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I’m so excited to tell you all that the brand new Photobat shop is up and running! This has been in the works for a few months now and promises to be one of the best additions to the photobat wedding experiance. From now on, all Photobat weddings will be uploaded to shop.photobat.net so you can send your family and friends to see and purchase your wedding photos.

And if that wasn’t cool enough, you can now make one off payments for things like portrait sessions and wedding booking fees.
Head over to shop.photobat.net and view the sample gallery to see just jow cool it all is!

I just received in the post the 2008 / 2009 edition of Bride Tasmania. It’s always fun to get a new magazine and the first thing I did was sit down at the nearest cafe and flip through to see the latest ideas, stories and designs.

The latest Photobat Ad

Peppermint Bay’s spread features a few of my shots from Scott and Paula’s wedding

Morilla are featuring my shot of Monica and Craig

And 4Kombi’s are using a couple of my shots also from Morilla are featuring my shot of Monica and Craig’s wedding

I had a great time at the Rivers Edge Boutique Bridal Expo on Saturday. It was a very foggy morning and cleared up to a typical Tasmanian winthers day with no clouds in site.

I had a really simple display, well, I put some albums on the coffee table and some picture on the wall and just sat next to the fire. Not a bad position to be in.

As part of the day, the guys from HeliAdventures Tasmania dropped in a Bride and Groom. I reckon that arriving by helicopter would be a spectacular way to arrive at any wedding!

After the arrival I did a few shots of Gareth and Kellie at the venue, just for a bit of fun. I’m wondering how many people will see these shots and get annoyed for not being invited to their wedding! Don’t worry, you didn’t miss out, this was just play, no real wedding happened, Garreth and Kellie are officially not married!

Thanks again to Jane at the Rivers Edge for the opportunity to spend the day out there talking about what I do. It was also brilliant to meet all the other exhibitors, who offer some amazing services and products. For Example, Annette and the firls from Fluer’s in Prospect, for the flowers.

The guys from Rushmere Heritage for their bridal cars.

And, of course, the dog bridesmaid!

How cool is Cygnet? I hadn’t really been there before, I had passed through to shoot that Anthony Morgan shot, but never really into the main town.It was even cooler last Saturday because of Benny and Rachel’s wedding, both of whom were in Vikashni and my bridal parties. So it was going to be a really great day to see how these guys did the getting married thing. As predicted it was quite different and the most casual wedding I’ve been to, plus one of the biggest.

So to start, the guys had some spectacular looking and tasting breakfast at the Lotus Eater Cafe, followed by general shenanigans back at Nick’s place while they were getting ready.

I love this shot of Benny and his Dad.

Rachel and the girls had taken over a friends place for the night and were quite calm when we arrived, and proceeded to stay quite calm the whole getting ready process. The house was buzzing with people while Vikashni did a little bit of make up for Rachel. (Yes, Vikashni does very good job with make up, she’s even properley trained in how to do it. Let me know if you need someone to do good and nice make up!)

Off to the ceremony location which was typically natural and earthy to suit the couple, with a hint of farmlife thrown around, mostly int he form of the cow poo all over the ground, which apparently Rachel was shoveling away the night before.

The ceremony was fantastic, quite funny and very sweet. Some great music too, especially the Augie March song “There’s No Such Place”for Rachel’s arrival. Rachel’s dress captured her personality and earthy style while Benny looked quite himself with a black shirt showing a hint of the stripy thermal top underneath.

After the official part of the wedding was all over we headed off to the beach in dimming light for some shots with the bridal party. The cricket set came out and no one got wet! The area was fantastic, such a nice part of the world and there was no shortage of amazing locations.

Thanks again Rachel and Benny for letting me capture your day. It’s always fantascic to do a wedding, but being able to create some images of some really close friends on one of the most important and fantastic days of their life is really something really special.

More on Wednesday…

The latest Tasmanian Life came out yesterday and features some of Kala and Michaels wedding shots. They won’t see them until the get back from their honeymoon in the US, so i thought i’d put a photo up for them. Hope you guy are having a great time!

Last Saturday saw Lisa and Rod’s wedding in Launceston. Everyone of the wedding party and guests were down from Melbourne for the day. Apparently they had heard there was no where to have a good breakfast in Launceston, we set that straight by sending the girls (and one boy) to Elaia and the guys off to the Basin cafe.

Lisa then had her hair made spectacular at Hues and all pretty at Pure Body

During the week i had heard good things about Em Flaherty from Green Apple Designs, and finally got to see some of her fantastic flower work at the wedding.

Everyone got ready at Rosevears Estate. Everyone looked really fantastic.

Rod had his son Owen as his bestman

The ceremony took place at sunset with amazing golden light lighting up everyone.

Barb Youd did another great job in personalising the ceremony for Lisa and Rod, and even spent a couple of hours the day before the wedding helping sort out all kinds of airline chaos.

Rod’s dad forgot to shave and I was requested to get a close up as a reminder! He did manage to pop off for a quick shave while we were taking some photos.

Light was running out so we only had a very small time for some shots in the vineyard, but the light that we did have was magical.

How amazing did the vineyards look, Rod has a vineyard in Victoria, so these shots were just perfect to show his love of wine.

Thanks again Rod and Lisa for the fantastic day, we had a really good time shooting it, I hope Port Douglas has been relaxing and look out for somthing special in the mail when you get home!

Another Saturday another drive south for a wedding. This time we had the fantastic opportunity to photograph Kala and Michael. We had a brilliant time on the engagment shoot so i was really looking forward to the day, and it didn’t dissapoint. Early start with the boy and then a few shots of Michael in his music room…  he’s quite talented (check out his website here or even his wikipedia entry here). So his music room was somewhere he really spends alot of time, i was instantly taken by his organised bookshelves!

Then off to find Kala and the girls, (one of whom you may recognise from here ). As usual, it was a contolled sense of chaos in the house full or people coming and going.

Did i mention that the house had heaps of good spots for photos?

And then we went outside

It looks like these girls have seen a ghost. I can’t tell you how much fun we had on the day, everyone was so much fun to be around and so unstressed.

The Hobart Town hall was the place for the big event and what a fabulous location it is. A new place for me and i hope to get there many time in the future.

How is that for a dip? It didn’t go to plan in the rehearsal but went off with out a hitch in the ceremony and the crows went wild!

As Michael’s life is music and opera I had to create some more dramatic shots… how could i not, Michael does serious so well.

Plus there was some play time with the rest of the bridal party.

Plus Idon’t think the Marine Board Building on the waterfront has looked so good in a photo.

And sorry Kala, Michael laughed when he saw this one and i love it, so my apologies!

There were too many great moments from this wedding, i haven’t laughed this much in a long time. We were truly honored to be there to record the day and I can’t wait to get the rest of the photos to you guys!

We had such a fun time on Saturday shooting Michael and Kala’s wedding. I had to post this shot straight away.. more to come on Wednesday!

Oh, and it seems that the website and my email were down for a couple of days. All is good now and i’ll get back to those emails soon.

On Saturday, Zakk and I had the great pleasure of shooting Dan and Elise’s wedding. It was fantastic to have such and easy going couple, even when the rain came it was no problem!

Like always i caught up with the girls and guys before to get some preparation shots. First it was off to Convict Cutters for some shots of the girls getting their hair done. The guys and girls there did a fantastic job, and I’m sure it wasn’t because of the bridesmaids is one of their stylists!

Dan and the boys were out at Dan’s parents place in Evendale. I noticed the contrast in cars in the garage as i arrived, the Chrysler and the beat up old van. I had no idea the beat up old van was pretty much the 4 groomsman and a family icon known as the Tonemobile. I love different kinds of wedding cars, and it’s great to have a car that has a special meaning .

Elise and the girls had their final preparations at her Grandparents house, which has the most amazing garden. All the girls dresses were made by Elise’s mum, were only finished the morning of the wedding and looked fantastic.

The wedding was out in Longford at the little catholic church near the sports grounds. The place was packed with family and friends. After the ceremony we headed off to Richmond Hill, a property near Cressy that I had never hear of before and very glad I know it now. The place has so much character and hundreds of good spots for photos. Just as we arrived the rain also arrived. It didn’t really dampen the spirits, it was gone before we knew it and let us get some great umbrella shots.

we went for a walk into one of the fields to get the last of the light. I was a little excited by the light and location and didn’t even mind laying on the wet, cow poo infested grass to get these shots! (special thanks to the guys at Daisy Fresh Drycleaning for getting the stains out!)

It all ended with the warm and fully decked out reception out at The Happy Chef at Jessen Lodge.

Congratulations again Dan and Elise, I hope Thailand is fantastic and I’ll see you when you get back!