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Veruska & Curly ~ Secret Garden Wedding in Byron Bay

And just when I thought there weren’t going to be any more tears they came rolling. 

Like a final hoorah to a year of deeply emotional weddings Veruska & Curly put my emotions to the test with their vibrancy of love toward each other. Curly, a gentle and humble human being opened the door to his life through his open...

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The Light Within You

The light within me acknowledges the light within you. In everything you do and all that you are, you are the light that ignites your universe. 

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Zara & Danny ~ Daylesford Wedding

The Victorian countryside has always given me nostalgic feeling of a romantic pioneering Australia. Maybe it’s from the films I watched as a child or maybe it’s the dry grass and tall white Eucalyptus with the sound of cockatoos harmonising with the cool breezes at the end of the day - whatever it is, this wedding gave me that feeling and it hit a sensitive spot.

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Ash & Alex's DIY Wedding at Henzell's Chapel Mount Pleasant

Saturday the 4th of June 2016, a tropical low came to land on the Sunshine Coast and made it’s way south causing a weekend of flash floods and wild winds and Ashley & Alex carried on like nothing had happened. Well, that was by the time I finally got there, apparently it wasn’t all smiles in the morning of the storm...

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Desert Moon ~ The Big Drift

For many of us in the creative world we often seek to escape the norms and pressures from the fast-paced society. It's not because we're all reclusive, depressed or unable to participate in the competitive structured world, it's more so that we observe and silently ponder the question in every situation, 'how can we do this a different way'...

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Brooke & Dave's Wedding at Baie Wines

Brooke & Dave held a beautiful and relaxed celebration with their friends and family at Baie Wines on the Bellarine Peninsula. With cheeky jokes, wild dance moves, the 'almost' accident of the swinging kilt and contagious laughter running all day it was one of those occasions where I enjoyed being there absorbing the atmosphere as much as I enjoyed documenting the special moments...

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