welcome to james day photography

Matt & Katie are the newly famous team at Shadowplay Photography & Video, based in Toowoomba! Matt & Katie, come back! I had way too good a time while you were in town…. and you desperately need to come back again and visit me!

These guys are friends with one of my previous clients Maddie and Steve who’s wedding I photographed a few years ago now.. and apparently after Maddie & Steve told Katie who shot their wedding, Katie spent the next 4 hours on my blog going through all my images. What a compliment!
I then heard from Matt and Katie asking if they could come and visit me for a few days. I looked at their work, and the tables were turned.. I started begging them to come.
While Matt and Katie were here, we, as a team, photographed and filmed Alex and Danika’s Wedding. Poor Matt got his foot run over by one of the groomsmans cars.. but I believe he’s doing better now. Not to mention any names..(ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM)

We also did a heap of other things while they were here.. we made a promo video for the new blog, did a shoot of Matt & Katie, and a few other fun videos which I will share with you shortly.

For the first installment, here we have Matt & Katie’s images from a shoot I did of them. Believe it or not, Matt & Katie didn’t really have any nice images of themselves together, so I was happy to oblige.

In the next few days, I will share the awesome Wedding Video Teaser that Matt put together for Alex and Danika as well as a funny video poking fun at a wedding photographer friend of mine - they’ve seen it and are planning revenge - look out world!

Here are some of the images from Matt and Katie’s sweetheart shoot.

onto random news of the week.
*My car got smashed again - parked right out front of my house. All they stole was a GPS. If they’re lost, they should have knocked on the door and asked for directions!
*Thank you to everyone who is linking to me on their blogs. It seriously blows me away when I look at my stats page and see all the new people linking to me all the time and being surrrounded by such inspiring names in your inspiration sections of your websites. Seriously, I’m not worthy!
*Lauren is settling into life here in Armidale, she’s started a job today. I might have to go on there one day with a camera and spy on her working and put photos up here. Lauren is that ok?
*I now have an accounts guy in the office and never have to think about money ever again! Welcome Sam!
*I am still gyming it up and trying to eat healthily. Kicking the chocolate completely is hard though.
*I’m getting so excited about travelling to Hawaii to shoot a wedding for Richard and Kristi, their pics are coming soon!

JD

I woke up at 5am this morning.. rather annoyed.. as it didn’t seem I would be able to get back to sleep.. & I’ve got a super busy day today, so I needed all the sleep I could get.. but then shortly after waking up…my blackberry went off with a facebook wall post from Rob and Lauren telling me that I’ve been blogified! -meaning that the shoot that they did of Lauren and I is now on their blog.
I was expecting good things from them, and I gave them a super hard time while they were shooting me. I did my random fake posing, I stuck my middle finger up at them alot..apparently there were enough photos from that for a full blog post.
I am so blown away with the results. What do you guys thing? Isn’t Lauren gorgeous! That isn’t a question… it’s a definite.

See more on their blog at www.robandlauren.ca OR CLICK HERE

Thanks again Rob and Lauren!

& a note to my lauren.. don’t we look hot together? Smokin!

JD

Lavonne = Canadian.
Rory = Australian.

They’re off to a great start already.

Lavonne decided to sign up for couch surfing, because she knew she would be needing to call on others when she travelled next. Lavonne made the mistake of including her photograph on her profile, and had guy after guy contact her asking if they could stay. She said no every time. Until Rory came along. She saw Rory’s photo, thought he looked tiny and harmless and agreed to let him stay. He arrived, he was tall, handsome and with a killer aussie accent. It works every time I tell ya.

That was just 6 months ago.

My journey with them begun when I met them at the Banff Springs Hotel, when Perry started talking to them randomly. Perry talks to everyone and I love it! Rory & Lavonne & I realised we had alot in common and we exchanged details. A few days later I got an email from Lavonne asking me if I’d be interested in doing a shoot. You bet!

It was a wonderful afternoon, full of looks between Lauren & I, realising the 2 relationships had so many similarities. Lauren.. well..she’s a typical Canadian, she’s very particular about things.. and me.. well I’m a little more relaxed..I think it’s a Canadian/Australian thing.

Lavonne & Rory, thanks for sharing the afternoon, and a meal with Lauren and I. I can’t wait to shoot your wedding one day!

JD

I want to be able to tell you all about my very very very exciting trip this thursday, but it’s top secret! You can read all about it here in the next few days though!