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Hey Folks,

It’s nearly time for me to head back to Australia! I will be arriving in Sydney on wednesday morning (20th of August). I am available wednesday afternoon and thursday afternoon for shoots and the first people who contact me and lock in a time will have that time set aside for them. Email james@jamesday.com.au and title the email “Shoot us in Sydney!”. For those photographers wanting to catch up, email me with the subject title “meet me in Sydney”. For those brides who are interested in finding out more about what I offer, I will also be available for meetings on wednesday and thursday in the Sheraton on the Park hotel in the Sydney CBD and email me with the subject title “checking you out in the city”.

JD

I’ve been searching and searching for an awesome videographer in Australia..and dissapointed time and time again with the garbage that I keep on seeing.
Until…Matt from Shadowplay contacts me and blows me away with his awesomeness.
Matt is a SUPER TALENTED very creative TECHNICALLY BRILLIANT videographer that I am not asking…. not begging…. but DEMANDING my clients to book to do wedding video at their wedding. Katie is the photographer in the team..and well I can’t talk her up too much because I only want you to book their video.. not photo as well.. that’s what I do!
Check out their website at www.shadowplay.com.au to see their freakishness!

I asked Matt if he could write up a few quick things to say about Shadowplay so that If (or when) I featured them on here I would have some stuff to write about them.. and this is what they wrote to me.. verbatim!

“wedding videos that don’t suck
We only do a select number of weddings each year … - about 10 or 12
An awesome wedding video is the perfect complement to your photography - having both tells the full story of your special day
Shadowplay is a husband and wife team - Katie does the photography, Matt does the video
Katie is also an awesome kids photographer - www.katiefinn.com.au or blogspot.katiefinnphotography.com
James Day rocks!”

Also, they, like me, use a shootsac to store their lenses in while they shoot and here is a video that they made for Jessica Claire, who is the founder of Shootsac.

Katie - Shootsac Promo - HD from Matt E on Vimeo.

Here’s their demo video which I watched about 10 times.

Shadowplay Photography and Video - Demo from Matt E on Vimeo.

& for the super exciting bit..
They’ve asked if they can come along to a wedding with me and are joining me on the 30th of August.. yep.. in a few weeks.. for the ABSOLUTELY AWESOME BEYOND WORDS, Alex and Danika’s Wedding…. to shoot a profile video for me! Sweet! SO you’ll be seeing alot more of these guys popping up around here in the next few weeks! Awesome.. and yes mum I know you hate the word awesome and you think everyone overuses it these days. AWESOME!

JD

Seriously.. can someone teach me how not to act like a fool when I have my photo taken? ARGGH!
Actually, I love it. I don’t know why.. but I love pulling strange faces in photos.
See more at Rob & Lauren’s blog. Oh, and you’ll see more photos of them that I took. There are pics on there that I haven’t put on here ever. (actually, i got the preview of the blog post before it went live, and it might be a few more hours before it goes up.. so check the link later!)

JD

Hey Folks,

Some of you knew, but most of you wouldn’t know that I’m in New York City, in fact, staying right on Times Square! I’m here to document a Wedding Reception/ Summertime Celebration/ Clam Bake for Alan & Bree! They were married in Australia on NYE last year, and are now having their New York Reception. They live in NY and have commissioned me to come over and shoot this for them. Cool gig huh? The shindig will be in the Hamptons, and it’s going to be an absolute blast.

If any of you NY photographers want to get together, then shoot me an email. I’m sure I’ll have a little bit of time free over the next few days (im in the area till tuesday) which brings me to my next point.. between tuesday afternoon and friday morning I will be in Toronto hanging out with a few photogs… a few non photog friends.. but once again if you want to do something.. then you just shoot me an email!

I will leave you with a couple of images from NY that I took just a few minutes ago. There will be alot more, don’t you worry!

JD

Just watch the video and you’ll find out who wins.

JD