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.'

Blue Mountains Photographer - Hangin' with the wildlife

I know there's a few American and Canadian friends who read this blog so I thought I'd just post a pic of one of our Antipodean furry friends especially for them.

This mob of kangaroos were on the beach and then later came to lie around on the grass in front of our beach house, so we lay there with them for an hour or so just watching them. They really are beautiful and unusual creatures.

They have REALLY amazing feet... (Click the images to make them bigger)

They also really like apple... 

 And a good snooze afterwards ....

(How sweet is that?}



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Blue Mountains Photographer - Between a Rock...

I have long had a fascination with geology. Rocks are beautiful. This one was at the beach on the south coast. I love the colours and layers within it.
Rocks are a lot like people.

Blue Mountains Photographer ~ Catching the light

So I headed away from the mountains and down to the coast. It was late when we arrived. We drifted off to the sound of the surf on the beach.
I woke just before dawn and grabbed my camera, walking down the few steps to the beach in my pyjamas.
There were kangaroos nibbling the grass in the half light in front of me.
Down on the beach, the sea was calm and over on the horizon, the sun started to appear.
I snapped on the beach for over an hour but this is my favourite shot because of the other photographer standing there on the headland who arrived to do the same exact same thing. We never met and he's just a black figure in this shot... just another like minded individual who was up at the same time, waiting to capture the sunrise like me.