I Love Wednesdays &raquo; Sydney Australia // Wedding, Fashion &amp; Portrait Photography // Design // Milena Dekic

Alen Abdula - Milena, slike su ti preljepe! Keep up the good work!February 3, 2010 – 5:34 pm

Timothy E Kaldas - Great set. The couple looks so real and happy. These are the sort of images that put a smile on your face.February 3, 2010 – 6:34 pm

Cheshire wedding phtographer - Nice style. I think your processing really conplements the photos.February 3, 2010 – 7:46 pm

Daniel Dunlap - This is truly a great set. The second photo is my fave.February 4, 2010 – 12:36 am

Ned - Very cute couple. I love how you’ve captured their feelings towards each other.February 4, 2010 – 3:34 pm

Alicia Kennison - Great photos and I love their story too.February 4, 2010 – 8:50 pm

The Story of Pocahontas

January 29, 2010 Posted in EDITORIAL, PERSONAL

I posted a little preview of this shoot last week and finally we have the full shoot. It was a tricky shoot to cull down to just a few favourites. My first cull (and I promised myself to be ruthless) was 150 images, not much of a cull to be honest. But here’s a selection of my favourites that, to me, tell the story of the day and tell the story of the inspiration behind this shoot, Pocahontas.

by Len

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Alicia Kennison - It was worth the wait to see these extra photos! Great shoot.January 29, 2010 – 5:17 pm

Kelly - What incredible shots, and what a fantastic location too! Great job all around.January 30, 2010 – 1:31 am

Emily Porter - Um, these are incredible. Why do I not subscribe to your blog? That’s about to change. I am completely in love with this set of photos. Stunning!January 30, 2010 – 4:38 am

Kim Johnston - These are really cool. I especially love the lighting and tones in the final shot– great work!!January 30, 2010 – 5:05 am

Lyn Ismael-Bennett - Great set! Love the lighting on the last one January 30, 2010 – 8:54 am

Timothy E Kaldas - Len, this is a gorgeous set. I love the lighting in the black and white one when she’s looking off to the right.January 30, 2010 – 7:20 pm

Sweet Caroline Photo - great lighting, love the first one.January 30, 2010 – 7:26 pm

Alen Abdula - One word! AMAZING! Milena where are you from? Name sounds Bosnian, Croatian or Serbian? Anyways – Keep up the great work!January 31, 2010 – 2:49 am

Vicki – Shoot the Thrill Photography - Wonderful photo shoot! These are beautiful.January 31, 2010 – 6:55 am

Len - Thanks for all the love everyone. This was a fun shoot to do, and that location is just sublime, It’s got so many great places to photograph.

Alen, I was born in the former Yugoslavia, so you’d be correct in your guess, though my family moved to Australia when I was 5, so I’m really more of an Aussie than anything else. January 31, 2010 – 11:58 am

Kat Forsyth - What a stunning concept! You did it beautifully; I can see why you’re so proud of these images!February 1, 2010 – 3:46 am

Manchester wedding photographer - Wonderful photographs. Very nicely lit!February 1, 2010 – 5:02 am

Robb Duncan - Stunning subject, awesome location and images are amazing. The last one is my Fav, and I love the lighting!!February 1, 2010 – 10:17 am

Kirsten Alana - 1) I love the idea of a styled shoot in this manner! And you REALLY rocked it. 2) The location is soo perfect. It seems like an area of land untouched since the real Pocahontas walked the land. *Very nicely done!!*February 1, 2010 – 11:21 am

Kelly Ry - Crazy-love it! Gorgeous.February 2, 2010 – 2:11 am

Amanda Basteen - These photos are gorgeous! LOVE THEM!February 4, 2010 – 4:58 am

Pocahontas

January 22, 2010 Posted in EDITORIAL, PERSONAL

Yesterday I was part of a pretty amazing shoot. My friend and make-up artist extraordinaire Natalie Biller & I had been planning on doing a Pocahontas themed shoot for about the last 6 months. To say that I’m happy that we finally got to shoot it is an understatement.

The model was the lovely Amy Lyn Cage who I worked with on what was my first solo fashion shoot and it was lovely collaborating with her again. The stylist was Jess Bellef, who from the very first time I spoke to her was so enthusiastic and created these amazing looks, including making a headpiece for Amy and the hair stylist was Milli Jaksic, who created a look for Amy that was absolutely perfect ‘do and looked flawless the entire day.

I took my instax so I could get a photo of everyone involved and add them to the ever increasing wall of photos we have at home.

I’m still going through all of the photos from yesterday, but I just had to share my favourite from the day.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

by Len

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Leo Druker - Fantastic work! I love the warm light on the model against the darkness around her. Nicely done.January 22, 2010 – 1:51 pm

Brad - ohhhh neat! I like the lighting. Looks like it was a fun shoot.January 22, 2010 – 4:48 pm

matt s - Looks like it was a blast. Great final shot.January 22, 2010 – 5:39 pm

debbie mayes - absolutely beautiful image!January 23, 2010 – 10:04 am

Nick - Aww, I love it Wish I could have hung around a little longer! I was wondering how you were going to use the ‘location’ I am strangely… a little excited about seeing more! Will we get too see more? January 24, 2010 – 1:21 am

Kristi Wright - The last shot is perfection.January 24, 2010 – 6:49 am

Alicia Kennison - That’s a sexy photo! Nicely shot. No wonder it’s your favourite. January 24, 2010 – 12:12 pm

Len - Thanks everyone. It really was a fun shoot, and I can’t wait to post the rest of them. I’m just wading through them at the moment and picking my faves to edit. So, Nick, there will be plenty more, hopefully in the next few days. Also, thanks dude for suggesting that location, it was perfection!January 24, 2010 – 12:21 pm

Ceece - wow! what fun, and your lighting is great, really nailed it!January 24, 2010 – 3:14 pm

Kyle - Excellent concept. And execution. And beautiful model, great lighting, great makeup, great everything. Can’t wait to see more of this!

Do you mind telling us what kind of lighting you used?January 24, 2010 – 3:58 pm

Kelly Ry - Oh wow! That shot is fantastic. The pose, the costumin, the location, the lighting.January 25, 2010 – 8:42 am

Lara Eichhorn - Wonderful shot! I looks like a photo from an ultra hip magazine.January 25, 2010 – 1:11 pm

Jessica Bellef - So great!I am waiting with baited breath for the rest of the shots…I know there are a million more amazing ones to come!January 25, 2010 – 2:48 pm

Leona Siano - YOWZER!!! I’m in love with the last Pocahontas pic…ps I want an instax, the colours are amazing…I want one NOW!!! =)January 29, 2010 – 6:46 pm

After Dusk

January 12, 2010 Posted in PERSONAL

My favourite time of day is just after the sun has set. Everything still has that slight warm glow and I swear it smells different to the day. Especially in summer, after the excessive heat of the day (which I am none too fond of) the dusk comes as sweet relief.

The dusk also brings with it the beginning of the night and a majority of my work day. I’m a definite night-owl, I swear it’s genetic. I’m much more productive when I don’t have emails and phone calls and the beautiful day that I want to be out enjoying distracting me.

However, there is one problem with taking photos after dusk is that you need to take a tripod with you, or in my case that little connector bit that you use to attach said tripod to your camera. I remembered both the camera and the tripod, but not that little connector bit.

With a little bit of leaning, and a little bit of slow breathing, I think I still did pretty alright.

Anyone else have a favourite time of day?

by Len

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Daniel - Favourite time of the day is any that my daughter goes to sleep January 12, 2010 – 9:27 pm

Kyle - I am a night owl too, I totally feel you. Hence the reason why I’m commenting on your blog at 2am

Beautiful photo, btw.January 13, 2010 – 4:00 pm

Kirsten - This is so incredibly beautiful. My favorite time of day is almost the same – it’s as the sun is going down. I have a sort of obsession with taking sunset photographs. My favorites so far have been the ones I took in Mexico this past December.January 15, 2010 – 2:22 am

Kirsten - P.S. I really love your blog and the “I love Wednesdays”. Very creative!! January 15, 2010 – 2:23 am

William Massey - I think my favorite time of day is sunrise, but only in Summer when it’s really warm in the morning. I too am a night owl, and usually not awake at sunrise, which makes it more special when I am.

Here’s another good one: 3:30 AM. I can ride through downtown of my city on my little scooter and not see a single soul. It’s like being the only person left alive on earth. Unusual but peaceful.January 15, 2010 – 7:15 am

Daniel Dunlap - I’d have to say my favorite time of day changes per the season. In summer my favorite time of day is just after dawn. It reminds me of when I used to wake up at first light and go play baseball with all my friends in the school yard until dusk.

During winter my favorite time of day is midday as the sun is highest in the sky. Where I am from, on a clear day there seems to be no better time of year for a perfectly clear blue sky then in winter.January 16, 2010 – 1:17 am

Vida Carson - Ah my favorite time of day is right before the sun starts to set.. when the light is nice and soft but so golden January 17, 2010 – 4:05 am

Joe Sanfilippo - My favorite time of day as well!January 17, 2010 – 12:49 pm

A Light Filled Adventure // Joanna & Victor

January 12, 2010 Posted in WEDDINGS

It’s crazy how quickly the week passes you by. I really wanted to upload this wedding last week, but things kept coming up and I’ll do it tomorrow, I’ll do it tomorrow somehow turned into a week later. The days are long, but the weeks are short really seems to be applying to the beginnings of 2010. But I’m very glad to have gotten a moment to upload the wedding of Joanna & Victor.

Arriving from the Netherlands the week of their wedding it certainly was quite the whirlwind that was capped off on Friday last week when I dropped the images off to Joanna & Victor the night before they headed out on their cruise. I can tell you that it was kind of a crazy night with lots of mojitos and weird and wonderful conversation. I only wish that I had caught a cab over to their hotel, so I could have properly enjoyed in the festivities.

Hope you enjoy these.

by Len

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