Congratulations Edwina and Tom, it was sensational in so many ways. PS congrats to Jessie and Katie too:)
byron bay wedding photography, wedding photojournalism, good wedding photographer, The Summerhouse , the beach cafe byron bay
(Friday, 11 November 2011)
....have a look, .... you'll see what I mean ... it was a midday wedding on a Friday and the reception was lunch until 6pm.
Brisbane Wedding Photographer, Brisbane Wedding photography, sublime wedding photography, wedding photo journalist,
(Wednesday, 26 October 2011)
Brisbane portrait photographer, Brisbane family portraiture
(Tuesday, 04 October 2011)
Meng and Jerry got married in Singapore and didn't get any photo's. I got a call asking if I could do some portraits of them in their wedding gear now that they were living in Australia. We met at Byron and walked around while people congratulated them. The sunset was perfect and I caught a nice bit of refraction in the last few frames of the day, ' lost count of how often I've been asked if it was a digital effect.
(Thursday, 18 August 2011)
Fantasia, Cape Byron Lighthouse Reserve, 2001 Byron Bay photographer, film photography
(Sunday, 07 August 2011)
brisbane wedding photographer, sunshine coast wedding photographer, happy people drinking and watching a pretty sunset
(Friday, 05 August 2011)
Bree and Kris's Wedding, Brisbane wedding photographer, Sunshine Coast wedding photographer, Montville wedding, Winery wedding, Wedding Photojournalism
(Wednesday, 25 May 2011)
Subject: SPAM-LOW: Laura & Grants Wedding Friday
Hi Stephen, i'd like a quote for my wedding March 2011: Pre wedding at Marriott, ceremony at Gold Coast Chapel, Miami approx 3.30pm. Post wedding pics at 2 locations + photos at Glass restaurant on the Gold Coast Spit. Its a very small wedding with only 11 guests plus bride & groom. I'd love to know more about your packages. Thanks :-) Laura. PS. Grant and I love your website and your work and we look forward to meeting you.
Gold Coast Wedding Photographer, Brisbane Wedding Photographer, Good Wedding Photographer,
(Friday, 15 April 2011)
It's only been once, and was years ago, that I had two weddings on the same day (morning and afternoon) and vowed never again. Katie and Jon's wedding was only weeks away when the offer came in to photograph ex-State Premier Wayne Goss's 60th birthday party.
A long story but I managed to be at both. The wedding photographs are below and Wayne's photographs are still with the Film Review and Classification Board.
Brisbane Wedding Photographer, Artistic Wedding Photographer, Creative Wedding Photographer, Good Wedding Photography
(Thursday, 14 April 2011)
“It's incredible, every time you mention wedding the prices just multiply”. Stephanie had been ringing around to find a photographer for her mid-week wedding at the Registry Office in Brisbane.
“We only want a photographer for at most an hour and we're not after an album. Everyone I’ve spoken to wants more than a thousand dollars, some want thousands!”
“Well Steph people can charge what they like, no worries as long as they tell you up front, but I think I can help you out”.
That’s how I came to be a Stephanie and Max’s cute little ceremony. Max by the way has the biggest hands I’ve ever shaken.
brisbane wedding photography, registry office wedding photography
(Friday, 28 January 2011)
Brisbane wedding photographer, alternate wedding photographer, Oceanview winery
(Wednesday, 08 December 2010)
It’s coming up 30 years since I’d been to Mt Ommaney. On the first working day of 1981 I signed up for a block of land there. Asking price was $11,900, $500 deposit, and interest free terms and my salary at the time was $15k a year. It was dad’s idea, but spooked by the thought of “long” term commitment, I sold it within eighteen months for $19,000 and thought I was clever LOL.
It’s now one of Brisbane’s most comfortable places to live, and it’s also a better than ever place to sign up for long term commitment. Dean’s mum and dad provided the venue, i.e. a backyard with pool and a golf course. And Kimberley’s folks own a restaurant, so they organized waves of lovingly prepared food and drink. Schoolyard sweethearts, they wanted their wedding to be a great big celebration.
Footnote; One of the photographs has been censored due to it’s culturally sensitive nature, but Kimberley and Dean have kindly granted permission for it to be published provided it is put in context.
For those not familiar, it is a timeless Australian tradition for expressing best-wishes between close friends.
It requires the men to imbibe certain amounts of particular drinks the night before the wedding, hop in a taxi and travel around the city selecting appropriate offerings for the lady folk.
Once collected they travel to the place of the women, and when the lights are out approach the house, place the gifts on the steps and ring the door bell, before running off into the night laughing.
brisbane wedding photographer, tips on australian culture, backyard wedding,wedding photojournalism
(Monday, 29 November 2010)
Michelle smiled “Wally and I never wanted a wedding wedding if you know what I mean”.
We were in the backyard she’d grown up in and looking around it was hard not to think it was a tasteful wedding venue. Marquee, fairy lights in the branches, comfy furniture around the lawn, shady trees and lot’s of details, many in black and white, fabulous artistic floristry etc, etc. All the same I knew what she meant.
BTW apparently if you’re interested, Ray and Kate are taking bookings for next year;)
brisbane wedding photographer, backyard wedding, DIY wedding, black and white wedding
(Tuesday, 16 November 2010)
Domomique and Nick take a bow. Ms Polka Dot has selected you guys to show everyone here :)
great Byron Bay wedding photography. wedding photojournalism, Polka Dot Bride
(Saturday, 13 November 2010)
Matt and Sarah's night wedding has been featured on the alternate wedding blog Rock'n'Roll Bride, to see more click here .
My third to be on Rock'n'Roll Bride in the last year so thanks heaps for your support Kat, we must be on similar wavelengths :)
brisbane wedding photographer, good wedding photography, artistic wedding photography. Rock'n'Roll Bride
(Tuesday, 09 November 2010)
To fit all the guests in, there were so many tables that only room was left for an entry level photo booth. This model had just one wall with blackboard and chalk. It was the only entry level thing about Gemma and Jeff’s wedding though, everything else was ridiculously sublime.
PS For an ex State Premier Wayne Goss has a good sense of humor.
* the closing sentence of Gemma’s little sisters speech (everyone loved it )
brisbane wedding photographer, GOMA wedding, Powerhouse wedding, artistic wedding photography,
(Monday, 25 October 2010)
Once or twice I‘ve had a dream, I turn up at a wedding ceremony and the sun has set and everyone is moving off down a dark street, silhouetted by the street light. I figure it’s my subconscious telling me something and so on and so forth. A little way back this dream (sort of) came true.
Though the real version was carefully crafted by Sarah and Matt to reflect who they were and what was important to them. A love story, it was anti-orthodox gothic/grunge meets DIY with a subtext of tongue in cheek cool, set on a rainy night beside the river. Five stars.
brisbane wedding photography, night time wedding, alternate wedding, offbeat wedding photography, riverlife wedding, stamford hotel, subvert the dominant paradigm, stephanie serpentine
(Monday, 18 October 2010)
Domonique met Nick when she was working as a television journalist and interviewed him as he paddled ashore in Byron Bay after kayaking up the coast from Sydney to raise money for charity.
That was in 2006. Not so long ago they threw a celebration on top of a mountain, with cool music, great food, plenty of drink, and their people.
It could have been good feng shui or karma, or whatever, but all the right elements where in the right place at the right time. Even the farmer down the road was over come with bliss vibes ;)
byron bay wedding photographer, anthea amore, seaweed cuisine, the blue hulas, koonyum range retreat alternate wedding photography
(Wednesday, 22 September 2010)
I worked with Olivia when she was in the Queensland Theatre Co.’s marketing team and Cam is a theatre technician when he isn’t being a rock musician. One of the highlights of their wedding was seeing how excited and moved Romany and Cheyenne (Cam’s two little girls) were. It says good stuff about them all as people and as a family.
Brisbane wedding photographer, brisbane wedding photography, alternate wedding photography, subvert the dominant paradigm
(Monday, 23 August 2010)
Gracie and Kun's wedding spanned three days, two countries and six months; One hot overcast day in Australia before last Christmas, plus two hot and steamy days in Singapore a few weeks ago. The wedding photography gods had smiled again. A special thank you to Margaret too.
Brisbane Wedding Photographer, wedding photojournalism, Singapore Wedding photography
(Saturday, 19 June 2010)
3.25pm and the hairdresser was still twirling and fluffing and spraying, etc,etc.. The ceremony was for 4pm and twenty minutes away in New Farm with friday afternoon traffic factored in. What can i do? Nothing because as a photographer who is more interested in the dynamic nature of events than set ups , a tight timeline wasn't an issue for me. Donna and Brett were after a photojournalistic approach not a "fashion" shoot ... so no problems, I just kept clicking.
Brisbane wedding photographer, wedding photojournalism, creative wedding photography.
(Tuesday, 04 May 2010)
I shot a wedding a month ago and I fell in the fish pond to everyone’s amusement. In my defense it wasn’t where it should have been, i.e. sunken into the floor in a room behind a couch … go figure.
I landed on my feet but I spent most the afternoon shoeless. Every time I go to organize the photo’s to post about it, 100 other things come up. So until next time here’s a wedding I’ve prepared earlier, it’s another third anniversary so many happy returns Marnie and Simon. They were married in the backyard at Casurina beach just north Byron Bay on a day made for black and white photography. Those that aren’t b+w are in natural watercolor hues, and again I’m happy to let the photographs tell you the rest.
Brisbane wedding photographer, Byron Bay wedding Photographer, Artistic wedding photographer. Wedding Photojournalism.
(Tuesday, 06 April 2010)
Sophie and Joe's wedding below is currently featured on the worldwide alternate wedding blog Rock'n'Roll Bride.
(Wednesday, 17 March 2010)
I was going to put up a wedding from a few weeks ago, but I’m doing Sophie and Joe’s album at the moment. They are a good looking, modest pair of stylish individuals who ….. look on second thoughts I think I can just let the photo’s tell you the rest.
Brisbane Wedding photographer, artistic wedding photographer. Hillstone, Brisbane wedding photojournalism,
(Wednesday, 10 March 2010)
I usually avoid thinking of the wedding I’m about to photograph, but driving to Kristy and Steve’s it was different.
On the way through Tewantin I called in on a friend who I hadn’t seen for 30 years. She is the mother of a family I stayed with sometimes on school holidays and our lives were loosely entwined for pretty much all my teenage years. Rose showed me a photo album full of old photographs from the seventies and eighties. Amongst them where ones that were either washed out, contrasty, faded, scratched or out of focus. It’s funny though, they all had the same transporting effect and all bought up palpable feelings of long forgotten times and places.
Afterwards as I headed down to Perigian I thought that’s exactly what I want my wedding photo’s to be about. That humble little photo album packed so much emotional wallop and it reconfirmed with me the choices I make and priorities I have when shooting a wedding (and afterwards during editing). In thirty years I don’t want anyone looking at wedding photo’s I’ve taken and say “wasn’t the photographer clever, look how perfect everything is” or “what beautiful light”. I’d much rather they say affectionately to each other “look at us, that’s how we were”. Don’t get me wrong I value good technique and love stylish portraiture, but if I’m not getting the real stuff too, then it’s a missed opportunity.
Real wedding photography, Noosa, Perigian, Tewantin 2008
(Wednesday, 24 February 2010)
It’s good top have Plan B. Sometimes that is nothing just not Plan A. Luckily Jacob and Kim had one when the sky over the border ranges turned black. The boys carried the Chuppah (Jacob had made) up the beach and across the road to a restaurant.
The storm spent itself by the time of the ceremony shrouding the remains of the day in a dreamy mist that came off the sea.
Gold Coast Wedding Photography, The Boatshed Bar and Cafe, Currumbin Wedding, Non-Flaky Wedding Photography, Wedding Photo-documentary, 2008
(Wednesday, 10 February 2010)
Any photographer doing their work properly is bound to get these type of letters. Here's a few from the last couple of months.
Hi Stephen,
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!
I don't think I can thank you enough for the fantastic photos of our wedding. You are amazing, thank you SO much. They are perfect. I have watched that slideshow nearly a million times and its perfect. Its so much fun being able to relive the day watching it, it makes me feel so happy. Everyone I have shown (there have been lots) loves them. You have such a great eye and capture the most important parts of the day - how happy everyone was.
Thank you again... I could just keep saying it. They are perfect and I love them. It was a pleasure to have you there with us. I hope your family enjoyed their holiday too.
We had a great time in Turkey. Its a beautiful place and I highly recommend Kas.
Thank you, just once more.
Hope all is well. Take care and next time we are down your way maybe we can catch up for a coffee.
Kate & Ricky Megee
Hi Stephen,
Just wanted to let you know that we have recieved the cd of all the photos. We cant express enough how much we love them. Everybodies personality shines through, and we feel like we are re-living the happiness and fun of the day everytime we look at them. And we cant stop! I have no idea how we are ever going to pick photos to put in an album, let alone to frame, we want every single one of them.
I have already showed heaps of friends and family, and everyone that sees them wants to know your website and contact details, as it seems that what you do is what everyone wants. One person, a friend of my cousin, said that they are the most beautiful wedding photos that she has ever seen, and she had worked in the industry!
Honestly, we knew your were good, but we had no idea how blown away we would be (in some photos, literally!).
Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you.
Look forward to hearing from you soon,
All our thanks and best regards for a wonderful new year,
Joel and Meagan
Well hello Stephen!
WOW, the photos are amazing!!! We are sooo happy with them and can't thank you enough! Sorry it has taken a while to reply, we have spent a couple of nights playing with the photos :-)
We will definitely be recommending you to anyone we can! We will take your advice on Friday evening and sit down with a fine wine and enjoy! They really did capture the day so well, especially the special moments! So glad you took Jase and I outside during the reception, those pictures are unreal!
Chat soon
Trace
(Wednesday, 10 February 2010)
I’m off to Singpore in early May to photograph Gracie and Kuns wedding. They flew into Brisbane before xmas and we discussed their plans over dinner.
(Wednesday, 10 February 2010)
Late last year I blogged about Kate and Ricky’s wedding at the Villa Botanica in Airlie Beach. I was talking to Todd Hunter McGaw last week and he mentioned he had a wedding coming up at the same venue. It reminded me there was more to tell than I had previously posted. The groom was Ricky Megee which probably doesn’t ring a bell but it should. His story is staggering.
There is his book “Left for Dead” for the details, but basically he gave a lift to some people in the outback and after sharing a drink with them, wakes up in a shallow rock covered grave.
How he managed to survive being lost for 3 months on the edge of the desert without shoes or hat and nothing to drink or eat except what he can find, makes him a legend!, Yet this feat of brains and will power is virtually unknown .
Bear is good, but Ricky is the real thing!
(Saturday, 06 February 2010)
Before things get too busy again I want put up some weddings from a while ago. This one was eighteen months ago and Christie and Jeremy had popped over from Dubai to get married in Byron Bay. They told me they didn’t want to spend all day smiling for the camera or posing but wanted to spend most of their time having fun. That sounded perfect to me.
It’s the second time I’ve posted photographs at the Byron Bay Lighthouse and it won’t be the last. It’s always different.
The wedding was at the Byron Bay Beach Resort which is now mothballed (as a wedding venue) and we got to the lighthouse just before sunset on a cloudy afternoon. A glider soared in the chilly updraft off the Capes’ 120 meter high cliff face, along with the bridesmaids’ hemlines. As the soft blue light faded the glider sailed back across the bay to Tyagarah airfield and we headed off to the reception.
Great Wedding Photography Byron Bay. Tracey Trezise, Wedding Photojournalism
(Thursday, 28 January 2010)
No comment necessary:)
Family Portraits Noosa
(Thursday, 28 January 2010)
As wedding photography is supposed to be about capturing memories I thought I’d test that again and show Georgie and Graeme’s wedding from early in 2007. The original plan was for them to travel with family and friends to Byron Bay from Melbourne. A few months out that plan was reversed and I ended up going down there. Not quiet Melbourne but across Port Philip Bay on the Bellarine Peninsula at Queenscliffe and a glorious winery called Spray Farm.
Melbourne wedding photgraphy, Lathamstowe, Spray Farm, Geelong wedding photography, Photojournalistic Wedding Photography
(Tuesday, 12 January 2010)
Whilst on the subject of Coorabella, a few years ago I was there with Kate and Sam on their wedding day. At sunset a comet appeared in the western sky and a finger moon not quite over head; a cosmic event that was magic.
Coorabella wedding photography, Byron Bay Wedding Photography
(Thursday, 31 December 2009)
Syvanna and Richards’ second wedding anniversary is coming around, so I 've put these up to remember a really beautiful country wedding. Coorabella is an archetypal north coast property, a mix of tasteful eccentricity set amongst rolling green countryside behind Byron Bay.
Soon after their marriage, they both took extended leave from their jobs and went on an open ended trip around the world.
C
Coorabella wedding photography, Byron Bay wedding photography, Byron Bay hinterland wedding, Wedding Photo documentary.
(Thursday, 31 December 2009)
For some reason winter weddings aren’t as popular as summer one’s. It might have something to do with the fact most dresses are more comfortable in hot weather and blokes in suits just have to put up with it. The other thing is the weather is more settled in winter. Having said that Natasha and Warren snuck their mid-May beach ceremony in two days before an east coast low washed Marcoola beach away.
Natural Wedding Photography, Sunshine Coast Wedding Photography, Beach Wedding Photography.
(Friday, 18 December 2009)
I first met Kellie when she was one and even then she had a sense of fun. Somehow she'd learnt to spray whatever she was drinking in her bottle by bending the teat over. Anyone in the room was likely to be hit by a stream of warm milk and when you looked over there was Kel chuckling away in her pram or high chair. She was cute then and she still is!! I've rushed this post as I'm away for the next week and I know old Frank would love to see some of these. Congrats Robbie and Kel, here's a random quick pick.
Rickys, Beauty on the Move CL Weddings and Events
(Thursday, 26 November 2009)
Outdoor weddings can be a gamble with the weather. Kellie and Brian were rewarded for taking the chance. Soft light, mild temps, a view forever and even some dolphins tuned up to take it home. My photography always hitches a ride on the vibe of the day so I had plenty to work with as everyone was elated to share the time and place.
Byron Bay Wedding Photographer, Byron Bay Lighthouse wedding photography, The Beach Cafe Byron Bay, Wedding Reception, Tracey Trezise
(Thursday, 12 November 2009)
I'm lucky I get to work with interesting couples who want anything but to spend their day smiling for the camera. Brett and Haylee were very direct, they said ".... just do what you do, we trust you". Sure thing guys, thanks, and thanks for being so cool about it.
Brisbane Wedding, Stamford Plaza, Brisbane Powerhouse, Customs House, St Johns Cathedral
(Thursday, 12 November 2009)
Kate and Ricky got together with sixty people at the Villa Botanica at Airlie Beach. Everyone was from everywhere but the Whitsundays and everyone was totally awed by it. The Vila is an artwork and was a dreamy backdrop to a memorable day. We all have stories and I've found out a littte about one of Ricky's since the Wedding. You should do a search for the book "Left for Dead", it's a jaw dropping true story and the before and after photo's leave one sctratching one's head.
Airlie Beach Wedding Photography, Villa Botanica, Whitsunday wedding, Destination Wedding Photography
(Tuesday, 10 November 2009)
Shannon and Carl's wedding coincided with two other historic events. It was AFL grand final day, and Brisbane had it's second "once in a lifetime " dust storm in a week. Every aspect of the wedding was tasteful and chic c/- a Paul Hunt masterpeice and great locations, and lot's and lot's of fun. Mother nature ran amuck just after dusk as the city was covered in a "Bladerunneresque" haze.
Riverlife, Tattersalls, Hilton Brisbane, Brisbane Wedding, Paul Hunt, Rock'n'Roll Bride
(Friday, 06 November 2009)