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Camera-shy? Hate having your photo taken? Hey there! No stiff poses or awkward smiles - just you legends being yourselves in places you absolutely love.

You're my kind of people! 👋 I'm your Margaret River mate who turns wedding photography into an actual fun day out (no awkward poses or forced smiles here!) Promise you'll be laughing too much to feel awkward! 😊 I'm John - your Margaret River mate who happens to be absolutely stoked about capturing wild-in-love couples having the time of their lives! 🌊
When I'm not chasing epic sunset shots or helping camera-shy couples crack up laughing, you'll find me:

Surfing our gorgeous coastline (usually badly, but enthusiastically!)
Living the good life with my awesome tribe of kids, wife, and our crazy-but-loveable menagerie of pets
Growing veggies that sometimes actually survive 😅
Hunting down Margaret River's best drops of red (it's research, I swear!)

But here's what really gets me excited - creating those 'holy moly, is that really us?!' moments for couples who usually dodge the camera faster than a roo dodges headlights! Whether you're planning an intimate shindig or a full-blown celebration, my style is all about catching those belly-laugh moments, happy tears, and spontaneous hugs that tell your real story. Think of me as your personal adventure buddy with a camera - I'm here to make sure your wedding photos are as fun to create as they are to look back on (and trust me, they'll be ripper!)

Reckon we might be a good fit? Chuck me a message - I'd love to hear what kind of magic you're planning! ✨

30/10/2026

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28/10/2026

They didn't know I was taking this one.

Erin was mid-sentence and Jason was laughing at whatever she'd just said, and they were sitting on a log in the middle of Boranup Forest surrounded by ferns, and neither of them was thinking about the camera. That's the frame. That's the one they'll print big and put on a wall.

Here's the thing most photographers don't say out loud: you cannot pose your way into a photo that looks like this. You can't tell someone "look natural" and get natural. The moment you introduce direction, the shoulders come up, the smile sets, the eyes flick to camera. The photo turns into a picture of someone being photographed.

The way you get frames like this is you stop directing. You let people talk to each other. You put them somewhere calm and beautiful and you let them forget you're standing three metres away with a camera. And you wait.

Most of my couples tell me the same thing afterwards: they didn't feel photographed. That's the whole method. That's the whole thing.

If you're camera-shy and the idea of a wedding day full of "everyone look here" makes you want to elope in the first place, we should talk. I've built the entire way I work around this.

DM me. 🤍

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20/10/2026

More of our Norway trip. We did a decent days walk, an early dinner and a couple of Viking beers and then got to the top of a decent hill to pitch our tents. Crazy views!! I went on about blue hour a bit too long and copped some p**s taking haha

14/10/2026

Norway adventures 🇳🇴
So lucky to have experienced this amazing trip with my family. We trekked through the Lofoten Islands carrying our everything in our backpacks. Crazy scenes!! These pics are off my phone, I haven't got to editing my proper pics off my camera yet. I got home and had five awesome weddings in ten days. So lucky and grateful to do what I love for work and play

23/09/2026

Poses fade. Real moments don't.

Damo + Kristy, Solitaire Homestead, Margaret River. Candid moments so you remember how the day actually felt, not just how it looked posed.

22/09/2026

Six couples. Their words, not mine.

Every couple in this swipe hired me to plan and photograph their Margaret River elopement or wedding. Ireland to Perth, camera-shy to cliff-top adventurers, small beach ceremonies to full weekend runs.

The common thread across all of them: less to think about, more to enjoy on the day. That's the whole point of doing this as one job instead of two.

I'm not just your photographer. I'm the one booking your hair and makeup, your celebrant, your florist, your accommodation, your ceremony location. So by the wedding day everything's already sorted and I'm the person you already know with the camera.

300+ elopements planned and photographed across Margaret River, Dunsborough, Yallingup, and the wider South West.

If you want the same, DM me.

21/09/2026

Candids you'll actually feel in ten years.

Jocelyn + Garth, Hay Shed Hill Wines. Candid moments so the film gives back how the day felt, not just how it looked.

20/09/2026

Elopement portraits in Boranup Forest, standing on a fallen karri with the last of the sun cutting through the canopy.

Boranup does this most afternoons. Tall vertical karris, filtered gold light, ferns underfoot. Nothing else in Margaret River gives back this exact combination of scale and softness.

Ceremony under the canopy, portraits along the forest tracks, out to the coast for sunset if the timing works. That's a Boranup elopement done properly.

If you want a Boranup Forest elopement planned end to end, DM me.

19/09/2026

Just two people, giant granite, and quiet.

Andy and Nicole got married at Caves House Hotel in Yallingup, then we drove down to Shelley Cove for portraits. Shot from above on the massive weathered granite that Shelley Cove is known for. Two people, one boulder, the whole coastline holding them.

The Caves House to Shelley Cove combo works so well for Yallingup weddings. Ceremony and reception at a proper heritage venue, then a short drive to one of the most photogenic stretches of granite on the whole Cape Naturaliste coast. Fifteen minutes each way, huge visual payoff.

If you want a Yallingup or Margaret River wedding planned around venues and coastlines like these, DM me.

18/09/2026

Kombi, cliff top, golden hour.

Jamie and Nyssa's Margaret River elopement, wrapped up on the coast as the sun dropped into the Indian Ocean. Veil catching the last of the light, vintage Kombi parked up beside them.

This is what a Margaret River elopement can look like when the day gets planned around the light instead of squeezed in around it. Ceremony earlier, portrait time built into the golden hour window, coastal cliff top scouted for the wind on the day.

Small day, big feeling, one van, two people, one exit worth photographing.

If you want a Margaret River elopement planned around moments like this, DM me.

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