I learnt a big lesson at this pre-wedding photoshoot…  If the temperature in Perth is over 40 degrees C, do NOT head to a dog beach after 5pm for a photoshoot.  Every person and his or her dog were at Whitfords Dog Beach on this Sunday afternoon when I met Melissa, Mattie and their 2 babies (didn’t you know, dogs are people too).

One of the reasons for having a pre-wedding shoot is to get all those nerves out the way when in front of the camera.  When there is a-gazillion people staring at you wandering why you are having photos on the beach, there is no way the nerves are going to subside and even I was self conscious with all those people around.

Anyway… Melissa and Mattie are getting married at the end of March on the beach down south and I am looking forward to it!  Especially since Melissa sent me some photos of the beach this week and it looks stunning!  Unfortunately their 2 little Jack Russells will not be attending the wedding so here are some shots of them (and Melissa and Mattie) at the beach.

Meg and I used to sit next to each other at work and I can honestly say that both of us have a gift of the gab. Honestly I don’t know how we managed to get so much ahem… any work done, but I think we must both be great multitaskers!  So I could write a very, very long post about Meg & Tim but I will try not to… Meg is from Boston so these images are for all the family and friends back there who are missing Meg and seeing her baby bump (Smudge).

When Meg asked me to take her maternity photos (read - I didn’t give her a choice, she was GOING to have a maternity shoot!), I straight away had visions of a very down-to-earth maternity session that suited them and the dog beach by the South Fremantle Power Station allowed them to include their first ‘baby’ Fordie too (that is the dog in the photos just incase you were wondering).

Fordie looking very cute (Meg emailed me asking if there were any cute ones of Fordie)

See Meg, another cute one of Fordie!

I’m not even going to caption this one, but for some reason Tim looks surprised!

And the standard belly shot to end the post.