After a crazy year, Karen and I finally put aside our busy schedule to enter into 2 major photographic competitions.

We can’t hide our excitement any longer! We’ve just won 12 Photography Awards in the past week! Woooooo!

First of all, the big one! A huge congrats to my amazing and talented wife Karen for winning….

The Portfolio Excellence Award Winner in the The Edge Imaging Excellence Awards. She won the category of the Wedding Album New Talent!

Here is the extended version of the award winning album which Karen had designed for Lenka and Putra’s wedding. An incredibly beautiful Queensberry 12X12in Matted Album.




















And now, the 11 awards for the Canon Creative Asia 2010 Awards – 1 Silver and 10 Bronze awards.

Here are our entries…

Thank you all for your fantastic support this year – your referrals, liking our facebook page, your retweets, your comments on our blog, your natural reactions at weddings, your funky poses and your laughter on our photographic adventures. We had a fabulous time with you all.

Have a Merry Christmas and a safe new year and we look forward to inviting you all to our special event we have planned next year (stay tuned to our blog posts!).

Remember TLC’s classic R&B album, CrazySexyCool? That’s exactly what came to mind when I hanged out with Courtney, Luke & their dog Macey in Docklands for their engagement session.

Crazy weather

Super sexy couple

Coolest tattoos.

Three’s a crowd?

Hey who needs a portable fan to give you hair movement when you got natural gusty wind? Ha, check out Macey, she doesn’t seem too fussed…

Oohh hotness! My fave couple shot of the day…

Aww…I love it when dogs get playful… but I’m not too sure about Macey biting on Luke’s nose. Hope it didn’t hurt!

Courtney was an absolute stunner and totally photogenic.  These are my favourite close-up images of Courtney + Macey. Courtney is going to look amazzzzing in her wedding dress.  Cannot wait!

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Ray and Evangeline are the sweetest kind, the quirkiest pair with beautiful hearts who simply adore each other and aren’t pretentious about their faith and passion for Jesus. They are also one of our dearest friends and we were over-the-moon when they asked us to spend their wedding day not only as guests but as their wedding photographers.

Ray and Evangeline are environmental friendly giants. Believe it or not, it’s rare that I meet people who would make the effort to reuse or buy recycled materials as much as possible. I remember staying up late one night in New York watching a show on “the life of rubbish” and the images of houses residing near landfills of filthy rubbish had binned my bad habits for life. I’m now a self-confessed recycling junkie. Anyway, my point is that I was really excited when Evangeline told me she wanted a “green” DIY wedding –Peeled-back labeled jars, 100% recycled paper-pulp wedding invites, vintage suitcases just to name a few. Knowing their personalities, we knew they wanted a unique wedding that represented them as a couple and who they are individually, and this even meant wearing glasses (no-contact lens) on the wedding day! I’m so impressed!

Country-inspired theme was what we had in mind for Ray and Evangeline’s engagement shoot. Think 60s styled suitcases, checkered shirts, Converse sneakers, Wedge heels, and cardboard picture frames sprawled with fancy cartoon drawings set in Melbourne’s Western suburbs. Ray and Evangeline were spoiled with fields of gold Canola flowers and gorgeous sunlight. All credit is due to our talented photographer and friend, Katie from Heart Story who actually found this same sweet spot for our very own couple shoot! More about our couple shoot later.













We had a lot of fun hanging out, swapping stories including my clothes, and watching them kiss in front of our cameras (and they weren’t shy about it!). Thank you Ray and Evangeline for your companionship and being such great models!
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