rules of engagement...

A lot can change in less than a year! 

Last September my favourite person in the world surprised me in Sydney Park by asking for my hand in marriage... Since then, we've planned and celebrated our Australian wedding and honeymoon'd down the east coast of Oz, among our usual hectic social and sporting calendars... : ) What a life!

So it was on that sunny September morning, I was surprised with bunting, bubbles and a slightly blubbering Lucy Higgins asking for my hand in marriage... LOVE...

You can read more about Lucy's proposal story here!

bondi black and white...

Ahhh Bondi Beach you are a cruel bitch at times...

This may look like a relaxing, picturesque summer afternoon, but what's not shown is the hour plus drive to cover 5km and the hour plus wait for a schnitzel in the local RSL in an attempt to avoid the same traffic on the return journey... Never again...

strikers on tour...

So last year, I played my first full season of 11 a side football with the Collaroy Cromer Strikers. Well, almost a full season... Sadly, I tore my MCL in my right knee, in the week before the grand final... Which we won, along with the minor premiership... Sigh...

Anyway, to celebrate an awesome season with a bunch of awesome peeps, we ventured north to Forresters Beach and enjoyed a lads weekend of drinking, FIFA on Xbox, drinking, playing beach football and... more drinking... Super stoked to have ended up on a team full of such ace peeps! CC!

 To the beach/pitch!

 Game on!

 For a hard earned thirst...

 Male models...

 Football fwends...

 The long walk home...

 Party crashers...

 Let the games begin...

 Captain's discussions...

Lights out!

one night in paddo...

Summer evenings, Shady Pines and the Darlo Laundromat... Simple pleasures with the fam...

 Breeza!

 Elvis!

 No entry...

Seriously, NO ENTRY! : )

2230 airways...

I spent a lot of my late teens and early twentys hanging out in the 2230, surfing, filming, drinking and partying... Some of the best times and peeps of my life... It's funny how certain places and people align themselves with one another and Cronulla and Margaret River certainly had something going on... 

I always love flying above places I'm familiar with on the ground, but flying south from Sydney is really something special... The coast looks like it's jaggedly cut straight out of the sea, there's the history of Botany Bay, and to see Shark Island breaking from the air never ceases to spark the imagination...

Big love to all my 2230 brethren!

when lucy met lucy...

They're both as cute as each other of course! : )

Some photos from a Quin Family visit last year...

Sleeping Lions fo lyfe!

 Two Lucys?! Too much!

 Golden godparents...

 Oh heeeeey!

The cuteness...

take a load off...

When waiting for your bags just becomes too much...

barossa...

I was lucky enough to visit the beautiful Barossa Valley last year as part of a job for Lilydale Farms, assisting ledge Sydney photographer Paul Blackmore. Though we were working just outside of Adelaide, a cricket match in the city meant all the hotels were over booked and over priced, leaving us with (sigh) no option but to crash at the Barossa Novotel... When life gives you grapes... ; )

Shot on my favourite film, Ilford 3200 with the "loveliest shutter sound around" Olympus OM1...

a colombian birthday down under...

My good friend Juan celebrated his birthday a little while back now on a scorching day at Shelly Beach. Vibes were high with smokey BBQ styles, good tunes and a great crew... I took the trusty Kiev 60 with me and cross processed a roll of Provia 100, just to mix things up for a change...

I remember feeling very sentimental about being Australian this day for some reason...

Sea, salt, sunshine and a smokey BBQ will do that I guess!

 No shrimp here... : )

 Birthday boy...

 Cooked...

 Stralya...

 Triathlon sun scars... 

Aussie babe...

work and weddings, rehab and recreation...

Fair to say it's been far too long between blog posts...

In the months between, I've managed to rehabilitate a torn medial collateral ligament in my right knee, sustain an enjoyable and always enlightening career as a photo assistant and digital operator with some of Australia's best photographers, plan the party of a lifetime where I married the girl of my dreams in the company of some of my finest family and friends, and... play a lot of football!

I've got loads to catch up on and, given a couple of quiet days, should soon have a regular feed of images and occasional words for your consumption... 

I'll also be trying to integrate this blog and my Instagram a little more (also @lessthanasecond) so have a look there if it's your preferred method of scrolling...

Hope you enjoy... I'm looking forward to sharing...

Star and salmon collab below care of the always fantastic Paul Suesse... @paulsuesse