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Happy

Happy

Natalie and Jeremy

Natalie and Jeremy

Ceremony beside the sea

Ceremony beside the sea

Natalie

Natalie

Natalie and Jeremy were married at Swadling Reserve, Toowoon Bay with a stunning backdrop to the Pacific Ocean. Besides watching the ceremony performed by Celebrant Sonia Harman, guests were treated to seeing whales breach in the background on their annual winter migration to the north. Their reception was at Manons House, Bateau Bay.

ONLINE SLIDESHOW HERE

True blue

True blue

Nicolas Paul on his property in Western NSW. Thank you for the wonderful hospitality for the weekend Nicolas and Sharon. Wedding Stills will be doing Nicolas and Sharons wedding later this year.

Are all your written notes are all over the place and not synced between you laptop and computer?

I recently trialled (and I’m now using full time) a great little program called All My Notes. It is a free application that will consolidate all your “notes”. This puts into one place all the “post it” notes you have on your screen in W7, can replace many short Word docs that you have all over the place and can replace the “Tasks” list in Outlook.

There is a paid deluxe version that does some extra things, which I intend to get. The paid version can add hyperlinks, icons, priorities, password protection and paste images into a note, etc. And the paid version is much better value than MS One Note.

You can use it for “to do” lists, internet addresses and links (favourites and bookmarks), addresses, jotting down ideas and plans, passwords, banking details, phone numbers and more. There are many more suggestions on the site and you are limited only by your imagination.

You can run this on your PC, laptop and flashdrive and, if you want to, you can sync betweent them. The site and help menu tells you how (pass it through Dropbox).

Brides, you can manage your wedding plans by keeping all your digital notes, records, log in details and emails (cut and paste them into it) in one place. Any planning or people you need to contact, make a note of. Any milestones or due by dates, make a note of. This is the digital version of the traditional “shoebox” where you drop all your records or your paper folder where you keep your clippings, ideas and planning. Yes you can “copy” images from websites and drop them into a note but only with the paid version. But not much to spend to greatly improve your productivity. Great value, even if you buy the full version.

Ladies, I recommended it!

All My Notes homepage here.
Here’s another independant review of the program.

All My Notes Review

These two don't need any coaching

These two don't need any coaching

Above the Bogey Hole .. Newcastle on dusk

Above the Bogey Hole .. Newcastle on dusk

So .. how many people can you get into a stretch??

So .. how many people can you get into a stretch??

Memories Function Centre

Memories Function Centre

One happy bride on the dance floor

One happy bride on the dance floor

Those are really long legs

Those are really long legs

Angela and Leonard were married at and had their reception at the award winning Memories Function Centre, Wallsend. Angela looked like a hollywood star and Leonard wasn’t too bad either, very  debonair. They were very comfortable with each other and werent’ hard to photograph at all. Patricia from Natalies Limousines was very flexible and accomodating for what the couple and photographer needed. Thank you Patricia.

ONLINE SLIDESHOW HERE

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK THANK YOU!!!!!!! Took us ages to get the computer to co-operate but was amazing when we got it to work!!!!
(Angela, via Facebook)

Ange in b&w

Ange in b&w

Angela and Leonard portrait

Angela and Leonard pre-wedding portrait

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Be happy!

Be happy!

Sarah and Steve were considering Wedding Stills to look after their wedding images. Here is one shot from their e-session. Yes, they booked!

bride and the girls

bride and the girls

greeted in the aisle

greeted by the groom

the ring

with this ring ..

sealed with a kiss

sealed with a kiss

North Entrance park on Tuggerah Lake

North Entrance park on Tuggerah Lake

Rikki and Nathan were married at North Entrance Surf Club. Rikki didn’t wear the traditional white, opting for a shorter and more colourful gown. She wore it well. They didn’t need any coaching for the intimate shots, these two were very comfortable with each other. Here are small selection. They also have an online slideshow on the Photodex server where Wedding Stills has an account. SLIDESHOW HERE

“.. thank you very much for doing an excellent job on our photos - we hope you had as much fun taking them as we did looking through them! .. Cheers, Nathan and Rikki”

The kiss

The kiss

Green eyes

Green eyes

daniel taking his marriage vows

Daniel taking his marriage vows

Throwing the bouquet, arrowfield winery, jerrys plains

Throwing the bouquet, arrowfield winery, jerrys plains

Sarah and Daniel were married on Coolmore Stud, Jerrys Plains in the beautiful Hunter Valley. The reception was up the road at Arrowfield Winery. A relaxed day, an elegant bride and a social evening.

SLIDESHOW HERE

The Old Post Office B&B Jerrys Plains

The Old Post Office B&B Jerrys Plains

For anyone wanting to stay over in the Jerrys Plains, Denman, Singleton or Muswellbrook area I can wholeheartedly recommend the The Old Post Office B&B in Jerrys Plains. Not hard to find because Jerrys is only a one horse town, it’s pretty much in the middle, opposite the Tavern. Russell and Jacqueline are the perfects hosts and will make you feel very comfortable. They didn’t mind us coming in just on midnight after the Coolmore wedding and gave us a fantastic hot breakfast on the verandah, being mothers day, the following day. We didn’t want to leave. Ph: 02 6576 4040, 13 Pagan St, Jerrys Plains. Between the wedding, a tour of Coolmore  and the accommodation .. a very nice weekend!

Speaking of horses, they are all out of town at Coolmore, a couple of clicks to the west where they are worth some $25 million each. Coolmore is Irish owned (where my ancestors came from on Dad’s side) with their other studs in Kentucky and Ireland.

Sandra and Chris had their ceremony, photos and reception all at the beautiful Tuggerah Lakes Golf Club on a rainy day. Sandra was VERY obliging, being prepared to venture out onto the golf course to get her stunning wedding images between showers. We got some amazing shots under heavy skies with the old Chevvies in iridescent blue, glistening with raindrops. CLICK HERE FOR THEIR ONLINE SLIDESHOW. (Click the images above for full size photo).

Well after much thought, research and testing we have decided to have the main part of Wedding Stills website hosted on Photoshelter. Photoshelter hosts over 60 000 sites for professional photographers and can supply those online tools specific to photographers such as ..

  • very easily to add new photos to the galleries
  • very easy to edit or modify our packages and prices
  • we can watermark or not watermark our images
  • the ability to add sales of prints, products and downloads by adding a shopping cart
  • rights management of digital images is a specialty of photoshelter
  • search engine optimisation specifically geared for images
  • technology to embed slideshows
  • links to social sites such as Facebook
  • flash home page slideshow .. nor not (flash doesn’t play on Apple products such as iPhone or iPad)
  • and very importantly for a photographer .. huge space to store images

CLICK HERE TO GO TO NEW SITE

This site is still having content added such as image galleries and more packages but it is a complete working site.

As soon as a few technical issues are sorted with all of the Wedding Stills domain names (weddingstills.net , weddingstills.net.au , weddingstills.com.au ) all domain names will point to this new site. When that happens the new packages and prices will be in effect. Packages on the packages page will have a SUMMARY on the site but for the FULL description you can click a link so you can download it straight to your computer as a zip file. I got the html code to do this from a friend at Completely Free Software. Thank you Graham.

The blog will continue to be hosted on our Lypha server and address for that will continue to be weddingstills.net/weddingsblog . The “blog” link on the new site will resolve straight to the existing blog.

New Website coming soon

Under the Bridge

Under the Bridge (not bad from a moving boat)

A rare smile from Kevin

A rare smile from Kevin

On board Aussie Legend Sydney Harbour

On board Aussie Legend Sydney Harbour

Aussie Legend