I got the honour to photograph the wedding of another couple this week, Debbie and Wilfred.

This one was at a beautiful castle.

Here a sneak peak.

Ok, I went to Amsterdam too, yes, couldn’t help myself, tomorrow to Rome

Seen that two people hired me to shoot their wedding in Holland, my sister (who is assisting me) got all in a  romantic mood. She told me she just had her 11th anniversary last week, if I could take photos in her wedding dress, but now 11 year later, also with her little lovely family.

The first wedding shoot in Holland (of the two) went wonderfully well! Such nice people, beautiful inside and out! Monica and Dave

more to come soon.

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The handsome Groom

The lovely couple – aren’t they just so handsome together?!

Tomorrow to Melbourne to head to Holland until the 16th September.

people were “complaining” that this blog takes long to load, so I decided to give it a good clean out!

Everything older than a couple of months will be deleted from now on to keep the site fast and accessible for everyone, also those on dial up (ancient but unfortunately it still exists)

Baby Shoot

Got a call a couple of days ago to do a shoot for a health magazine. Subject Rowie Schulz.

She is a personal trainer and business owner of Essential Fitness in Alice Springs.
She was the personal trainer of the TV Show “The Biggest Loser” and I was asked to photograph her in a desert landscape.
Went down the old south road and photographed her in the “Golden Hour” see here the result.

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APPARENTLY tonight and on the night of 12-13 AUG there will be a meteorite shower, after midnight north east in the sky.

I went out tonight and only saw 3 shooting stars, while there I took the opportunity to photograph the Milkey Way for my family in Holland.

Second shot a plane flies through

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Photographed a lovely Family last Thursday. Here already a sneak peak for the mum and dad

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Had to photograph head shots for political posters

Barbara Shaw – the Greens
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And Ken Lechleitner – First Nations Political Party
www.firstnationspoliticalparty.org (I also made his website

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We did the annual world photo walk, organised by Jennifer. http://worldwidephotowalk.com/walk/alice-springs-nt-australia/
We walked from Anzac Hill through the Todd Mall, pas Mbantua and straight to Gloria Jeans’ for a coffee

I entered this photo

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Sara and Greg a nice couple from the UK.

Did their “wedding” shoot, well actually it was a renewal of the vowels, but just as romantic!
They have 3 cute kids all boys, so much joy and laughter that day.

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My dream just come true last night! I will get to shoot a wedding in a real castle!

A very friendly man contacted me if I was interested in shooting his wedding on the 8th of September 2010. How lucky I was…. because I will just be back from Rome the 7th.
It is in a very nice castle “Kasteel Heeswijk” www.kasteelheeswijk.nl

YES PLEASE!

Today I photographed a little newborn and a couple with two dogs. Talking about unpredictable shoots…..

The couple was amazing! Jacky and her husband with their two fur kids (who were like real little kids, anything but co operating lols but soooo much fun!). They are flying back to their homeland the USA next week and they wanted a last memory of Alice Springs

We went for a 4WD to the river and found a nice big old white river gum.
(more to come soon)

I had the opportunity and privileged to photograph little man Brian Keogh for the first time of his life.

Had been following Jess and Adrian’s pregnancy for 6 months.

More pics to come of Jess’s belly

For people that don’t know, ID Photography stands for Illustrating, Design and Photography.
I studied Advertising and Multimedia incl. photography at uni in Holland love it.  Worked as a web designer in London for years and have done of advertising work too.
Love the variety of the two (photography and design) and yet are very closely related to one-another: Composition, layout, colour etc etc.

Not doing much designing work lately (besides restyling my whole website and BLOG) so I decided to design Kens’ “First Nations Political Party” website. http://www.firstnationspoliticalparty.org
He needs a website that has the same colours and colour scheme as the logo (that he designed).

Territorian poster is same as last years, using my photo of Old Undadoo station and my friend flying over

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We went back to Trephina Gorge today, Jennifer wanted to see it too.
Of course I took this opportunity to take some new shots

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Did the wedding today of Kate and Tom at the Nature Theatre of the Desert Park.

What a fantastic day that started with a full moon on the horizon after the wedding that finished off with a Lunar Eclipse

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Today I gave my wedding website a facelift my BLOG will be next

My neigbour told me there was water at Trephina Gorge, so my partner and I went there to have a lovely Sunday Afternoon. Please view Large
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Just made a decision, when I am in Holland I will also go and visit Amsterdam and Rome
I must see Amsterdam for stock photography, must see family, must do 1 wedding (non relatives). Then Rome then “home”

I only have 3 weeks in Europe, Family is the main reason for my stay
I will shoot so much……….

Can not wait to see the creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel painted by Michael Angelo. For those who don’t know, I also studied European Art History for 4 years at the Uni for Advertising Design and Multimedia in Holland. I can not wait to see his art in real life!!!!
More of my drawings:

http://www.idphotography.com.au/Art/

A last minute call on Thursday  for a wedding on Saturday 15 May. For the beautiful Sonya and her handsome man Daniel.
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I am adjusting Mark and Rita’s wedding shoot

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Sunrise over the Alice

My photo of Larapinta Drive in the West MacDonnell Ranges has been published on front cover road atlas

http://www.booktopia.com.au/the-australian-drivers-atlas-2010/prod9781741173208.html

Original photo

Times are good to me right now.

The editor of the Australian Traveler Magazine called me if they could have some wedding photos.
They are going to feature my central Australian Ayers Rock resort photos in their honeymoon section with Ayers Rock resort as a honeymoon destination. (No rock in the photos as this is not permitted by the local indigenous people)

YEHAA!

My photo has been featured in the Australian Traveller Magazine

http://www.australiantraveller.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4628

Todd and Kelly Howel

Hi people, FINALLY I have had the chance to index the 2010 material range digitally. Have a look at the fabulous new Italian leathers and heaps of non leather possibilities.
http://www.yourday.idphotography.com.au/Cover_materials_IMG/Album%20Materials.jpg

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/mcintoshr/BeccaAndRobertWeddingVideo?feat=email#5474475748986786578

Hes CUTE and Adorable and sweet and cute and cute and cute and tiny and only 2.5 kg and has got long feet and a dimple in his chin like daddy has.

Born on Mother’s day! 2010

Cheers

Holland here we come!

I booked my holiday for the 21st August till the 14th September 2010! Flying to Holland to see my family. Someone who saw this announcement on a Dutch website booked me to shoot their wedding on the 27th August.
How amazing!

The shoot will be here: http://www.daelenbroeck.nl Yehaa, I can’t wait.

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Today I had the honour to photograph Jess and Adrian together! 4 hours long from 3 pm to 7 pm!
Having photographed Jess and Adrian’s wedding last year and Jess for the last 3-5 months following her pregnancy this couple is definately my favourite! Definitely definitely!
It was quite an experience having them both in this maternity e-session.

Here is the result:

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Rita finally got her white dress wedding shoot she always wanted, her sweet husband Mark and I have been organising this shoot for the last 3 weeks over the phone between Hong Kong and Alice Springs. Thanks to Amanda Bartels who was so kind to loan the dress (because of a public holiday Bliss wedding dress shop was closed) for us this lady’s dream came true!

Thanks Amanda!
You made their day!

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Ayers Rock in the background, so cute

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What a wedding!

Amazing scenery here in the heart, the soul, the centre of Australia.
And the effort we had to go through to get there by car. Knee deep water over the roads and nearly got stuck. Pooring down with rain and heavy winds, dark dark skies. But when we finally got there after a 5 and a half hours drive (450 km only) the skies cleared up and the sun appeared, out of the blue. As if it had been waiting for us to have a fantastic setting for the wedding. We climbed to the top of Kings Canyon to have some great scenery shots. Luckily the bride and groom were ultra fit. Back within the hour and 15 minutes just in time for the ceremony.

At the end of the shoot / ceremony the wind almost blew the cake off the table. Me and my assistant Jenn had to protect our cameras from the dust storm and the wedding coordinator managed to save the cake. Walking back to the reception of the hotel it started raining so heavily that we had to do the last 200 m by car. How incredible that we had a clear and almost sunny sky throughout the whole ceremony and shoot!

The skies were so incredibly great, I couldn’t have hoped for more! Location, location, location!

Wedding of Kelly and Darren
3.45 pm
Up to another lovely wedding today at Trig Hill at the Telegraph Station.

This beautiful bride is getting married in an orange dress, nice and striking against all the green grass we have now after all the rain.

7.30 pm
Back from the wedding. How amazing did this bride look! and there was a rainbow too! She was wearing real Singapore Orchids in her hair and in her bouquet.

Aren’t they just a gorgeous couple.

And then the Rainbow appeared, two of them !
This must mean something. (see what was left of it in the right top corner 2nd photo)

The lovely couple Erica and Johnson from Hong Kong got married at Ayers Rock Voyages resort, 3 April 2010. The wedding was at sunrise (6.45 AM) It was very early morning for us all at 5.30 AM we started doing the getting ready shoot.

The bride looked great!, a nice ceremony with her father and a tea drink session. Great family and a stunning sunrise. What more can I say than that I loved this shoot!

A collection of wedding photos taken over the year, by ID Photography.
You can CLICK THE IMAGES to scroll through them manually

Always handy when you can take photographs it is just so incredibly beautiful down south.

Enjoy

Jess is now 6.5 months pregnant. I am following her pretty much every month since she was 3 months pregnant.
She is looking very good I must say, we are all wondering what it will be, a boy or a girl?

A Thorny Devil
We carefully picked it up and put it in the bush.
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Look what we “found” sitting on the middle of the road on the Lasseters Highway to Ayers rock.
For Sale

I am now a three times and a bit local of Alice, YIPPEE. I have seen this event 10 times now in the last 4 years.

Early this afternoon at about 2 pm, I checked out Wiggly’s Waterhole and met my friend Ref. John Boundy there.
Like me, a photography fanatic! Crazy enough to stand there in the soaking wet rain risking our cameras.
Though my 5D MKII and L lenses are all 1/2weather sealed thank god. Pooring down, seriously wet. Slippery rocks on my thongs.

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He showed me how to 4WD through puddles. Lol.  Took this for stock photography
Now it was really really raining hard! I got soaked wet to my skin.
Camera still ok.
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Then at 5.45 pm the river finally came in
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Alice Springs Todd River coming in

So, finally finished those photos of the AUQF conference 2009 (Australian University Quality Forum)
Dinner at Ooraminna.

My photos are Digi watermarked.  Using these photos without my permission is a serious offence and action will be taken.
COPYRIGHT JOYCE VAN DIJK

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Hi there!

wow, finally after 3 weeks of hard work and late nights (2am ish) my website is finally done.
Please have a look at www.idphotography.com.au

See ya.

Joyce