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This past Friday night, the Memories Function Centre held an open night and fashion show to showcase their reception venue and a number of local wedding suppliers. We were asked to come along and take some photos of the night, and we thought we’d share a few of them here with you. Held at Memories Function Centre, Wallsend
It’s been an absolutely crazy year for us here at Living Light Photography since taking it on full-time 15 months ago. Here’s a little snapshot of where we are wrapping up before Christmas.
So, to celebrate these milestones, we’re going have a little last-minute Christmas giveaway. Are you ready? THE GIVEAWAY The prize will be one of our very first limited edition art landscapes, titled “Isolation”. It’s valued at $600, and printed on the highest quality canvas at a size of 30 x 12 inches. You can see it below (obviously it won’t have the watermark on it). Trust me, it looks awesome! We’ll also have a prize open only to our past and future clients, a $150 Living Light Photography voucher. Keep it for yourself or use it as a gift! AND if we get to 750 fans before we draw the prize, we will also give away a $250 Living Light Photography voucher. PLUS, if we get to 1000 fans on or before the 23rd December we will give away a massive 40 x 16 inch version of “Isolation” as well! This baby is valued at $800. So to increase the prize pool – please suggest us to your friends!
HOW TO ENTER You’ll first need to be a liker of the Living Light Photography page on Facebook (not just this post). Then post a comment on this competition page. Tell us what you’d do or where you’d hang the landscape if you won. You’ll have the option of posting the post and your comment to your Facebook wall, and we’d appreciate it if you did. Please also suggest our page to your friends if you like our photos (the link to do so is under the logo on the page), as we’ll be adding in the other prizes if we hit 750 and 1000 fans. We’ll draw the winners on December 23rd at 3 PM, with our Living Light Photography camera durability tester Thomas drawing them from a hat. If you’re local to Newcastle, you’ll be able to pick it up before Christmas (gift idea anyone?). (If you’re not, we’ll post it to you that afternoon, but there’s no guarantees it’ll arrive before the 25th.) Merry Christmas everyone, and we hope you have a great holiday. See you next year! Show 40 comments I’d hang this above my dinning room table and invite you over for a beer to enjoy it Congrats on such a great year! well deserved:) A really special friend of mine would love this photo! She’s a sailor, I imagine she would hang it where she’d see it all the time. what a warm light. Gives me a great feeling to look at this shot! My parent’s lounge room is lacking a feature piece after the last one fell off and the frame smashed. So, this would look great! My husband LOVES these types of shots! I mean LOVES! So… it would be for him. He also loves sailing and a lifelong dream we plan when we retire is to sail around the world together… Thus, this would take pride of place in our lounge room, on the feature wall, central. To remind us each and every day of a dream we will one day fulfill. I’d hang it in my lounge room! It would be going above the television in our new apartment so I can remember my Newcastle friends whilst I’m in the big smoke. I knew you were super busy, I just didn’t realise you were THAT busy! ‘Isolation’ would look perfect on the wall in our loungeroom, opposite my chair so that when DD1 is screaming at me, & DD2 wants a feed, I can imagine I am on that yacht in complete isolation. This would go super nicely in our back room. Been looking for a long print to put on the wall behind our dining table. I think we’d have to get a new dining table if we had a print like this…. otherwise would be like fancy meets bogan ‘Isolation’ woudl be my perfect down time from school ….on the large wall next to my desk where i can swivel my chair…STARE..DREAM and have a little NOn reality of marking books and programming future lessons….. turn on my relaxtion cd (one of many)….. I think I’ll actually have to fill in a window to put this beauty up….but that’s okay, it would be like having a permanent ocean view here in the western suburbs! I’ll give it to someone I know who would love this photo! In the very unlikely event that he refuses to take it, I’ll hang it on the one and only wall in out house that is big enough for it! I would hang it on the feature wall in our new lounge room which is destinctly lacking an appropriate landscape artwork to complete it. Congratulations on an awsomely busy year as a full time photographer. Sounds like the move was a great idea. Jodi congrats on a great year, the shots you took of bonnie and nicks wedding in august were amazing Well after I’ve got you another 100 fans and greatly decreased my chances of winning, I’ll bet the odds, win and hang it in our living area. So many choices, could be in the lounge or living room, but most likely in the bedroom. What a morning starter, waking up and looking across to a window-like image of possibility! Sunrise or sunset, it doesn’t matter which direction you take cause its going to be a new experience…. isolation, its as pleasant as you want to make it. I would hang it up on a wall in my new house, it will go really well in my ‘water theme’ of photographs, im trying to achieve Congrats on a great year, and getting a studio! I would put ‘Isolation’ in a prominent place, probably the lounge room (so it would be a talking point), and have it remind me that I’m like a little boat in the vast ocean, but God still looks after me. My mum saw this photo, loved it and begged me to tell you that she’d love it to hang above the lounge in her lounge room! :0) This landscape is going right above our bed. We like to isolate ourselves from children in there and the canvass is as close to anywhere isolated we’ll be going for awhile. Nothing like a little spice. Plus you can see it when you walk in the front door, a promise of the isolation evening brings. Ha ha…I would ask some friends of mine who coincidentally happen to be photogtraphers to make suggestions as to where I should hang it. Love your work guys, I hope you make your targets : ) I would love to hang Isolation in the future baby room!! Would have a lovely calming effect, if not on a crying baby then on me! Congratulations on a successful year. Ohh and cant wait to Trash the Dress! I would hang it in our lounge which is oh so beige and boring right now. I can think of at least 4 places I could hang this canvas! My walls are all very boring and white at the moment! On the wall opposite my bed – can you imagine waking up to that every day? Sounds like a beautiful way to start the day I would hang it on my bright blue wall in my lounge with lovely colours it would constantly remind me of how lovely and peaceful the beach is, and how far away i live from it. Congrats Josh and Giuls on winning all your awards. Your business has grown so much! We would hang your beautiful photo in the dining/living room so all our family would want to move to the coast. Above my study desk. That way I can always remember there arent just four walls but a bright world outside it! I’d hang this in my lounge room above the television, so I can look at it all the time and dream about being in ‘isolation’. We unfortunately don’t have any free wall space … but I do know a well deserving and appreciative friend that would love it and would look fantastic on their lounge room wall! I would hang it in my lounge. I love to listen to music and I love to relax on my favourite couch and just get lost in thought if this amazing picture comfort me in my most favourite room in the house … A perfect pic that I can replace an old ugly painting Dave has up on the wall that I have been wanting to throw out for years but keep being told ‘it is better than a plain wall’ – I disagree. I love this image! I’d hang it somewhere prominent where everyone that saw it could marvel over how each brushstroke is used to such photographic effect… and I could imagine that I live near the water again. I’ve got the perfect spot above the stairs, not quiet sure how Adam would get up there to hang it yet but we’ll cross that bridge when we win! Maree such serenity captured… I have watched your work since our wedding and it only gets better and better… i love your view on the world. congrats to you both on the success of your business! have the perfect spot in our lounge room for such a wonderful piece art Leanne would like to hang it where i have my trashy tiger frame. If Leanne removed my tiger picture I would get a court “marshall” to have it reinstated and then hang your gorgeous photo in the “living light” that shines through my back window onto a vacant wall which is screaming for a panoramic ocean shot…I’m not “Joshing”…I’m serious. At the moment, an escape into a yacht at sea would be just wonderful…for the days when it’s hard to keep going. I’d hang it on our dining room wall, where I can see it from the kitchen and lounge, and put my fave chair where I can just watch it and go sailing… We would put hang it on the wall in our dining area so we could think of peace when there is food flying everywhere. love the image Josh – I think the mid wives at the Newcastle Private hospital would love to be able to sit in between going and helping the mothers give birth and be wisked away to some serenity – So If I got it thats were it would be hung I’d hang it in our living room to remind myself to get away from the noise of the stinky coal trains and go enjoy the beautiful scenery of Newy. Or maybe focus on the yacht and meditate myself to Isolation when the baby comes and won’t stop crying! I think the boys at 180 Glebe are in desperate need of some classy wall hangings (the upside down cowboy painting needs to be sent back to the wild wild west:-p). Congrats on a fabulous year guys:-) At Living Light Photography, we’re really proud of our wedding albums, and our favourite by far is what we call our ‘Matted Art Album’. Our supplier for these is Queensberry in New Zealand, who without a doubt make some of the best albums in the world (this one is a Queensberry Duo), and we thought it was time to share one with you. So here’s some photos of Maree and Adam’s album, which they received today and are enjoying looking through. The box for this album alone feels like a work of art, and then it opens up to reveal the album inside a velvet drawstring bag. Our favourite cover is a leather that is just so soft you want to wrap yourself up in it, and you can see it in the ‘onyx’ colour below… although as a guy, I normally just call it black. This particular album style blends the timeless matted wedding album with a few modern twists; such as the photos being set in slightly from the edge of the matt to give an elegant framed look, and the ability to have photos run right to the edge of the page. This coupled with Giuliana’s elegant designs, means that this is an album that isn’t just for you, but rather also for your children and your grandchildren down through the years. Right down in the last few photos, you can see a 7 inch mini album. This is an exact copy in digital pages (no matts) of the whole album, and is just perfect for parent albums. There’s also the option for a slightly smaller 5 inch mini album, which is the perfect size for a handbag. We hope the photos below show you just how gorgeous this albums is. If you’d like to see the whole design, pop on over to our Facebook page where we’ve uploaded all the layouts in this album: Facebook – Maree and Adam’s Wedding Album. UPDATE (Fri, 3 Dec 2010): Queensberry got in touch with us and said they thought this album was hot enough to feature on their I own a Queensberry page on Facebook. Tremendous compliment. (But to be honest, we knew they were going to and we asked them to hold off until Adam and Maree got their album.)
Show 3 comments Lovely work Josh – beautiful album Thanks Nigel, but you’re the ones who turn it into something that’s lovely to hold. test Given that I have a ton of weddings to blog, I hereby dub today ‘Wedding Wednesday’, and we’ll see how many weeks I can keep it up for. Now that we’ve just tipped over into summer (although you wouldn’t know it at the moment), here’s Julia and Joel’s wedding from the very end of winter. We kicked off the day at The Art House in Newcastle East, where Julia and her family were getting ready. The ceremony was held at St Columba’s Church at Adamstown. From there, we had photos in at good old Newcastle Baths, but this time there was a bit of difference; it was the one week of the year that they empty them out to clean them. So the lads and I hopped down into the sand and we got a little different perspective. From there, it was up the hill to Fort Scratchley, where we had a little walking tour of the grounds for our photos. It’s a spectacular spot with so much variety. Then the reception was just across the bridge back in the hall. We did duck out briefly during the reception to try something new; a long exposure night shot with Jules and Joel in it. I was really happy with them, but they have to be seen BIG to see all the stars and the moon. Since they’ve had their photos for quite a long time now and we don’t yet have up a section on the website for this, I have this testimonial from them to share with you:
And that, dear readers, is why I love this job. Thanks Jules and Joel, you’ve been an absolute pleasure to work with. Hope you enjoy the photos…
Show 1 comment Testing out new Facebook comments. So Nai and Dan are getting married this coming Saturday, and we got the engagement session in at the last minute. We picked a spot, good old Nobbys Beach in Newcastle, which is just lovely around sunset time. When we arranged it, they actually asked if could some shots in the water. I’m always up for something a little bit extra that makes for the personal touch, so I was ready to go. Packed swimmers and stuck ziplock bags over my flash on a s tand – must have looked ridiculous. After a few ‘traditional’ beach shots we headed down to the rock pool, where the tide was as low as I’ve ever seen it, and all three of us jumped in the water. Well, I actually think they may have pushed each other, and I just got down low. The pelicans didn’t seem to mind I had an absolute blast, and super keen for these guys’ wedding this coming weekend up at Forster. Beach time! 
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if i had the pleasure of winning this comp, i would hang it up in my room for a few months until my partner gets back from overseas and we get our own place together, at which point it would get hung up in our very first house together
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looks very nice