Vicki James Creative Imagery Blog

Kristal ~ Pregnancy Portraits

Vicki James — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:47:58 +0000

Yesterday I spent a glorious winters afternoon photographing Kristal. Kristal is due to have her second baby in about 6 weeks. There’s a few locations that I’ve be keen to shoot at so we travelled around a bit and we were lucky enough to find some glorious light.

It’s always fun for me when you a have someone in front of your camera who is funny, confident and beautiful inside and out, plus they are willing to let you take them anywhere for photos!! Thank you Kristal.

I hope you enjoy a few that jumped out at me this morning.

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Debbie May Flowers

Vicki James — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:44:07 +0000

Once a year in the lead up to the Yamba Bridal Expo, Debbie May Flowers starts pulling together photos of the bouquets she’s created over the past year for the pages of her portfolio. It’s always a pleasure putting together my photos for her as it a chance to walk down memory lane and reminisce over some of my weddings of the past year.

I hope you enjoy some of Debbie Mays gorgeous flowers!

Mel and Joel: 7 March 2010

Anthony and Andrea: 6 March 2010

Charmaine and Mark: 16 January 2010

Lily and Michael: 30 January 2010

Nardeen and Peter: 15 May 2010

Lee and Stefanie: 1 May 2010

Anna and Dave: 8 May 2010

Megan and Nathan: 20 June 2009

Rebecca and Daniel: 13 February 2010

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Christine Preston and Dawn Shepherd-Marriage Celebrants

Vicki James — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:18:44 +0000

I think I have known Christine Preston for like, forever, and Dawn Shepherd well, it feels like forever, but in a good way. Chris and Dawn and both great friends and amazing marriage celebrants. I adore working with them because they share my love and passion for weddings and I know that they will do anything to make their brides and grooms wedding day fabulous.

Yesterday we took the time to have coffee and lemon meringue pie together, oh, yes, and shoot a few photographs afterwards.

Here’s a few photos that jumped out at me. I hope you enjoy

Dawn:

Chris:

Dawn is always wearing really cute shoes:

And Chris loves her handbags. She introduced me to Spencer and Rutherford. I now own one of their very lovely handbags.

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Family Time | Lismore Lantern Parade

Vicki James — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:35:00 +0000

Yesterday Anthony, I, my girls and my niece made the trek to Lismore to see the annual Lismore Lantern Parade. During the quiet part of the year (in terms of weddings) I really try to spend some quality time with my girls to hopefully make up for the many weekends I am working the rest of the year.

I also really wanted to spend some time practicing some of my night photography skills and what better way than at a Lantern Parade. In order to challenge myself further (and also for the mere fact I didn’t want to carry my entire photography kit) . I picked my camera body (Canon 5D for those who are interested), my flash (my flash Canon 580ex-really should learn how to use that thing better) and then I did something really wild. I shut my eyes, put my hand in my bag a pulled out a random lens. Seriously. I am that wild! I ended up taking the 50mm 1.2. Yay! I love that lens!

To start with, we have the Cast of Characters….and I mean characters!

My little girl, pose much?

My big girl, she’s growing up so fast and she is just such so lovely (I can say that, I’m her mum):

My niece, Mik, she loves hanging out with my girls:

It is impossible to get a ‘normal’ photo of them at this stage in their life, I thought I would try again later:

It didn’t get any better..what’s with the beanie OVER the hood Mik?

The parade:

The dinosaurs from Erth made an appearance. I’ve seen these guys a few times and that are so talented!

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Nardeen and Pete | wedding

Vicki James — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:16:15 +0000

During Nardeen and Pete’s vows, Nardeen said one line. That one line, for the rest of my life, I know I will never forget…..”You fixed my broken mower and you fixed my broken heart”. I cried….again!

Nardeen and Pete met when Nardeen called on him to fix her mower. Little did she know that this wonderful man would change her life forever. It was a privilege photograph Nardeen and Pete’s wedding and witness two lovely families becoming one. And the blessings don’t end there! Nardeen discovered she was 6 months pregnant not long before the wedding, so now we are all eagerly awaiting the gorgeous baby who will bring the family members up to 7!

I hope you enjoy the photos from their wedding:

The florals were provided by Debbie May Flowers:

I just loved the backs of the bridesmaids dresses:

Giggles:

Nardeen and Pee decided to have ‘First Look’ for their photos. It meant that we took most of their wedding photos before their actual ceremony. It was lovely and intimate and we were able to grab some lovely family photos at the same time:

Love this!

Pete has some extra special cuff links to wear. I think he looks super cool in this shot:

Hello gorgeous!

The ceremony was held on the grassy knoll at Main Beach, Yamba

The whole family had a role to play during the sand ceremony:

Married:

We took about 30 minutes after the ceremony to grab a few photos of just Nardeen and Pete without the children. We were also lucky to score some yummy light as the sun was setting”

As I wasn’t staying for the reception we grabbed a First Dance shot within the beautifully decorated room:

The funky cake was made by Jo at Party Art:

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The Honour Roll:

Marriage Celebrant: Christine Preston

Florals: Flowers by Debbie May

Make Up: Endessas Beauty Spot

Decorator: Fabulous Functions

Ceremony: Yamba Main Beach, Yamba

Reception: Yamba Surf Club

Caterer: Party Art

Cake: Party Art

Looking for Autumn leaves….

Vicki James — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:01:25 +0000

Reading my friend Karissa from Image Photography’s blog lately and I’ve been just a little envious of all the beautiful Autumn leaves she’s been photographing in and around Tamworth and Armidale. Since we don’t have many of those lovely trees in Yamba I used the opportunity of being in Graftons See Park today to grab some quick photos of my girls.

Most of the leaves had lost their gorgeous colour, but we managed to find a few nice golden ones. It was an impromptu shoot so the girls are styled in whatever they found clean this morning!

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Kim and Daniel | My first wedding on a boat!

Vicki James — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:54:10 +0000

I can remember vividly Kim telling me that her and Daniels wedding was going to be on a boat. Daniel’s a fisherman, he is one with boats, he has sea legs. I have land legs and not real steady ones at that! I thought it best to tell Kim that I don’t have sea legs and the last time I went out on a boat I counted the looong seconds until we were back on land. Needless to say, I won’t share any more of that story! I felt much better though when Kim informed me, that she to only has land legs. I though to myself, I’ll be ok and I happily accepted the privilege of photographing Kim and Daniels wedding day.

The next question I asked was, are you really getting married on Daniels trawler? It turns out that the ‘boat’ was actually a 75ft luxury cruiser that shares a jetty with Daniels trawler. Such is my life, cruising around the Clarence River on luxury boats doing what I love *sigh* .

I hope you enjoy the photos of Kim and Daniels wedding.

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The Honour Roll:

Marriage Celebrant: Dawn Shepherd

Florals: Bonnie McGowan

Brides Hair: Karen at Pure Shine

Reception: Yamba Golf Club

Entertainment: Little Fish

Nardeen and Pete | Wedding Preview

Vicki James — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:17:11 +0000

Nardeen and Pete’s wedding day was nothing was nothing short of magical. They exchanged their vows at Main Beach Yamba in front of family, friends and passing dolphins on Saturday. It was a union of two people perfect for each other. The tears flowed…. and that’s just from both myself and gorgeous marriage celebrant Christine Preston! A full blog post to follow…..

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Anna and Dave | Wedding Preview

Vicki James — Mon, 10 May 2010 02:34:37 +0000

Anna and Daves wedding on Saturday was one of beautiful maidens and knights in shining armour, of romantic poetry , of passion and of inextinguishable love. A full blog post to come later……I hope you enjoy the preview!

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Brooke and Steve | a sea side wedding

Vicki James — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:00:36 +0000

When Brooke married Steve you could see it was one of the happiest days of her life. Her beautiful smile never left her face. Their ceremony was held on a rock platform with beautiful Turners Beach, Yamba in the background. The sun shone brightly, seagulls flew past and surfers stopped and watched as Brooke and Steve exchanged their vows. Following is a selection of photos from their day.

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The Honour Roll:

Marriage Celebrant: Christine Preston

Decorator: Fabulous Functions

Ceremony: Turners Beach, Yamba

Reception: Yamba Shores Tavern