highschool sweethearts

Yay! The rest of our engagement photos and story are up on Christine's blog. So go and have a looksie! We're so happy with how our school themed love shoot came out.

My baby brother made this old school looking chalkboard for me specially for the shoot. I showed him a photo of my idea and he just went for it - I never knew he was so handy with tools. But I did know that he an absolute sweetie!

We left the board blank for some shots so we could Photoshop words in and for this shot M stuck down some thickers to replicate the idea of those boards they use in school photos. You know the ones they place in front of the kids in the front row that say the school, teacher, class and year... I've no idea what their called?!

And now I have a cute chalkboard on which to write notes to the Mr ... you know romantic things like "dishes need doing please hun" and "meatloaf is in the fridge" ;)

I particularly can't wait to get this one of M enlarged - I think he looks pretty dreamy :)

thanks again Ms Pobke!!

xx

Kt hearts Pobke...

Christine Pobke + Pobke photography that is ;)

Last Saturday M and I were lucky enough to meet up with our very talented wedding photographer Christine.

Christine came all the way from Canberra (mostly) just to meet us + snap our pictures - how lucky are we? This is the first time we had ever meet face to face! Having only ever talked via Skype or email before & there was plenty of excitement both sides. I mean this girl is both fun AND makes you look like a superstar ... and we think we're pretty fun too ;)

The first time we met she squished into the back of our car with all, I repeat ALL of our props - not even sitting but lying across all our stuff camera cradled in front of her totally excited to be there - I knew then and there I was going to LOVE this girl!

Plus she also helped me get changed in a field, saw my undies eep! and kept on taking photos when I would say 'ooh what about this' + 'one more?!'

yup she's pretty amazing and if you live in the ACT or NSW even you should check her out!

Christine found an amazing field in Centennial Park, Sydney for our engagement photoshoot - I loved it. So much so that I think we will have to go back there and picnic one day!

As we met at highschool and are very much high-school sweethearts we added a little bit of  an old school theme to our photoshoot - school books, old suitcases, chalkboards and an amazing old school desk Morgan picked up from his neighbour THAT MORNING!

totally made the shoot!

Only bumma was forgetting the cute apples we took ages buying that morning in the car during our shoot - the ones with the perfect stems. But they did fill up hungry tummies on the way home.

Look guys the twister quilt !

oh and a mention must be made to my amazing makeup artist Melissa of Melli Cosemetics who did my makeup trial earlier that day. 

I would also really really recomment Mel - her makeup is an artform and you can tell she just loves her job and has a real passion for makeup!

We had a lot of fun trying different ideas and effects until we were both happy with the result and knew it would match in with the wedding theme perfectly.

oooh and I got my foundation airbrushed with a gun too - so fun!

I am just so happy I got to use my trial for something fun too!

Here is our sneak peak Christine just put up!

Thank you Christine we love the and are so excited to see the rest!!  ...

(plenty more to come!)

engagement #7

Just some extra images from the day that make me smile!

Rachel’s pretty braids.
(amazing image taken by Morgan - he has a good eye huh?
– I also love how this is one of his favourites from the day!)
My adorable grandpa (one half of the 'original young lovers'!).Coloured paper in a jar.
Cute shoes.
our congratulations morgan & katie sign
- from here martha stewart.com.k + m = love
roses in the garden.
roses in jam jars.
tied with string (we had these on all the tables).
& more cupcakes – the dodgy ones, but they really do make me smile anyway!
:)

engaged + lots of pictures!

One of my lovely friends (and bridesmaid) Leesa was sweet enough to take some engagement photos of me and Morgan.
We got to spend the night before visiting with them in their little home lovingly nicknamed 'The Shoebox' because it is so small, playing articulate, trying on wedding dresses (for another photo shoot), enjoying dinner together and her husband Sam was sweet enough to sleep on the couch so I could sleep in their bed with Leese, thanks Sam :)
We then spent the day up in beautiful Newcastle at the old baths (doesn't it remind you of pictures of Greece?), at the fair (which just happened to be in town), the park and downtown Newcastle.
of course I love them all and their not even properly edited yet :)

Yup I am tall, but at 6'2" tall M wins
& it's tippy toes for me to reach those smackable lips :)

Changing

It's true, the seasons are quickly changing.
I've been reading many little blog posts floating around filled with the excitement and freshness which comes with the beginning of spring. But for us in the southern hemisphere it's a slightly different story...
The days here are still a little bit confused. One appears really warm and sunny, the next brings with it a slight chilly breeze. The change is subtle - the natural fauna keeps its colour year round but here are there is a tree beginning to loose its colour and starting to drop its leaves... Each morning and evening the air is cold and fresh and you can feel the beginning of winter.
Ugg boots, scarves and jackets are making their way into stores. And that feeling of cozy homely snugglyness is creeping into our world.

I'm hanging on to these warmer days, not quite willing to let go.
At least not just yet.
It has been a really good summer and I'm really going to miss...
Going to the beach with M after we finish work and lazing in the afternoon sun while pouring over Home Beautiful, Holidays on the boat where you live in just your swimmers and sarong the whole time, bare feet, paddle pops, discovering sushi, the sound of a summer evening, sleeping with the window open, going to the beach after church with friends, afternoon sunshine that lingers well after dinner time, car rides with the fam with the roof down, outdoor dinners..
oh boy the list could go on.

But here's to a smuggly and fun winter, - the winter fashions, cozying up with a movie in front of the fireplace, my 21st birthday (oh wow), snuggling down into bed at night with loads of blankets, warm cups of tea, home made soup and enjoying all this season has to offer.

white.

photo by morgan.

I love white on white.
There's just something about it which is so calm and serene.

I'm trying to enhance my photography skills and am now shooting on full manual mode! and it's not as hard as I first thought. Morgan has been having a go too. These shots are unedited (trying not to rely on lightroom fixing up all my shots anymore!) and were taken late one afternoon inside, with no flash. I probably should of upped the ISO, but didn't want them to get too grainy. Or made the f-stop larger to get brighter shots, I think it was on 4.5 or 5.6?
I am finding this site very helpful. It's full of tutorials, assignments (if you want to give them ago) and well written handy information.
So stay tuned for hopefully more improved photography on the blog this year :)

photo by me.

ps. Am I the only one who feels like a cup of tea after looking at this post?

Wedding snaps

Thomas & Britney
Saturday, 28 September 2008

Almost a week after their actual wedding, it's been pretty busy over here...more about that soon...here are some of the shots I took at my first wedding. In most of my shots the exposure was completely wrong, mostly too dark - but thank goodness for lightroom! I sure do have a lot to learn but Sam (the photographer) liked a few of my shots - he's even going to use some in the final album. He says I seem to have an eye for the shot so now it's just learning how to use my camera properly... which I agree with although I've never been so good with that, I always want to jump into the end result :) I thoroughly enjoyed myself and the experience - thanks so much Sam for taking me along. I've decided photography is an area I would really like to get into.

the bridal party (my word those girls are all so photogenic!):

not a very planned shot... but there's just something about the action, the laughter and caringness that's in this shot that I like. I think from memory he had something in his eye..

Seriously, this couple was so cute and such fun to photograph :) don't you think so?
loving those curls too..