Wedding - Sarah and Cain

Sarah and Cain were sweethearts as little kids. When they were so little that they still had band-aids on there knees and sun kissed freckles on their noses. They rode bikes and hung on the monkey bars and told each other they loved each other. Neither at the time could have possibly known that they would end up falling in real grown up love, and getting married.







And married they were, in beautiful Queenscliff, surrounded by family and friends, with the sun shining down on them. Their wedding as without airs and graces. Without pretension. Rather it was filled with pure, sweet, real love. That same love they shared in the school yard all those years ago.













I just love the absolute joy on Sarah's face in these two photos. Absolute joy.

























The reception was held at the Esplanade Hotel in Queenscliff, which has one of the best views in the Bellarine area.













Sarah, you know you hold a special place in my heart, and you know why. I wish you nothing but overwhelming happiness.

Everyone can see Sarah and Cain's slideshow HERE.

* Meaghan

Australian Top Emerging Wedding Photographer 2010 award

When I started my photography business, I didn't really know where it would take me. I thought I'd just do it for awhile, see where it took me. I had hoped that it would be successful and that I would enjoy being a photographer. When I started it I had a baby and a toddler, so let's be honest, I was also looking for something to do for myself.

I feel so lucky that those hopes came true. I really love being a photographer. I love creating art, creating memories, capturing moments for people to treasure forever. It gives me so much more than I'd imagined. Photography nurtures my creativity, and enables me to step outside of myself. It also enables me to meet so many wondrous and amazing people.

I feel like I'm extremely successful too, although I don't measure success in money or the amount of clients that I have. I measure it in the joy people get out of my photos, and of their experience of having me as their photographer. Success to me is reading the thankyou cards I get from couples who's weddings I've photographed who are over the moon with their photos. Success is the mother who says she loves her family photos because I've captured them being themselves. Those things make me grin from ear to ear and make me feel like a success.



But it's something all together different when I'm recognised by my industry. I've been nominated in the Australia Top Photographers awards for 2010. Yes you can knock me over with a feather. I entered not thinking too much would come of it, then I found out I had been shortlisted from hundreds of entries and I nearly exploded. You can see the other great photographers who have been nominated also HERE. There's some incredible work amounst the group, so I'm incredibly honoured just to be considered. It's hard to believe something like this would come so early in my career. I certainly didn't think a nomination like this possible when I started my business less than 2 years ago. I'm so so very humbled. (And quietly so excited I'm wetting my pants!)

EDITED TO ADD: I was lucky enough to win, and be named one of the Top 5 Emerging Wedding photographers in Australia 2010 by Capture Magazine.

* Meaghan

Take my hand

From a recent wedding I'll feature shortly.

* Meaghan

Wedding - Brigid and Carl

My friend is all grown up. She's married now, and traveling through south America with her husband. She's all grown up, and she's happy.

It really was an honour to be there to photograph Brigid and Carl's wedding. I first met Brigid when her family moved to Shepparton while we were in high school. That's over ten years ago now. I loved watching her step out of that car in her gorgeous gown, all grown up, and walk down that aisle to her awaiting husband to be.



Brigid and Carl cleverly utilised one of their photos from my sweetheart session with them on their ceremony booklet.











Their wedding was held at Kilgour Estate, just out of Portarlington. I was lost for words as we winded the car down the hill onto their own private beach. Let me just say that again: private beach. This stretch of sand, framed beautifully by breathtaking cliffs, was paradise. I really could have stayed there all afternoon.













The view!





At the reception, Brigid's father found the most perfect words and gave a beautiful speech. My eyes welled a little from behind my camera.



I can't wait to see Carl and Brigid when they get back from their honeymoon. I'm eager to hear their about their trip, to look at photos, and to share the beginning of this next phase in their life with them.



To view Brigid and Carl's slideshow click HERE.

* Meaghan