I like boats.

Especially if they are italian medieval boats…

These pics were taken during a quick stay at a lovely seaside town in Italy called Cesenatico.  I was visiting a lovely family I used to live with near Venice, 8 years ago.

Here are a couple of pics of the family from another edition of “family portraits in 5 minutes”…

this is Giovanni.  The last time I saw him he was about 2 months old… it is considerably harder to keep him still these days…

this is beautiful Emma who taught me lots of cool italian words when we used to hang out.  She was only 2 then…

and this is the very charming Riccardo, who has grown into a very handsome young man…

a quick family snap – Loretta, Riccardo, Guiliano, Giovanni and Emma…

and the kids all together…

era un piacere a vedere tutti voi ancora una volta! Ci vediamo ancora una volta prima di otto anni…

ciaoooooo!

Benvenuti in Italia!

My next stop after Bavaria was a cute little town in Tuscany called Bolgheri.  After a crazy 15 hour train journey, I arrived… ahhhh la bella Italia!  Bolgheri is a very pretty little medieval town, from which I have very few photos… oops

The area surrounding Bolgheri has lots of Cypress trees.  They are everywhere.  I have many many random photos of Cypress trees, which I won’t bore you with.  Except this one.

and this one, which is of a quite famous stretch of road that goes for 5km in to town and is lined by cypress trees the whole way.

I did however manage to get a couple of quick photos of the wonderful family that I visited here…

This is Alexandra and Laslo.  Laslo is a SERIOUSLY cute bambino.  He totally stole my heart

This is Elisabetta.  She is also seriously cute, but she was clearly not in the mood to have her photo taken by me on this occasion…

nor here with her delightful dad Stefano…

Thankyou for a sublime couple of days in Tuscany Alexandra and Stefano… What a beautiful family you have

sneak peek. Austria. The wedding.

Ok.  there’s a lot of people dying to see a glimpse of this wedding.  (most of all the amazing Justin and Martina who made it all possible…)

So just a teeny sneak peek.  Just a glimpse…. I’m still working on the rest but they are on their way.  I promise

Austrian castle + late afternoon storm brewing + awesome couple = a little bit of magic

the rest of this amazing love story is on it’s way…

a portrait in bavaria

Whilst in stunningly beautiful Bavaria (Germany) a couple of weeks ago, I had the privelige of photographing the Krause family….

This is Benedikt… the youngest (and loudest!) member of the family.  And that’s his big sister Amelie in the background.

and this is the whole family – Benedikt, Silke, Amelie and Martin.

And while the kids stayed with their onkle Berndi for a bit, Martin, Silke and I headed out again to get some shots of the two of them.

this is onkel Berndi and the kids…

Danke Krausis!  Es war so schoen euch wiederzusehen… Ich hoffe, dass ich naestes Jahr shon wieder besuchen kann…!

And so the journey continues… next stop Italy… bellissimo!

Europa ti amo!

Wheeee!  I’m back.  battling jetlag but pretending I’m cool with 4 hours sleep at night and a strange zombie like state during the day… because it was all worth it!  Amazing trip….family portraits in Germany and Italy, a wedding in a castle in gorgeous Austria… a photographers dream!  But mostly the trip was an excuse to catch up with some old friends in Europe and to get back into the swing of speaking foreign languages that never get a chance to be spoken at home.

Internet connections were a little too hard to access whilst I was travelling, and I kind of decided that I wanted to be totally imersed in the experience of being in some of my favorite places.  So, the retrospective blogging starts here.  As you can image I have a gazillion photos to edit and sort through, but little by little I will share some of the European sweetness here on the blog.

So first up, there was Kiel, northern Germany. It is a lovely harbour city with many things to photograph….  none of which I did.  Instead I drove to a place where the farm houses look like this,

…and did a portrait shoot.

This is Thies and Andrea -

they are lovely lovely people, and they live in Kiel and have two gorgeous daughters.

This is Marlene.  (She’s very cute…)

and this is her very cool older sister Greta – (also very cute)

Greta, Andrea, Marlene, and Thies… the whole family… randomly

what a beautiful family… (thank you)

Next stop Noerdlingen, Bavaria… where you see streets like this

and heaps of  houses that look like this…

and if your very good friend doesn’t mind driving you out to the middle of nowhere (Harburg) in the middle of the night, you see stuff like this

(Danke Bernd )

tchuesse!

Tamara and Phil

Although I am currently in Europe (having a FABULOUS time) I thought I should post some photos from the wedding I photographed just before I left for Germany…

Tamara and Phil were married a couple of weeks ago at Walkabout Creek at The Gap.  It was a beautiful ceremony in the bushland settings with a lovely blending of cultures and friends.

Both Tamara and Phil got ready at the Treasury Hotel, so we had lots of fabulous backgrounds for the photos.

We came to realise early on that Phil is very attached to his phone…

One of the most romantic things you can imagine – Phil had his vows translated into Polish (which Tamara speaks with her family) and had spent the weeks before the wedding learning them… the paper was so tattered he had obvioulsly spent a lot of time learning them.

We all thought this painting was pretty funny, but I think Phil added very nicely to it…

there’s that phone again

So we headed over to Tamara’s room to see how the girls were getting along.

I could have photographed Tamara all day… so beautiful…!

We decided to get some photos before the ceremony around the Treasury building…

but wait… better check the phone…!

Arriving at Walkabout creek…

Tamara’s mum and Phil broke bread together in a traditional Polish custom.

Just a couple more photos around the Creek…

off to join everyone else for a great night.

Congratulations to you both!

To check out some more of the pics, click here.

When I next get a good internet connection I will post a couple of pics fromt he 2 family portraits I have shot in Germany so far… so much fun!

Sarah Collyer

This is the beautiful and extreemly talented Sarah Collyer.

I had the pleasure of photographing her for her earlier in the year for her new EP.  It is now out, and being launched on the 22nd of August at the Jazz club in Kangaroo Point.  Do yourself a favour and go hear her sing…!

This is what they say about her -

“With her her sumptuous velvety voice and a delicious platter of honest-to-the-core original songs… Sarah Collyer will set the stage alight with the launch of her debut EP This Way”

“Influenced by the rich sounds of Nina Simone and Renee Geyer, the smooth grooves of Jill Scott and the emotional storyteling and piano prowess of Sarah McLachlan, This Way captures a uniquely hypnotic blend of jazz, blues and RnB.”

Sound like your kinda thing??  Go check it out… sure to be a great night.

Check her out at www.myspace.com/sarahcollyer or find her on Facebook and become a fan

congratulations on the new album Sarah!

the great tassie fog

Just over a month ago now, I made my first visit to Tasmania. It appears that I chose the foggiest and rainiest week to visit.  True.

I didn’t know this but Hobart has the lowest rainfall average of any australian capital city.  It sure didn’t look like it while I was there.  But the fog… well that was something else -

Such a beautiful city perched along the banks of the Derwent don’t you think??!

Despite the unfriendly weather, I absolutely fell in love with the place.

A lot of time I was there I spent photographing landscape projects for an amazing company called Inspiring Place so didn’t end up taking too many shots for myself except these couple…

like I said… it was foggy

The real highlight of my trip was catching up with my fabulous friends Rebecca and Bill and their two gorgous girls Ruth and Grace.  I’ve known Bec since school, and have shared many amazing times with her and her family, but I realised quite astonishingly that I hadn’t photographed them as a family before.  So I took the opportunity of having Hobart as a backdrop to update the family album.  Luckily the rain held out for a couple of hours and we got some lovely shots.

These couple were taken at gorgeous old town called Richmond.

These two girls are not only the cutest little people you’re ever likely to meet, they are also the nicest darn kids I have ever encountered… ever.  They are both increadibly smart, funny and are well mannered to boot (well except for Grace’s notorious bottom burps which seemed to have a mind – and fragrance – all of their own )

We wanted to do some shots around the Salamanca markets, but it was raining when we arrived, so tried somewhere else closeby…

I do love a good old brick wall.

I also love winter because you get to wear wooly hats and stripey jumpers

we stopped for a quick coffee in a very funky retro cafe (with lundromat attached… how convenient!)

and finally got some pics with some of that old Hobart stone wall character at Salamanca place once the rain eased a little…

And let’s face it… what kind of photoshoot would it be if there wasn’t a whole lotta goofy jumping around shots…?

what a gorgeous family…  Any one else wanting family portraits in Hobart – I am available to travel… just try to sort the weather out before I come

International Wedding Photographer…

Things are a little hectic at Studio Broderick at the moment… The big news is that I am about to leave for Europe to shoot a wedding in Austria!!  Wow… this is huuuuuuuuge, and I have been going a little mental trying to keep up with all my work AND prepare for such an awesome occasion.  Is it too soon to call myself an “International Photographer”?  I don’t know, but I’m going to give it a go.  This is after all my second European wedding, so I think it is legit

Needless to say… stay tuned for some European loveliness coming to this blog very soon…

In the meantime, I have a some retrospective blogging to do…

a most unusual engagement (shoot) part two

Ok so, it is obvious that these two gorgeous people LOVE dancing…

but it is also very clear that they love each other… (yay which means I get to photograph their wedding as well!)

I had a few ideas in mind about what I wanted to acheive for this shoot… I was looking at ways to show their personal connection through dance.  I thought it might be hard for them to take my fuzzy direction (“so can you do that jumpy thing again but this time with your legs and arms all kinda tangled??”) but watching these two intstanly interpret what I wanted in such a fluid and connected way was incredible…

These two communicate through dance… no doubt about it… and I tell you,  it was a joy and a privelege to watch.

ahhhh those angel wings got a run for their money that day

but this little angel is looking for trouble…

I should also add that we did this part of the shoot late afternoon on the beach… and there weren’t a whole lot of degrees of warmth in the air… that water wasn’t all too pleasant to be splashing about in. But it was almost as if Jasmine and Cullum didn’t feel the cold… they were seriously like kids on the beach jumping around and playing and I just couldn’t tire them out…  I kept expecting them to say “ok that’s enough” but they were unstoppable… When I thanked Callum for tirelessly jumping all afternoon in chilly water, he said “oh you don’t have to thank us for that… we’re designed to jump about like that – it’s in our DNA!”

this is a bit of a random out take, but I quite like it…

ahhh Callum… putting his heart on the line -

another couple of outtakes…

how cute is that…

Thank you Jasmine and Callum for your passion for what you do… it was such an awesome pleasure to photograph you both.

there’s a some more in this gallery if you want to check them out