The Girl From Impanema Lights Up The Floor On Saturday Night

Well it was a practice wedding that promised everything & delivered on Saturday night Michelle & Alex are due to be married in Brazil in a couple of weeks time. Sadly most of their Australian friends cannot make it. So why not hold a wedding here a practice for the big event complete with a makeshift father of the bride, a loud objector basing his objection on Brazilians being great lovers & they should share themselves with many women. The ceremony concluded with a stolen kiss to the bride & groom by a small man with very large hair. What better way to go out then exchange rings to the ring of fire.

This is by far one of the best weddings I have covered.

Halle Grace gives a reason to celebrate new years eve every year

Susan & Paul are great people on new years eve at 14.41 beautiful baby Halle Grace arrived into the world weighing only 1580 grams. Paul & Susan asked me to do some baby photographs of this precious little girl. As I have said before the pregnancy baby photographs are really not my area of expertise but why not, lets give it a go. I have included a film clip of the shots. All photographs taken with my 5D Mark 11 with natural light. Happy for any comments on the shots especially from the baby photographers. Again congratulations Susan & Paul on your wonderful gift, I am sure it will not take long for her to make a mark in this world

"Bella" beautiful by the Newcastle harbour

Despite the miserable weather surrounding Newcastle this afternoon the sun shinned in the tent at the Queenswarf Brewery. Playing a mixture of songs from their studio album Gravity and some classic favourites thrown in Karen, Lyn and Kate showed the local audience why they are one of the most popular up and coming acts in Australian country music. Sitting in the audience giving support were fellow country stars Beccy Cole and Sara Storer. Check out the girls website at www.bella.net.au

Songbirds shine last night at Belmont

I was lucky enough last night to be one of the 600 people who got to see 3 of Australia's best female country artists on stage on one evening. Working under the name songbirds Beccy Cole, Gina Jeffreys and Sara Storer demonstrated how lucky we are in this country having talent like this so close at hand (2 of the 3 live on the Central Coast). For me personally it was great to see Gina Jeffreys back on stage again. Playing songs from their own personal collection plus a number of other favourites it demonstrated clearly country music is very much alive and well in Australia. Have a look at some of the photographs below taken from the show.

Ian Moss Shows He Is Still Australia's Best Guitarist

Well he built us up and then he tore us down. In a near 2 hour set last night at the Belmont 16 Footers Ian Moss was by far the king of the mountain.Arriving with a tight 3 piece band Moss was in charge of the sell out crowd. Starting the evening with an acoustic touch Moss moved from telephone booth to choir girl and a nice take on the classic my baby. Moss also introduced the audience to tracks from his new album Soul on West 53rd. Culminating the evening Moss continued with crowd favourites Tuckers Daughter and Bow River. Overall an excellent evening of memories and a style that must surely be the envy of musicians half his age, thanks Mossy for the memories.

It would be unfair to do a write up without mentioning Mossy's worthy support Wes Carr played a solo acoustic set that proved his future in the music is secure with a true master touch to his guitar playing. It would be unfair to draw a parallel to a young Ian Moss playing guitar with a band called Cold Chisel in the early eighties. The highlight for me was Carr's version of the Dylan classic all along the watchtower.

An interesting model

Michelle modelled for us on Tuesday night under the watchful eye of Ric Woods. It was the last in a 5 week course in which I have learn't so much. Michelle was a fun person who had a great ease and comfort in from of the camera. Thank you so much Michelle for your time.

Australia looses one of its finest entertainers

Last week Australia lost one of its finest entertainers. The “lanky yank” as he was affectionately known to his peers died aged 75. I was searching through my archives and came across this photograph I took back in 1986 at a Vietnam Veterans concert held at the Domain in Sydney. Pictured next to Don Lane is Frankie Lane. Both artists were strong supporters of the soldiers in Vietnam having toured there as entertainers a number of times