Brands and News

Hello all,

It’s been a while and I apologise for that but things have been rather busy. I’ve been getting weddings edited and handed over. I’ve been shooting and producing product for portraits. And I’ve been trying to take things a little easier as I tend to work around 80-110 hours per week.

My big plan for 2011 is to diversify my brand. My wedding work will continue under the RXAphotography framework as people know that, but my non-wedding work will be under my name, Richard Annable. This will de-clutter the website a little and allow more focussed delivery in the future.

The branding will look like this (the photo from the recent Tommy & Phil Emmanuel 50th anniversary tour).

Photo of the day #108 - Tommy Emmanuel Speaking of Tommy Emmanuel, I am flying to Adelaide on Saturday to photograph his concert with the aim of shooting some promotional material for his upcoming European tour with his full band. I can’t wait for the experience and look forward to sharing some of my favourites from the shoot.

Hopefully more articles coming your way shortly! Thanks for hanging around.

{Melbourne Wedding Photographer} Hannah & Jarred

Photo of the day #107 - Catch!I’m going to end this series from Hannah & Jarred’s wedding with my all time favourite garter photograph.

Thank you both for the honour of photographing your wedding. It was a long time in the making and a lot of fun in the shooting. 

{Melbourne Wedding Photographer} Hannah & Jarred

Photo of the day #106 - The boys You can almost hear the soundtrack to “Reservoir Dogs” playing in the background. 

{Melbourne Trash the Dress Photographer} Caitlin & Ben Trailer

Here is a trailer I put together for a bit of fun.

Caitlin & Ben’s Trash the Dress Trailer from Richard Annable on Vimeo.

Video by Adam Davidson.

{Melbourne Wedding Photographer} Hannah & Jarred

Photo of the day #105 - Hannah & Jarred Such a fun couple … Two beautiful people. 

{Melbourne Wedding Photographer} Testimonial

Nadia and Philip, whose wedding will grace these blog pages shortly, sent me this note this morning:

“It is always nerve-wracking to work with someone when you don’t know anything about their work - but what a treasure you turned out to be.  Thank you for the absolutely stunning photographs you took.  Philip & I are truly delighted by them.  Your photographs really captured the magic of the day. Thank you also for your patience and your hard work.  Philip and I felt very relaxed on our big day and we had a lot of fun doing the photographs with you.  We would have to describe Richard as “A guy who is doing this (photography) not because this is his career but instead, this is his passion”.”

Thank you so much. Your wedding not only introduced me to your wonderful family but also to a new location I have used again since your wedding!

Looking forward to catching up very soon.

{Melbourne Wedding Photographer} Hannah & Jarred

Photo of the day #104 - I wonder what he said? I both love and look for moments like these in every ceremony I photograph. I know what he said as the couple told me during their handover, and it was both funny and kind of sweet. But I’m not going to tell you.

{Melbourne Wedding Photographer} Hannah & Jarred

Photo of the day #103 - Hannh stops for a six pack Hannah likes a nice cold one so when we had a few minutes up our sleeves, she pointed us to the Seaford Hotel, where she picked up a beverage for the journey.

The looks on the attendants face when a bride, her entourage and a photographer turned up was rather amusing.

{Melbourne Wedding Photographer} Hannah & Jarred

Photo of the day #102 - Hannah I take great pleasure in handing over Hannah & Jarred’s wedding photographs tonight. I can’t wait to see them both and to berate Jarred for selling his iPad.

{Melbourne Trash the Dress Photographer} Caitlin & Ben

Photo of the day #101 - Caitlin at/under Wombelano Falls - Photo by Michael Krilic Today was an interesting day. I had the honour of photographing Caitlin & Ben on their wedding day one year and one week ago. This session was planned for their first anniversary but the weather decided that was not going to happen.

So today myself, Caitlin, Ben, Adam & Tam (my usual assistants) and Michael Krilic (who took the photo above) risked life and limb to scale down and then up and then down extremely steep terrain to reach the base of Wombelano Falls.

To say we left the beaten track is an understatement. Caitlin & Ben had prepped us to believe that the hike would be “challenging”. The challenge caused one assistant to have to return to the car for the duration of the shoot (having sustained a injury in the during the descent), nearly drowned another and took all the courage and fortitude possessed by the third to get back up the gully after the session was complete. Not only was the terrain enough of a challenge, but to negotiate it whilst carrying the required equipment and wedding clothing made it all the difficult.

Was it all worth it? In the post shoot discussions we all agreed it was. Actually when we got down to the base of the falls we decided it was, knowing fully well the difficult nature of the return journey.

Overall a fun shoot with a fun couple and crew. Keep an eye out for the odd sneak peak between upcoming wedding posts.

Thank you all who came along today for your help, laughter and determination to do what needed to be done. You all made me very proud to be part of such an amazing day.