Perth Hills
wedding photographer

Jarrah and marri, granite, long valley views and a sky that goes on forever — and all of it within an hour of the city. The Perth Hills are where Perth goes when it wants a wedding that feels like it’s somewhere else.

We’ve photographed weddings right across the Hills: Jamie & Anthony’s at Anderson Point in Brigadoon, looking out over Walyunga National Park, and Melissa & Gavin’s at a private bush property in Mundaring, about forty minutes east of the CBD.

Hills light is the thing to understand. Under a jarrah and marri canopy it is contrasty and it throws green onto skin, which is unkind to faces if nobody is managing it. Out in the open, on a ridge or above a valley, it is the opposite — wide, clean and generous in the last hour of the day. We use both, and we plan the day so each happens at the right time.

The bush changes hard across the year. After winter rain it is green and soft; by February it is dry and golden. Neither is better — they are just different weddings, and it is worth knowing which one you are booking.

A lot of Hills weddings are on private property, and that changes the work. There is no venue coordinator and no established photo spots, so we find them: where the light falls at four o’clock, where it will be dark by the speeches, and where the festoon lighting needs to go.