Quarry Farm
wedding photographer

Quarry Farm is a 200-acre property at the foot of the Darling Range, less than an hour south of Perth. From 10am until 2am the whole place belongs to you and nobody else — and that one fact changes how the day feels, and how it photographs.

Most venues run to somebody else's clock. Quarry Farm doesn't. There's no room to turn over and no second booking waiting, so nothing has to be rushed — which means we can take you out at the moment the light is right, rather than the moment the schedule allows. On a property this size that matters more than couples expect.

It's also a rare thing to find four completely different backdrops within a short walk of each other. The Jacaranda lane, the old shearing shed, the enormous wild fig, and the open paddocks with the range sitting behind them. Nobody loses forty minutes to a car, and the pictures still don't repeat themselves.

We photographed Nyomi & Kortnee here in February, and a Perth summer afternoon is genuinely difficult light — hard, high and unforgiving until late in the day. The answer is shade and patience. We work the fig and the shearing shed through the worst of it, then move out into the paddocks once the Darling Range starts throwing shadow across the grass.

Then the Homestead takes over. It's rammed earth and glass, and those floor-to-ceiling windows hold the last of the afternoon long after the sun has gone behind the hills. Once the Edison globes come on the whole room turns warm, and it photographs beautifully without a flash anywhere in sight.

We've shot Quarry Farm twice now — Nyomi & Kortnee in February and Nat & Shanni in July — and the two days looked nothing alike. February is hard, high summer light that has to be worked around; July gives a low winter sun that runs straight down the tree avenue and throws shadows the length of the paddock. Both galleries are below, so you can see the same property in two seasons before you pick a date.