Since packing up my things and leaping into my new life, I have been fortunate to visit my hometown three times in three months. Each time I return it feels as though i’ve never left, friends fill me in on all the exciting moments i’ve missed and welcome me back with open arms. Adelaide doesn’t change, almost as if the town is promising to forever stay the same as in my memories.

Now that martin and I have become more settled here in Melbourne (with a new cottage house, a furry family member, me with university and martin with work) I have a feeling it will be a while before we return to Adelaide and I can already feel the homesickness. All I can hope is our friends will come and visit us! (hint hint) as we have plenty of room and warm blankets to escape the melbourne winter.

Here are some pictures from my last visit. I stayed with beautiful lucy and had a cozy room made up for me in the basement of their home. Lucy’s family feels like my own and I always feel so welcome in their company. It was such a lovely trip, visiting friends and martin’s family, filming a magical wedding, meeting up with my father and busta and having a well deserved rest in little, old Adelaide.

toasting marshmallows by the warm fire one of lucy’s black cats, sooki. i filmed the most beautiful wedding (i should have the film finished soon!) cool autumn weather cheap (and yet delicious) dumplings for dinner with friends sooki deciding if she wants to brave the rain and explore our two minute microwave chocolate cake feast exploring lucy’s magical garden after the rain sooki followed me and posed for the camera, she’s a natural watching busta (my fathers dog) thoroughly enjoying our leftover pizza

here are some outtakes from my shoot titled lover of light.

the series has been featured online at spook mag (also with a small interview): http://www.spookmag.com/2012/05/14/lover-of-light/

model: Ellie @ London Management Melbourne
stylist: Sinead Hargreaves
make-up artist: Kellie Trotman

I am very excited to be filming a beautiful wedding this weekend in adelaide. I fly out this afternoon for a few days to visit my hometown and capture the love between mel and guy on their special day.

To get everyone in the mood, I’ve decided to release some pictures I was lucky enough to take late last year when I had the chance to second shoot a wedding with White Wall Photography. A huge thank you to White Wall for the lovely opportunity to be a part of Sophie and Kevin’s wedding.
I was mainly filming the day, these are little pictures taken between filming and stills from the video.

we experience little wonders in our everyday and never spare a thought.

travelling thousands of meters above the ground in something made by mans hands. just steel and nuts and bolts and wires. so much weight floating effortlessly through air, and all trust on two mens shoulders.

my love of flying grew from a very young age. to me it means coming home, whether that home is a place, or person, or feeling. my heart fills with wonder and hope, oh and maybe a little butterfly-like nerves from time to time.
while suspended in air you have a chance to catch your thoughts, a guilt-free moment of stillness in the busy lives we lead, a moment to yourself to think of all the little wonders.

my father once told me to live while you’re still young. before your body is old and frail and your mind has taken to rational thinking.
try to do something reckless in your everyday, whether it may be flinging your body from tall places to feel the wind in your bones, riding a motorcycle through the harsh outback or climbing a skyward reaching tree until you can no longer see the ground.

live while you’re still young.

we are an army of young creatives, and we’re going to take over the world.

i know I’m not the most popular photographer out there on the internet, and i’m certainly not famous. to most people i’m a nobody, but i’ll never give up on my dream, and i want to prove that you don’t need a million ‘fans’ or ‘likers’ or ‘followers’ to make your dreams come true.

i’ve entered a competition that changes lives, that would sky-rocket me towards my goal.

could follow this link and like my entry for the SOYA competition?

http://www.soya.com.au/entrants/10159305

i’m not looking for the most votes, the competition is not based on ‘likes’, i’m just looking for enough to get me noticed by the judges.

i want this more than i can express in words.

http://www.soya.com.au/entrants/10159305

she sways in the cool evening wind, it’s howling through her bones, and shivering in her soul.
a soft doe-eyed girl living in the shadows and cracks of the rain spattered pavement.

model: elli kolsky
make-up: emilie patricia
styling and pictures: claire alice young