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planning included  

Telling your love story like it is in the movies

[ couples ]

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Couples sessions across the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and beyond. From $1,299.

[ NOT A PHOTOSHOOT · JUST YOUR TIME TOGETHER DOCUMENTED ]

Slow, deliberate, and real

[ what i'm looking for ] 

Not poses. The way you instinctively reach for each other. The way a conversation drifts off into laughter. The quiet language only the two of you understand.

So we build the session around something you already do. Making pasta badly in a kitchen too small for two people, ending up on the floor covered in flour. A Sunday morning that never quite gets going — coffee going cold, one of you still in bed at eleven, the dog taking up more of it than either of you. Or a drive out of town to see where the road goes.

Some sessions are calm. Some are chaotic. All that matters is that it feels like you.

What I'm really interested in is the space between moments....

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Out in the world

brisbane city couple running through the streets exploring

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on the boudoir page

For two (intimate)

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At home

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Engagements | Proposals

her and her intimate bath scene
intimate couple at home shoot with elk and fir. she is sitting on the kitchen bench with him kissing her on the neck
proposals with elk and fir, image of Carissa and Mark at their proposal in Joshua tree

Where you'd rather be?

[ four ways to do this ] 

It starts with a conversation. Not a questionnaire or a list of poses — just a back and forth about who you are together.

Some couples already have somewhere in mind. Others start with nothing and we piece it together. Where we go matters a little; that you feel comfortable there matters more.

On the day, nothing is posed. We move slowly and let things unfold as they would if I weren't there. You'll forget about the camera fairly quickly, and that's usually when it starts to feel honest.

So where do we go from here?

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Couple running up a road for a couple shoot with elk and fir

A headland, a city street, a back road with nowhere to be. I'll scout it, watch the light, and tell you what time we need to be there — the same planning as a wedding day, just a shorter one.

Wherever you already like being together


[ 01 · out in the world ]

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ELK AND FIR couple session at home intimate shoot sunshine coast

The first flat with the terrible kitchen and the good afternoon light. The place you're about to leave. The house before the baby, when it's still just the two of you and a dog taking up most of the bed.

Making pasta badly in a kitchen too small for two people. A Sunday morning that never quite gets going — coffee going cold, one of you still in bed at eleven.

You don't need to tidy up. Well — do the dishes if you want. But leave the bed.

The house is part of it. Houses don't stay the same either.

[ 02 · at home ]

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[ 03 · for two ]

ELK AND FIR couple session at home intimate baths shoot sunshine coast

Boudoir, for her and for two. Same care, same privacy, same pace — and whether you show anyone afterwards is entirely your call.

An hour that belongs to the two of you

the awakening experience

An afternoon somewhere that means something to you, months before the wedding. Included with every full-day collection.

For most couples this is the first time anyone has photographed just the two of you. Not a wedding, not a

An afternoon somewhere that means something to you, months before the wedding. Included with every full-day collection.

For most couples this is the first time anyone has photographed just the two of you. Not a wedding, not a family thing, not a phone at a birthday. Two people, on their own, before anything changes — which is a strange thing to have never had.

So we build it around something you already do. A back road with nowhere to be, a kitchen too small for two people, a Sunday that never quite gets going. Not a shoot. An afternoon of your actual life.

And it does the practical job too: by the time your wedding arrives, standing in front of my camera is already familiar.

The one before the one

Cinematic

 family thing, not a phone at a birthday. Two people, on their own, before anything changes — which is a strange thing to have never had.

So we build it around something you already do. A back road with nowhere to be, a kitchen too small for two people, a Sunday that never quite gets going. Not a shoot. An afternoon of your actual life.

And it does the practical job too: by the time your wedding arrives, standing in front of my camera is already familiar.

South East Qld 
                   Engagement and Proposal Sessions

[ INCLUDED WITH EVERY FULL DAY Elopement | intimate wedding collection ]

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cinematic couple session on the sunshine coast. couple hopping out of their car with a map
cinematic couple session on the sunshine coast. Man proposing to his girlfriend.



Secret squirrel business, and honestly my favourite part of the job. I'll help you sort the timing, the light, and where to stand so the moment isn't happening with your back to it.

I can be there without being seen, and photograph you both properly straight afterwards while neither of you can stop grinning.

Give me a few weeks though. The nerves are worse than you think and the good spots take arranging.

If you haven't asked yet, talk to me first

[ popping the question ]

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Includes planning

[ afterwards ] 

engagement shoot, couple sitting inside a car cuddling, Sunshine Coast

A quiet record of how you moved through the world together at this particular time in your lives. Years from now I hope they bring you back to the feeling of it — the place you were in, the way you looked at each other, the little rhythms that made your relationship what it was.

Those are the things that change slowly. Those are the ones worth holding onto.

The photographs aren't really the point. They're what remains.

[ say hello ]

That's genuinely where I'd start. Where you're from, what you like doing together, the kind of afternoon you'd want to turn into a session.

So — what does a slow day look like for you?