Blue Mountains Photographer ~ Wedding

Shooting a wedding is where I have to be bossy... 'stand like this, shoulders back, big breath, look down the lens, and a little smile, look at your wife, and look at me... look at meeee...' (Kimmy)...

I'm not naturally a bossy person.  I prefer to let the organic moments in a wedding take over so that there's space for intimacy as well.
But on the other hand, this huge responsibility is yours... to give the couple their most precious memories and so being 'bossy' or directing the moment is totally imperative because if you don't do that, you miss so much.

The real trick is finding the balance between that organic moment and being too directive.

'Just ignore me' is my best advice at a wedding... because it allows the moment to take over, the intimacy to show and the beauty of two people truly in love to shine and that, for me, is what it's all about.

Blue Mountains Photographer ~ Hanging with the wildlife ~ again

This is a brown Cuckoo Dove which arrives on our water tank every so often. He waits for me to feed him (or her, I'm not sure) and hangs around long enough to be talked to and admired. So this time when he arrived, I took a little time to take his photograph.
If I had a choice I'd spend all my time hanging out taking photographs of wildlife but it's not entirely practical at the moment with a busy life and business!
I love this bird's eye - such beautiful colours and structure... as a friend commented,  'There could be a whole galaxy in that eye.'