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live your dream and wear your passion.

{via heyamberrae}
I stumbled across these words tonight and felt compelled to share it here. I normally put these things I find up on my tumblr blog but this I thought was worth sharing on this blog too :)
Hope you have a great weekend xoxo

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lizzy and mike

The speech Mike gave at his wedding reception was one of my most favourites I ever heard. I think I will remember his speech for the rest of my life. His words resonated with me. His speech was about luck, how he once read a paper on the characteristics of lucky people and how Lizzy...

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paris

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pretty things + photography workshop

Ive just had the most amazing last two days… I’ve just finished up teaching 3 photography workshops down in Albany.  I put on two small workshops yesterday and today was an all day workshop for professional photographers. I feel like I only started scratching at the surface of the things I wanted to share and...

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exmouth

My films from Europe have finally been developed and scanned! Nothing is more exciting seeing images appear on my screen that I took months ago and reliving it all. I love that mystery about film and something I definitely miss about the days when I just shot film. I just saw these few frames on...

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ursi + michel . switzerland

Ursi and Michel contacted me to see if I would do a beloved session of them when I was in Europe last month. Of course I said yes! We spent a few days with them in Switzerland, they took us to many amazing locations and we had the loveliest time with them and their two...

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reshma + ben

I first meet Reshma and Ben three years ago when they booked me to photograph their wedding in 2007. A few weeks before their wedding I went to their house to do their engagement portrait session. Almost three years on, they invited me over again to photograph them a few weeks before the arrival of...

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perth bride + grooms

The Wedding Workshop!

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Photography Workshop for Young People

As part of GSFI’s SCOPE program, I am putting on a photography workshop for young people in Albany, Western Australia (my hometown!) on Sunday, 22nd August 2010.
“In this exciting and inspiring workshop with Perth photographer Samm Blake learn how to find your own artistic style, how to shoot manually with a camera, how to use...

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Rosa and John {beloved}

Rosa and John make me smile :) I had photographed their wedding a few weeks prior to this beloved portrait shoot. They had not seen their wedding images yet and asked if they could book in a portrait session. That made me smile :)
Rosa and John asked if they could do their portrait shoot in...

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Rosa and John

I got back from Europe a week ago and just realized my blog has been a little neglected for the past 4 weeks. Europe was completely amazing…!! more to come on that soon :)
I shoot with film cameras whenever I travel so im waiting for my films to come back from the lab. Until then,...

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in love.

I’ve fallen head over heels in love with Italy. This is the view I woke up to this morning.

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away

I am heading to Europe and will be back in the office on the 26th July. {All emails will be responded to on my return}. Stay tuned.

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I have a new portfolio site!

Yesterday morning when I woke up, I didnt imagine I would have a new website by the end of the day. The idea of the new website hit me at around 1pm and by about 1am the new site was launched. My creativity always comes at most inappropriate times. I have so many deadlines to...

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ANITA + TRAVIS . PART 2

Part 2 of Anita and Travis! They were married on a Sunday and a few days later on the Wednesday, we meet up again to continue the photography goodness. I remember the very first time I met Anita last year she told me so wanted to include her two beloved beagles somehow in her wedding...

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