Kim + Peter … •☾• … Romantic Adventure Session
Hello Lovers. Thank you for being here.
Imagine it’s your tenth wedding anniversary and you feel a bit ‘meh’ about your original wedding photos from way back when. You know - those photos where the Photographer made you both hug a tree or where they shot you ‘through the ring’ and didn’t give you any indication as to what you could do to not look awkward during portrait time? Yep, those photos.
It’s no secret that the wedding industry has undergone immense changes over the past 6-10 years.
Outdoor Adventures, Fashion {!!!}, Painterly Influences and Heartfelt Artistry have well and truly entered the realm of Wedding Photography throughout the past decade - lucky for those among you who are still about to get hitched. Not so lucky if you got married 5-10 years ago and had one of those oldschool, super-established, zero-vibe types behind the camera back in the day who rocked up and were ‘just there’ to shoot to then deliver atrocities, probably on a CD-Rom, and only editing a few photos ‘for your album’. Eeeuw. BTW, beware because there are still a few of those around - avoid!
So, let’s talk about Kim + Peter: ten years married, two beautiful kids. A vibrant, stylish, tasteful and fun-loving couple. Also huge food-lovers, so needless to say Doruk and I loved them from the start.
Being an avid instagram user, Kim couldn’t help but notice the difference between what is possible nowadays compared to what was done for their Sydney wedding photos ten years ago. I was at the airport somewhere when she sent me a DM on insta asking whether we do re-shoots of wedding days. I could tell she had done her research. Kim wanted something artistic, romantic and authentic to capture who they truly are and to not have any regrets regarding her wedding photos. When she showed me some other accounts that she loved {overseas} and told me that they even considered coming up to Brisbane to have us do this, I knew we could create something beautiful together.
This is somewhat personal for us as well. We absolutely don’t love our own wedding photos from each of our weddings in Australia and Germany and can’t wait for our own re-do in Italy or wherever in 2024 for our own tenth wedding anniversary. I was on fire to nail this for Kim + Peter! On a mission!
It turned out that Doruk, Amber and I were going to be around the Southern Highlands with the caravan anyways in November 2019, road-tripping from Brisbane to Melbourne and back for Safire + Alex’ Melbourne Elopement and Ally + Jarratt’s Ballarat wedding.
Kim booked us into Milton Park Country Guesthouse up in the mountains at Bowral and Doruk, Amber and I scheduled our itinerary in a way where we arrived in the area a few days before the shoot to scout that venue and find additional wild roads and scenic spots to create a variety of images with Kim + Peter.
We loved the wild, windy mountain climate around Moss Vale, Bowral and Mittagong and had the freshest Eggs Benedict most mornings at a precious café/shop that I had been wanting to visit in person for years: Bespoke Letterpress {drool-worthy stationary} and loud, majestic, beastly letterpress machines that are hundreds of years old.
Below are some highlights from for Kim + Peter’s Romantic Adventure session with us, starting at the beautiful venue {Milton Park Country Guesthouse} and then leading into some roaming around the country roads and lookouts of Bowral and surroundings.
4 hours of shooting. Gargoyles, Smokebombs, Ant bites {me!}, champagne, mountain fog, drizzle, rays of peachy sunset light trying to break through some dramatic skies… we had it all.
That last photo with the yellow smoke on the country road is my absolute favourite. We had champagne and were all well and truly warmed up and cheerful by then. I think it shows.
SAFE SMOKE BOMB USE
If there are Photographers amongst you, head over to a journal post we wrote a while ago about smoke bomb use and safe disposal:
In a country like Australia where fires have caused so much pain, it is the right thing to do to read up on safety precautions for using smoke bombs and the safe disposal of them afterwards {yes, it’s a bit of extra work, but how could you not}. We see a lot of Photographers using them thoughtlessly, posing risks to themselves, their couples and their surroundings. Don’t be that Photographer.
BOOK YOUR SESSION WITH US
If you happen to be in the same boat as Kim + Peter {and us} and you reckon your wedding photos deserve a bit of a re-do, then contact us to plan a romantic adventure session like this around Australia or Europe. You can find our upcoming locations here, but for the right clients, we’re always happy to adjust our travel plans: www.lovelenscapes.com/locations.
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