a groomsman ironing at Katie & Michael's wedding in January (silver award):
Here's a shot that has featured on the blog a couple of times from Elisha & Niall's wedding that earnt Diane a silver with distinction award:
Amber got another silver with this quirky kid photo from Pia and Rod's wedding in January, the judges debated this image for a really long time:
Lastly Diane got a silver for this adorable photo of baby Michael:
A very friendly photographer from Canberra called Thierry Nguyen took this photo of Diane moments after her photo got the gold award:
Amber received her Associateship ribbon at the awards night along with our friends Jane Bennett and Erica Serena. We were also excited for our lovely friend Tina Urie who gained her Master of Photography.
We really have to thank Anita our Photoshop whiz for all her help with our entries and Paul Maietta from Fitzgerald Photo Lab for his advice and wonderful printing. Also our wonderful framers Norm and Blair from Preservation Framers for their matting.
Thank you also to our generous clients who were happy for us to use their images in the awards.
A very tired but very happy Diane & Amber xx
Here's a funny shot Amber snapped of me at a wedding recently, I think it's hilarious!
Diane xx
Our poor loyal blog readers, we are sorry for the lack of posting over the past week. We have been so busy taking photos we haven't had time to share them!
We hope this super post will cheer your heart!
First up we have some adorable newborn baby boys, both belonging to wedding clients from a couple of years ago and cute as a button!
Introducing baby James:
And baby Joshua...
Next up a couple of engagement shoots. Damian & Tracy are getting married in May, isn't she going to be a beautiful bride? They are sooo in love, you can just tell!
Peter & Jessica met Amber down in South Perth for their engagement shoot, the light was lovely at the end of the day and this shot has a nice retro feel.
Their wedding is in August at the Rosehill Country Club... looking forward to it!
We had a lovely informal family portrait at Harold Boas Gardens with our ex bride Fran who had her sister and neice here to stay from the UK for a couple of weeks. What a great way to remember their time together...
We also shot three weddings over the weekend and they will be blogged later this week and early next week. Here's a sneak peek:
Gemma & Nick at King's Park...an awesome super relaxed wedding with an amazing dress.
Aimee & James at Millbrook Winery, don't you just adore the feathery detail on her dress?
Dale & Carl at Matilda Bay, amazing lighting! We even got some lightning photos which you will have to wait to see.
Wow, finally finished the super post! Check back soon for the weddings to come.
Diane xx
We are super excited to announce our newest arrival...
Two spanking D700s... how exciting!
The boxes are super stylish:
We love a bit of embossing:
The camera is awesome and features all sorts of good stuff too boring to list here! Techno geeks might like to check it out here
We are looking forward to superior images especially in low light.
For those who are interested here's a quick list of the rest of the gadgets in our camera bags (all cameras and lenses are Nikon):
D200 cameras (x2)
Lenses: 105mm macro f2.8, 35-70mm f2.8, 14-24mm f2.8, 85mm f1.8, 20mm f2.8, 24mm f2.8, 50mm f1.4 (x2), 180mm f2.8. As you can see we do have a preference for primes over zooms and they have to be fast! Minimum of f2.8.
Flashes: SB800 speedlight (x4)
Tripods: Manfrotto 055 (x2)
Other stuff: Tamron roller bags (x2), cable release (x2), flash synch cord (x2), Sandisk compact flash cards (zillions)
We have to say thanks to the team at PRA Imaging who managed to get us the D700s at the old pricelist. Due to the falling Aussie dollar they have gone up over $1,000 recently!
Stay tuned next week for two super stylish weddings we will be blogging on Monday.
Diane & Amber
The Perfect Wedding blog has featured some of our photos...
Unfortunately not many people speak Dutch so here's a dodgy Google translation:
