It’s me, Julia (or Jules, if it feels right).
A Coffs Coast photographer for weddings and families and all types of love stories.
My path to photography happened slowly, and then all at once.
I grew up with cameras in my hands. Not the fancy kind though — the disposable film ones that you used to get at the supermarket. I wasn’t a child prodigy who always knew they wanted to be a photographer. I didn’t even know that was possible.
But I did know that cameras helped me hang onto the magic in each moment. That they could immortalise the smile on my sister’s face. Or the soft whiskers of a new foal. Or the last time dancing with a friend before she died.
And I knew that knowing how to use a camera properly would mean preserving those moments exactly as I saw them — with all the emotion and context and worthy-of-a-song-ness that I saw in them. So that’s what I did.
And now I get to help other people hang onto the magic in their moments — from the big days like weddings to the extraordinary, ordinary days at home with the people they love.
Isn’t that miraculous?
Things I know to be true about photography:
It can change the way you see yourself.
Photography is giving yourself to an artist for a little moment in time. And there’s magic in seeing yourself the way they see you. Trust me.
It can be loads of fun. Seriously.
Even if you’re terrified by the idea. I’ve had people arrive in tears and leave loving on themselves. I make photoshoots fun and I’m really proud of that.
It should be done often with everyone.
We don’t know what life is going to throw at us, how we might grow and change. That makes these moments and people profoundly important.
It can be part of the memory-making.
It’s not just about documenting memories — a great photoshoot can help create them too. By bringing people together in joy and celebration.
I have a big imagination and a tiny house.
I live in the countryside in an off-grid box on wheels with my partner, an absurd amount of fish and two oversized dogs. I grew up on the Coffs Coast then spent a decade away in Brisbane, London, various hostels in Europe, and Melbourne, before the mountains and the sea called me home. I like hiking, scuba diving and being terrible at surfing as much as I like strong tea, staying in bed with a fantasy book and doing absolutely nothing.
