Elk and Fir Photography

12/06/2026

11/05/2026

Mumma’s come in all shapes and spaces.
Biological, chosen, grieving, healing, trying, holding on.

All I know with absolute certainty is that motherhood is one of the most important roles there is. It asks everything of you. It stretches you, breaks you open, humbles you and somehow still fills your heart in ways nothing else can.

It is the most challenging role… yet the most rewarding.
The years are long, the moments fleeting, and somehow one day you look around and realise the chaos you once craved a moment away from became the very heartbeat of your life.

Today I hold close the mothers with full hands and the mothers with aching hearts.
A warm hug to those remembering their angel daughters today, those carrying love with nowhere physical to place it, and those quietly surviving days that feel impossibly heavy.

Motherhood never leaves us.
Love never leaves us. 🤍

22/04/2026

Okay… so I need to tell you about this one.

What looked like a photography workshop on the outside…
was actually something really, really special.

Our couple, Phil and Nataly, were celebrating their 10 year wedding anniversary. And instead of making it about the cameras (which there were plenty of 😅), we quietly made it about them.

A slow walk into the mountains… ummm yes, 11km slow heheh.
Getting ready together, behind a blanket, facing out to the world.
Reading words they probably hadn’t said out loud in a long time.

And honestly… it never felt like a shoot.

It felt like we were just witnessing something really real, very sacred and private… in the most gentle way.

But here’s the part I didn’t expect…

In holding that space for them, it also gave us space.
To play with our skills.
To try something new.
To learn off each other… and we are so grateful to our couple for that.

Because yes… this is the part people don’t always realise…

My workshops aren’t about me standing there “teaching”.

They’re about me guiding you through how I’ve done things… and then collectively, we learn from each other in real time.

And honestly?
That is gold.

That’s the part I care about.
Not the “perfect shot”… but creating something that actually means something to the people in it… and to the people witnessing it too.

So yeah… a workshop on paper.

But in reality?
Two people choosing each other again, ten years later, out in the Blue Mountains.

And a group of creatives, quietly growing alongside that.

I just feel really grateful to have been part of it 🤍

Thank you Phil and Nataly for trusting me with something so special.

If you’re a couple sitting there thinking “this is exactly how we’d want it to feel”…
come say hi 🤍

and | or a TOG? Well, if this feels like your kind of “classroom”…
I’ve got you 🤍

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22/04/2026

Okay… so I need to tell you about this one.

NOW on the Blog! (🔗 in bio)

What looked like a photography workshop on the outside…
was actually something really, really special.

Our couple, Phil and Nataly, were celebrating their 10 year wedding anniversary. And instead of making it about the cameras (which there were plenty of 😅), we quietly made it about them.

A slow walk into the mountains… ummm yes, 11km slow heheh.
Getting ready together, behind a blanket, facing out to the world.
Reading words they probably hadn’t said out loud in a long time.

And honestly… it never felt like a shoot.

It felt like we were just witnessing something really real, very sacred and private… in the most gentle way.

But here’s the part I didn’t expect…

In holding that space for them, it also gave us space.
To play with our skills.
To try something new.
To learn off each other… and we are so grateful to our couple for that.

Because yes… this is the part people don’t always realise…

My workshops aren’t about me standing there “teaching”.

They’re about me guiding you through how I’ve done things… and then collectively, we learn from each other in real time.

And honestly?
That is gold.

That’s the part I care about.
Not the “perfect shot”… but creating something that actually means something to the people in it… and to the people witnessing it too.

So yeah… a workshop on paper.

But in reality?
Two people choosing each other again, ten years later, out in the Blue Mountains.

And a group of creatives, quietly growing alongside that.

I just feel really grateful to have been part of it 🤍

Thank you Phil and Nataly for trusting me with something so special.

If you’re a couple sitting there thinking “this is exactly how we’d want it to feel”…
come say hi 🤍

and | or a TOG? Well, if this feels like your kind of “classroom”…
I’ve got you 🤍

19/04/2026

Okay but like… can we just take a moment for pine trees 🌲 because WOW.

This sweet little engagement session with Geoff & Kirsty honestly felt like it was written for all of us some how!

We headed into the Redwood Forest in Vic — which already had my heart because, hi, pine trees are basically my personality at this point, but THEN Geoff casually mentions… this is where he proposed (well near by) 😭

I mean??? Stop it.

Have you ever been to Redwood? I did not even know it existed!

So there we were, wandering through these towering trees, light peeking through in that dreamy way, and these two just slipping back into that moment like it all happened yesterday. It felt quiet and magic and a little bit like time paused for a second.

Also me in the background internally screaming....

Honestly… a match made in heaven all round if you ask me ...

Geoff & Kirsty, you two are just the loveliest kind of humans … the soft, giggly, completely-in-your-own-world kind. The best kind. Always. 🤍

🌲🌿

31/03/2026

PART TWO of our wildly in-love couple Vanessa + Tnee.

You just feel it!
Right?

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