I find that wedding photography in Perth is usually about finding some shade and avoiding the harsh summer sun. Yet in the winter it is a different story, the light is a lot softer and there are some beautiful colours to find. Han and Kim are a fun loving couple and love to laugh and it didn’t come as a shock to find that all of their family and friends were just the same. to top it off the bridesmaids had flown in from Singapore especially and they had caught up with their partying all week. We did the bridal shots at South Perth foreshore. The Perth City views are popular with wedding photography but I wanted to include some of the great shapes and light that come with working with architecture, in this case the narrows bridge. There is one thing that I love about photographing weddings is that they are a unique event that is never the same as the other.
I think I captured the way that everyone embraced the celebration and the softer romantic side of Han and Kim that I started to understand during our engagement session and various meetings. This is a more subtle side of them that can be missed.
Kim and Han’s wedding reception was at the Broadwater Pagoda hotel in Perth. We had discussed in our planning meeting the idea of shots on the bridge over the freeway. I wanted to play with some natural source lighting and on the bridge we found that we could use the lighting from the freeway to create something unique. This image has a cinematic quality and it was one of those moments as a photographer that I knew this would be a special image. I love it!
