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After shooting Louis and Jasmine’s fabulous wedding in Perth, Dave and I flew to Melbourne to visit the rest of his family. We had an awesome time visiting with everyone, all of Dave’s cousins, aunts and uncles were a blast to be around. We also had a chance to hang out with friends Jerry and Georgina Ghionis. We not only love their work, but had a great time in Melbourne with the two of them. If you get a chance, check out Jerry Ghionis’ photography, he’s an amazing award winning photographer and Dave and I absolutely love his stuff! Of course, behind every great man is a fabulous woman, and Georgi certainly has that covered If you’re not a member of Jerry’s ICE Society, we highly recommend it. It’s a very helpful tool for any photographer.

Haha… Dave Loooved our rental car… It’s a Holden SS, a brand of car made only in Australia. It sure was a hot rod, but too bad there’s photo radar all over Australia, he never got a chance to take it for a real spin… Oh well, I was fine with that!

After an awesome time away in Melbourne, we headed through the country side to the famous Great Ocean Road. This has got to be the most incredible drive on earth. Winding cliff side roads complimented by gorgeous ocean views.

We were truly mesmerized by the scenery as we drove along The Great Ocean Road and stopped at the Twelve Apostles for a rest. Can you believe how magical this place is, totally out of this world.

Another stop on our trip was to the enchanting Sherbrook Forest. Paths lined with ancient gum trees and tree ferns guided us deep into the forest. Parrots swooped through the air and around trees like kamikaze pilots to keep themselves entertained.

This adventure sure had a lot to offer. Lush greenery, exotic wildlife and my personal favourite… NO bugs!!

Check out this tree trunk! Surely it must be a few thousand years old! Okay, maybe a few hundred, but gorgeous all the same. It looks like something straight out of Lord of the Rings. Do you think the knots look like faces all over it… If only trees could talk!

At first the sweet little parrots of Sherbrook Forest just stopped by for a quick hello, but once they saw I had a few yummy snacks in my hands they came at me from all directions!! As much as it startled me to have them all land on me at once, you do have to admire their beauty and moxie!

Australia was an exiting amazing adventure and we were sad to say good bye, but I guess all good things must come to an end! We were also happy to get back home and back to our studio. Stay tuned to the blog for what we’ve been up to since we’ve been back. We have a lot to blog about!!  An exclusive shoot with a very talented, chart topping Rock Star who’s just returned from touring with P!NK!!! And another fabulous destination wedding on the way, this time Mexico~ OLE!

As we’ve been having an amazing time doing our engagement and family shoots while here in Perth (posting soon!!), we stopped by one of Dave’s fave spots that he was really stoked to introduce me to, the Lancelin Dunes!

Lancelin is located about 100 KM north of Perth and in order to arrive in time for the optimal light conditions we had to wake up at the crack of 4 AM to make the 1 hour drive for sunrise. When we got there it was honestly one of the most dramatically beautiful landscapes I have ever seen. The way the sun rose slowly – crept along and illuminated the sand dunes was just magical.

It was hard to believe that a natural wonder like this was just a hop, skip and jump from the city of Perth and not in the Sahara Desert. We loved photographing all of the amazing textures and patterns in the sand and the contrast of the sun rise and shade really made it feel like we were taking photos on the Moon!

Dave has been coming to Lancelin since he was a kid he told me about how he and his brothers would jump off the dunes and how much fun they had. I had to dare him to do it just one more time, for old times sake!

After we wrapped at the dunes we thought we’d swing by the beach to check out the scenery and maybe go for a snorkel, to our surprise we saw about 8 dolphins right at the shoreline and had to take a closer look. It was sooo amazing to see dolphins swimming in the wild. They were looking for fish, swimming on their backs and playing around in the water, I could almost touch them…so incredible.

On the way back we cruised along some country roads and ended up seeing an Emu and it’s chicks. They’re funkiest looking birds, the cool thing about Emu’s is that they are a lot like Penguins in the way that after the mother lays the eggs, the father cares for the young. It was so cool seeing a father and his babies as we drove along.

Ok, now I thought I had my Aussie animal fix for the trip…but boy was I wrong. Dave took me to Yanchep National Park for our last stop. We made it just in time for the koala tour and I have to tell you we could not believe how freakin’ cute these little guys are. Not only are they freakin’ atomically cute, but they are such fascinating creatures! I was shocked when our tour guide told us that koalas only eat eucalyptus leaves and nothing else…they don’t even drink water. They are so chilled out only because of lack of the energy in the food they eat not because they’re sleepy or…otherwise…who knew?

I almost died from cuteness when we saw the mommy Koala and her baby joey.   All we could saw was “Nah-AAaaawwwwww!”

Finally… A shot Dave grabbed by pulling over onto the side of the road and snapping. The sky is so clear and vivid blue that it comes out almost black when you shoot in black and white… Australia’s like another world.