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Welcome to the new, re-imagined, Annielyn Images. It’s 2011 and it’s been a crazy start to the year. So much so that every time we have gone to update ourselves to you, nine other new things have happened. So, in the next few posts, we’re just going to summarise what’s been going on, and what it means for you

First, some recent history. I accepted the position of Vice President of the PPAQ (link)
Whilst I love hanging out with other photographers, there was one thing I noticed. Photographers complain. A lot. About other photographers. About markets. About gear. About change. Many meetings were had about conditions the world had ‘thrust upon us’. And it made me realise – WHAT A BUNCH OF COMPLAINERS HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I’m not in this for the complaining! I’m in this to photograph beautiful weddings. That’s it! And when Anna and I refocussed on that, we accidentally made some startling leaps and bounds. And that’s a rollercoaster that we have strived to keep rolling.

Towards the end of 2010, we realised change was needed. Times change, clients change and we wanted to not react to this, but lead the charge into this. Everyone remembers the GFC (it’s still current ) – we thought it didn’t affect us, but slowly (too slowly) noticed that you (the reader) WERE changing, not in a negative way, or a positive way – just changing.

So we changed our mission. Drastically. But didn’t know how to introduce it. Didn’t know how to present it so that the cool, big city kids (photographers) would react to it positively and so that you, our couples who help us have this career would react positively. Then we realised something. There’s an easy way to solve this problem. Stop worrying about other photographers! We’ve never been the same as them anyway! You guys know that, that’s why we get so many awesome clients! We just never realised. Sure we all use cameras, kind of in the same way we all use cars to get to work! But we’re not all the same.

When that light bulb went off, things got exciting! Fast. Too fast to blog about!

It started with a new studio…….

New Brisbane Studio

We woke up to some pretty serious weather on Saturday morning – fog, rain and the promise of more fog and rain to come.

It didn’t matter though, as Anna’s ancient kung fu training held the weather at bay (like most Asians, Anna is a ninja and can black out the sun by the power of thought alone )

Mick has (sorry, HAD. He’s been married for two days now ) the ultimate bachelor pad – there were like 19 of the coolest guys I’ve ever seen in one place in my life with the car collection from the Fast and the Furious in the front yard.

Jess is just gorgeous. Mick’s alright too.

But the light was falling fast, meaning the tripod and the camera remotes were brought out for some night shots (night basically starting around 5pm!) The moon was lighting up the the dramatically cloudy sky so we pinched them after entrees (at the Highfields Cultural Centre) for a few shots outside to finish off

Here’s a quick sneak peak, guys – thank you for letting us be a part of your day

But Jack and the team (including Anna and I) have been collaborating with music videos of late, and it’s been a fun endeavour (for me, Jack has to do all the hard work )

Project 62 (MySpace)(facebook)launched their debut musical video on Saturday night, which is why we have been sitting on this, to a packed crowd of stoked fans at The Green Room. Check them out on iTunes or amazon.com

Now, for the record, I got a Director of Photography credit on this musical short film, but truthfully I was mainly walking around, looking important, moving lights, telling the talent be better looking (by leaning forward and lifting their chins ) and generally being painful!

For the nerdy, this was shot on DSLR cameras (Canon 7D’s). For the nerdier, you know that I shoot with Nikon, so have had to adjust to shooting with backwards cameras hahahaha

Enjoy! Please note that this is not remotely safe for work (NSFW) (the use of the f-bomb) but, if you’re at work, what are you doing on the internet??

They are a gorgeous couple. Makes me want to go mwah… LOL!!! We also did their wedding when we got back but you’ll have to wait for that one:) For now here are some of their preshoot photos…