The Batblog by Photobat | Portrait and Wedding

Great wedding, we shall have some more images up in the shop by the end of the week.

Ok, a quick little post becaue i’m so behind in blogging. There will be more focus on posting a heap of images over writing heaps of words for the next couple of weeks… That said lets jump into Mandy and James’s shoot.

This was fun. Remember back when it was stinking hot a few weeks ago, that is when I caught up with James and Mandy for this shoot. Mandy’s nice bosslady Susan from Jim Hughes and Sons gave her a voucher that she received at a charity auction, she’s a very nice boss! 4 dogs is always a challenge, but I’ve never backed down from shooting lots of doggies and it was another win. These guys seem to like their animals, lots of dogs some sheep, I think there was a horse, or that may have been on the way, anyway, lots of animals (and comers too for you grammar nuts!).

I also managed to get lost finding their house, but getting lost is always fun when you find an awesome location to take photos at (and get splinters)

So, it seems that we are a little bit busy and have let the Batblog slip a little. Be assured we are getting many cool shots for many clients, so much so that they are taking all our time up. We will have some more images up soon of all things Photobat but for now I have to run off and see even more clients! Have a good weekend and check back next week, i’m sure we will squeeze a shot or two up from Sam and Pip’s wedding on Saturday.

I’m not sure if you can tell from these photos who works in the city and who works in the country…

I met Lou a little while ago, in Mr Roberts’ grade 7.2 classroom the log cabin in at high school. That was a while ago, now she is about to tie the knot with Hugh. But before all that it was time for a quick engagement portrait session. Engagement portraits gives couple opportunities to have photos together that probably won’t happen on the wedding day and like all portraits we shoot, we try to put some extra meaning into the sessions. Lou and Hugh just bought this fantastic house, when we did the session there were still a heap of boxes laying around waiting to be opened. You could feel the excitement in these guys (after the camera nerves disappeared!), new house and about to get married.  This is going to be a fun country wedding!

It’s all systems go here at Photobat. Infact, we have more systems going than we thought we had! So many wedding and portraits on the go and more to look forward to.We are really pumping out some work at the moment so may be a little slow in getting back to you but we will get back to you.

Being busy is good, but I would like to assure you there is room for more!

Anyway, a little story about the shot above of Cooper and Jack.

Their parents Naomi and Neville ran away many years ago for a holiday to Tasmania before heading back to Melbourne for their engagement party, of course the holiday included a bit of eloping and the engagement party turned into a surprise wedding reception.

We love to keep up with what our clients are up to and one year we lost track of Naomi and Neville. We looked and searched but they just disappeared, until a couple of weeks ago when Naomi rang to day they were coming for a holiday and bringing the boys.

They boys are great and it was lots of fun re connecting with these guys, finding out what has been going on where they moved to and more importantly getting their details so we can keep in touch.

So, if you have moved, please let us know. You never know when we may surprise you with something in the mail!

Irene is from that big country called Canada and had a heap of her family down for the big day including a couple of sisters who turned out to be good bridesmaids Ben’s sister rounded out the trio of Bridesmaids adding some height to the party! The girls all got prepped down at the Lauceston Seaport, a great spot with Lush Hair to do the hair and Mud Club to do the make up and Peppers to get ready at. A general wedding tip, keep all the getting ready places close together as it makes the morning flow much easier.

Ben and his mates got up to all kinds of foolhardy activities in the morning including the unfortunate incident with the Sebel’s luggage trolley. These guys and girls were up for fun the whole day, and they didn’t disappoint.

Following the ceremony in the church it was into the stretched Hummer and off up the river to relax, do a bit of bridal party photography, play a little tease the photographer and a have a few drinks. We stopped a few times before getting to the always well set up Cataract Bistro for the reception. Of course, I was still after the killer shot the wrap up the day nicely and investigated around a little. I’m always up for challenging myself to find something different at places I’ve already photographed before and the last shot was a shot that I had not seen before but was glad to see it with Ben and Irene and that fantastic sky.

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Just a quick post this morning, I shot these out at the Bagshaw’s place last weekend. It was really fun coming up with new ideas for the kids to do for the shoot. They were fantastic to play with!

I ventured all the way to the window to get this one. The orange building is one of Launceston’s tallest. Has a little shop called Myer in it but they seem to be gradually shrinking. I swear when I was young there were more floors…