I used the Sony A7IV and the Tamron 35-150mm f2-2.8 lens for these photos. While I am a portrait and wedding photographer, I do enjoy going out to do landscape and wildlife photography. I saw the opportunity to visit these waterfalls on a rainy day and was hoping to see some fog - the weather definitely delivered for me!
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It was Spring in Australia and roadtrip season was in full swing. Dan and I had spent most of our weeks going on adventures, all of which we documented and you can have a look at on The Adventure Truck blog. One afternoon Dan wanted to go to a forest, so we got dressed for pictures, packed Zeke the truck and headed off on a drive. Little did I know he was going to surprise me and actually take me to this beautiful field of yellow flowers instead. When we arrived, I screamed unable to believe my eyes - fields of flowers are hard to come by in Australia and I've never really had the chance to see one with my own eyes let alone run through them and take photos. I was in heaven.
We spent the rest of the afternoon running through the fields, taking pictures and collapsing in the grass with our eyes up in the sky gazing at the stars once the sun set. It was a magical afternoon and one I hope we can re experience this Spring again!
Many moons ago, Dan and I traveled to a barely touched land in NSW's coast where kangaroos are a normal, every day sighting. We stayed in a beautiful home where we had one day of work but a couple of days for ourselves too. We woke up at sunrise to take pictures every morning, watching the kangaroos grazing in the grass. One afternoon we decided we didn't have enough photos of ourselves together so we set off to capture just that.
I don't know why I never ended up sharing this blog post, but right now seems to be the perfect time in between me travelling for work for three months now and missing Dan every day that I'm away.
Almost two years ago now, before our year of endless summer of travelling to the States and Europe, Dan and I decided to call the Australian mountains home. We spent a week curled up cosy in a beautiful cottage surrounded by trees, birds and fog. We spent our time editing, writing, going on photo adventures in the afternoons and cooking dinners by the fire at night.
Thank you for a wonderful week Kangaroo Valley. You refreshed my mind and gave me a breath of fresh air.
all photos are edited with The Essentials Kit for Lightroom.
in the springtime, dan and i set off on a frosty morning to visit the blue mountains. i spoke of feeling over worked and wanting to take more time for myself in my winter blog post and this was one of those instances. life is too short not to get out and do things that make you feel alive. it was wonderful waking up in the morning and not turning on my computer or checking my emails. i took my time getting ready, curling my hair, giving my eyes wings and picking out a dress to wear.
without a rush or a care in the world, dan and i set off and drove with our windows down and the music loud to the mountains. we stopped at a few places throughout the day. all places i've been to before but haven't seen in years. our first and main stop of the day was at the everglade gardens. we wandered through the trees and the manicured hedges stopping to take pictures everywhere. i laid on the grass with the flowers and dan took my portrait.
we set off again and stopped on the side of the road in the suburbs to take pictures with the cherry blossoms that were blooming throughout the town. we made a quick stop at the three sisters for a couple of cloudy photos but went to fossil rock lookout and sat on the highest rock we could find to watch the sun go down.
adventure is something i look forward to the most. there is nothing more that i love than being in beautiful, natural places. to walk around, take pictures and just be happy being outside. until next time, blue mountains.
all day time photos edited with lovestruck & all night time photos edited with disposable film.
in january, your clothes stick to your skin and cracks form in the pavement from the hot sun and balmy nights. to escape the temperature and make the most of the crystal clear days we've been experiencing, dan and i went on a road trip to a beach known for its white sand and turquoise waters, jervis bay. we arrived after a long drive and walked down the forest track to the beach. it was so windy the sand was whipping and stinging our legs. we put our things down and were about to get into the water when a couple of people came up to us to point out a shadow in the water that was swimming back and forth to the shore, which turned out to be a shark! safe to say we didn't end up swimming there.
instead, we set off to find another beach (there are so many stunning beaches in the area), and came across this beautifully secluded pocket in the jervis bay area. we dipped in the water for a couple of hours in the setting sun. when our fingers were wrinkled, we got out of the ocean and sat on the beach watching the clear waves crash on the white sand. we stayed there until we were the only ones left on the beach. family after couple after person arrived and left until we were alone.
on our drive home, we stopped to let a wild echidna cross the road and then watched the bats migrate north at dusk.
we spent an afternoon driving far away. we breathed the mountain air and watched the sun disappear over the tree tops.
i am a flower leaning towards the hurricane that is you.
this was a magical afternoon spent photographing and filming with wonderful friends. we had shot with ivy once before, and we all decided we had to shoot again before she left australia for her next adventure. and so one morning we left home without too much of a plan. we all met up and drove around, passing trees and mountains and empty roads, all leading to a beautiful, desolate beach.
the wind was harsh and the air was filled with a thick mist of salt, making your eyes water and your skin dry. you could see it in the distance everywhere you looked; white puffs leaving the ocean and drifting towards the mountain.
we stayed here and photographed for the rest of the afternoon. it was cold but while we photographed you could almost forget everything around you. the sun shone warm for a few seconds here and there, peeking out from behind the clouds before quickly nestling for day behind the mountains. this is when we shot probably some of my favourite photos ever. a splash of red in an ocean of never-ending blue.
model ivy matheson @ vivien's & next canada
makeup lidija j
film dan @ i make films
earlier in the week emma sabjan, dan and i decided to head to the blue mountains for a day of exploring the forest and taking pictures. we had the best time just hanging out and shooting for fun, here are some of the pictures i took! dan's film is coming soon.
the photos with the waterfall were taken on the rocks all the way at the bottom here!
and some behind the scenes from the day:
dan filming.
feeling dead after walking the hundreds of stairs back up the mountain.
coffee in cafes overlooking the mountain.
printed tees: teepee designs
black bralette: borrowed from jessie mcnaught styling
white dress: miss selfridge
all other clothes from our own collection :)
also, lots of these photos were edited with a new raw preset i just released named after this series:
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dan and i got home from london, greeted with a warm winter in australia. we jumped straight back into life. i shot a wedding a few days after getting back home, and it has all been as busy as ever since. winter was a time of staying up late and waking up early. here are a collection of pictures of the things i got up to.
my friends and i stayed in a little country house in the middle of nowhere.
making fires to stay warm.
trying to pat the cows.
the fire keeper.
our little fire turned big and warm.
staying up to see the thousands of stars blanketing the sky.
waking up before dawn.
a kangaroo in our backyard.
exploring with nat.
the night in the river.
last breakfast on the sunny porch before going home.
dan and i went driving when the night was covered in thick fog.
walking back over the huge hills at the end of our shoot.
jessie mcnaught hosted an amazing fashion event where our
photos were on display everywhere.
madeline opening the fashion show.
the talented bridgette may live drawing an image of mine during the night.
afterwards, we all went to hang out in this lovely outdoor bar for the rest of the night.
my job takes me to beautiful places.
we went to watch some live music.
chereine working her makeup magic on madeline.
my glitter-covered lens after shooting (i'm still finding glitter on the camera weeks later!)
location scouting with dan.
the clouds in the dirt.
i received a lovely surprise in the mail from kiara rose; she made some prints of a shoot we had together!
spending some days sick in bed.
more location scouting with dan on cold afternoons.
one of the things i am most excited about that happened in the winter-time, is that dan and i released a brand new website - Swoon Weddings - where we film & photograph people in love. you can see a whole new set of pictures & short films on our website here:
and it would mean the world to me if you could go through and like our slowly growing
too!
i spent last weekend with my family. we went driving on long roads, went to eat at yummy restaurants and came home to the stars sparkling on our rooftop.
tomorrow i will be blogging the story of how i got started in photography. im scared and excited to share something so personal with you all. for the time being, i will leave you with a self portrait i took against a blank wall the other day with one of my presents from wildfox couture!
i hardly ever post personal things to my blog. this is something i really want to change this year. i want to share with you my thoughts, things as meaningless as tea at midnight to the photos and stories from my roadtrips around the countryside. these pictures might not be much, but i need to start somewhere! i hope you like these small nothing pictures for now. i've been taking photos every day so my next blog post will include even more. if there is anything you'd like me to blog about in particular, please let me know!
this bench belongs to the backyard of my second home by the mountain side and the shoreline in wollongong. my mum and her partner live here with my sister and his son.
this is the view now just outside my old room. the edge of the forest used to be lined with beautiful and lush bamboo trees before the awful council came around and chopped them all down. now my view is dead trees.
pile of bamboo.
dan came to visit me while i was staying in wollongong for a few weeks at the end of the year.
we saw a mini carnival being set up on the way home from visiting my dad's so we stopped to have a look. last time we went to a carnival we ate too much fairy floss and felt sick after going on the same upside-down ride five times in a row. we had the best time. this time the carnival had a few 'try your luck' games and a ghost train, so we ended up standing by the river for a few seconds before heading off.
we stopped and sat in the car until it went dark, waiting for our table for mexican food. it's becoming my new favourite thing to take photos when it's almost dark.
my younger sister learning how to drive.
too windy to take photos.
the beautiful roads my mum, sister and i explored one afternoon.
me by the river, taken by my sister.
soundtrack when driving with dan.
two pictures of me in the front yard, taken by dan on australia day.
lunch dates with dan and realising i need to take more photos of us together.
morning light through the window.
the first photo i took with my 35mm. the day before i was going to shoot a wedding i had my mind made up that there was nothing else that i wanted more but to get a 35mm lens that day. i called up countless of places until i found a camera store that had just one left in stock. dan and i drove into the city just before the store closed and it is now happily part of my little family.
stray cats around the city streets breaking my heart.
my first self portrait in a long time. it was a gloomy day outside, it had been raining non stop for two days by then and my shoot was cancelled. so i thought i should take some pictures against a blank wall.
our cat, dean (named after supernatural), the attention seeker.
Why hello there everyone, I think its time for me to get back into blogging! I've spent the past couple of weeks so so busy with shooting and uni, i've barely had any time for anything else! this week i've had a shoot every single day, starting with today's post.
This is how the little story goes..
Friday morning Dan and I wake up early morning and drive with Mikey down to Sydney airport to pick up his girlfriend & her friend. They're from Queensland and never been to Sydney before, so we decided to take them around to all the touristy spots we could think of (which weren't that many haha). We started off the day at the darling harbour where i took photos of strangers and they took holiday photos of each other. Then we headed to taronga zoo (I haven't been there since i was about ten!) where all the animals looked lonely and sad in their cages, it made me cringe.
But anyway, I hope you enjoy these photos! if you'd like to see what's coming soon, i've posted one photo of every shoot that i've done last week on
my sister holding my old pentax camera
strangers just outside the cave entrance
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today, a random wednesday, the day after the long weekend when everyone is supposed to go back to work, we drove to the wombeyan caves where there is no reception and nothing but grass and roads as far as you can see. we left early morning, i was (and still am) sick and dreary, my head nothing but a daze of clouds.
the road after the highway to the caves was a little rickety one - nothing but rocks and the edge of the mountain. we couldn't see around bends and every car driving past made it feel like we going to be pushed down into the trees and nothingness below.
this week has been one of those weeks when i wake up and just want to take pictures of everything. i miss it so much, taking photos for the fun of it - just to document life so i never forget. today has been a breath of fresh air (even though i am finding it hard to breathe with this cold i seem to have woken up with), i think i needed to get far away from the world, life, city, everything.. im feeling so inspired right now. exhausted and inspired.