I may be biased, but I happen to think a good photo of your kids would make a great Father’s Day present. That’s what Sarah & Ben decided anyway, and they picked the first photo underneath as their favourite.

These photos are taken down by the lake at Valentine, a spot I think I’ll be using again.

After a quick coffee at Bill’s Bakery, we headed out along the Warner’s Bay esplanade for their engagement session. This lovely couple are flying high serving our country in the RAAF. Their love really does give them wings. (Okay, I’ll cut it out now.) Enjoy the photos!

Sure, they got married in early August, but for Geoff and Fiona (remember their engagement session) it was much more a spring wedding when judged by the weather, the flowers, and the smiles on everyones faces.

Their ceremony was held at Jesmond Uniting Church, (which was absolutely packed out) and then we ducked across the road to Jesmond Park for a few photos before heading off to the reception.

A good time had by all…

(A brief aside, Jo – one of the bridesmaid’s – had her Polaroid camera out. If you’re not in the know, they stopped making Polaroid film this year, and so these will be some of the last of those classic shots. Check the last photo below for a bit of a memory.)

Hope you enjoy the photos.

This coming Saturday I’ll be heading a few hours out west to Mendooran (near Dubbo) to shoot Davo and Megan’s wedding. Fortunately for me, they were able to do their engagement session in Newcastle – otherwise that would have been a bit of driving.

Well, it was almost impossible to stop these two from cracking up, and I’m sure all the goofing off didn’t help either. But it means what you see below is all natural, and you can tell they’re quite the happy couple.

For these photos, we first headed out to an favourite place of mine, wandering around amongst the trees and the fort up the top of King Edward Park. Then we went and tried out the abandoned shack on Scenic Drive in Merewether. I’m sure that door should be locked… but it wasn’t.

Enjoy these photos, and you’ll be seeing this couple again very shortly.

As promised in an earlier post, here’s Steve and Lauren’s wedding photos.

From the start of the day, I shot Lauren at her parent’s place, while Dave Payne followed Steve as they took various forms of public transport to arrive at the ceremony, over at Islington Baptist.

For our photo session we just ducked across to the road to Islington Park. As you can see, there’s a few traditional shots, but then they wanted photos on the playground! I’ve since been told by my photo lab guy that that’s the first time he’s seen that.

Thanks to Steve and Lauren and their bridal party for being a pleasure to shoot, and thanks to Dave again for 2nd shooting.

Enjoy the photos…