You just need to have a reliable car, a mobile phone, a good knowledge of music, be able to talk and work with people and be available to work most weekends!

If you’re looking at becoming a DJ, or if any of you know anyone who is looking for DJ work, please visit this link to find out more details, and here is his website too if you’d like to have a look at what kind of work he does - www.dj-brad.com.au

Please everyone share this around! What an awesome job, and DJ Brad is amazing, you’d love to work with him :)

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Not only will you see my photography work, but you’ll also see other photographers, sculptors, drawers, painters, jewellery makers, illustrators and more. I’m sure you’ll be inspired by the talented styles we all have and it’s wonderful to see everyone’s take on the theme Forever Young.

The exhibition will be on from November 30, 2011 until January 21, 2012 at the Pine Rivers Art Gallery (199 Gympie Road Strathpine). The gallery is open Monday to Saturday 10am – 4pm and will be closed over Christmas from 4pm Friday the 23^rd of December and will open again at 10am on Tuesday the 3^rd of January, so make sure if you’re coming to see the exhibition, it’s not when it’s closed.
So be sure to come down and check it out. You won’t be disappointed!

I’ll also be uploading some of my photography work from recent shoots, that I’ve been really slack on blogging about, so stay tuned and watch this space for updates! :)

Marie Walter (an exhibiting artist) and I with my work

Me with my work. And also the video Geoff Franklin and I did together with Marie Walter and Peter Wieland, called “Coin Laundry Love”

My amazing boyfriend, Geoff Franklin, and I in front of my work :)

Mum, Dad and me, in front of my work

6×4” prints that I have displayed as examples of some of the other work I do, for people to take, and some business cards.

A shot of some people mingling at the opening night

On the 24th of November I was invited along to the 100 Creatives Party that Jenica Smith threw for the first 100 creative people that she interviewed and that were featured on the Design Montage site.

It was a privilege to be a part of such an awesome event. She had food and drinks for everyone at a cute little cafe in Woolloongabba called Desmond and Molly’s.

It was great to finally meet Jenica and see other artists mingling and networking. And here are a few photos that Marie took that night!

Marie, Jenica and I

The beautiful Marie and I

And my amazing boyfriend, Geoff and I

If you’d like to see my interview again click this link – http://designmontage.com.au/2011/07/laura-tuton-photographer/

I’m going to be in an exhibition at the end of the year, exhibiting some of my photography. Instead of showing my old/current work, I wanted to actually start fresh and come up with new body of work for this project but I need your help.

The theme for this exhibition is Forever Young. And the concept for my project is just that, Forever Young. Instead of exhibiting young people doing young things, I want to display the older generation doing young things and being Forever Young.

So if you have a Grandma or Grandpa, Mum or Dad, family, friends, anyone, who is over the age of 60, you can nominate them to be in my photos for this project.

My idea for this project is to have them doing things like:

-      An older couple, who have been together for years, still inlove now (so maybe high school sweethearts holding up a framed wedding photo)
-      Older couple, enjoying an icecream with heaps of hundreds and thousands all over them or eating fairy bread.
-      2 older men, playing xbox or a computer game of some sort.
-      2 older men/women or both, riding bikes or skateboarding.
-      An older couple swinging on the swings, or riding those rocking horse type things at a park.
-      An older man playing with matchbox cars on a big car play mat. You know those ones with all the streets and houses on them?
-      2 older people trying to take a photo using the webcam on a laptop.
-      Couple taking photos in a photobooth.

Anymore ideas are most certainly welcome :)

So if you would like to be a part of my project or know of anyone or would like to nominate anyone, if you have that perfect larrikin grandad who would have a ball riding a skateboard down the path/street then please let me know.

Comment below with their name and age. I also need a photo of them too so if you have a link from a photo of them on your facebook be sure to copy that link in, or alternatively all images can be emailed to me via my email here – info@lauratuton.com

Also, these photos need to be taken within the next month. So we don’t have much time to find our “young ones” and do each shoot with them. So get nominating! We need to have all shoots done by the 8th of November, as I need to then edit, print and frame them before they get sent to the gallery. Oh and all the grandmas and grandpas or whoever are featured in the photos, will have an invite to the exhibition as well so they can see their photo up on the gallery walls :) The exhibition starts on the 30th of November and the opening night that they’ll be invited to will be on the 2nd of December at 6pm.

Lets have some fun with this :) Get nominating!!!

The photoshoot ended up happening very late in Tracey’s pregnancy, so with it being right in the middle of Summer, you can imagine how hot, tired and out of energy poor Tracey was by the end of the day!

Despite the hot weather, I think we got some great images out of the shoot, and it was lovely to share this moment with the two of them.

Here are some photos from their pregnancy shoot. Let me know what you all think! :)

Trent and Tracey went on to have a baby boy and they named him Kaden James. He is a healthy and beautiful baby and I wish them all the best as they start their life together as a cute little family.

I also had the opportunity to take a few piccies of their family and here are a few sneak peeks of little Kaden from our shoot.

Some of my work has been published in some pretty big magazines! YAYYY!

A recent client of mine had asked to use the images as ads for her business, WyldSpice, and I was very excited to hear that they were being used in magazines like Madison, Shop til you drop and Cosmopolitan.

They are just small ads, but my photos are there and my name too, so it’s really great to get a little bit of exposure.

If you haven’t bought the magazines, take a look at the pics below and you’ll see my little photos there :)

Madison Magazine – August issue 2011

Shop til you drop Magazine – September issue 2011

Cosmopolitan – October issue 2011

I had the pleasure of working with some amazing and beautiful people, Marie Walter and Peter Wieland for a recent photoshoot where they acted in a video that Geoff Franklin and I put together.

I have been wanting to do a video like this for so long but haven’t found the right couple or models to act it out for me. With that said, i’m soo glad that I found Marie and Peter, and that they were willing to act for me.
I think they performed so brilliantly and i’m soo happy with the results.
It’s actually the first video that Geoff and I have done where we haven’t captured behind the scenes, we have actually storyboarded out a video.
So i’m really excited to share this all with you and I hope you like it.

Credits

Photography & Director - Laura Tuton

Videography - Geoff Franklin

Models - Marie Walter and Peter Wieland

Makeup & Hair - Marie Walter

Stylist - Tonie Cavanagh

Locations - Take Care Laundry Services, Caboolture and Cafe da Cruize, Caboolture.

Music - Coin Laundry by Lisa Mitchell and Heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez.

Thanks for watching. Enjoy!

It’s a great website with loads of talented and creative people, and you’ll be sure to find some inspiration on there for your next project.

Visit www.designmontage.com.au or if you’d like to see my feature article visit http://designmontage.com.au/2011/07/laura-tuton-photographer/

As you can all see, my site has had a little make over. Geoff Franklin from Exist Online has done a wonderful job revamping my site with a fresh new look.

You’ll also see that I now have a blog, which I will be using to keep you all updated with my recent Photoshoots, Weddings, Events, Videos and any other news and info regarding my photography.

Please take your time to browse through my new blog site and feel free to let me know what you think!

Loreta and Chris found my site on google and contacted me wanting to get some nice photos together which they would use to play on a projector at the reception after their wedding in early 2012. How sweet! :)

The day didn’t really go according to plan, well the start of it anyway.
I was supposed to meet with them first, and then Belinda MacPhail, our makeup artist, was to meet us there for Loreta’s makeup. But I didn’t end up getting there until Belinda had just finished her makeup. That was because of my car, she decided to play games with me and not start. Luckily now, I have a much better car :)

Anyway, after all of that, it ended up being a great photoshoot, with clear skies and sunshine.

Check out the photos from our shoot at the Roma Street Parklands in Brisbane, and let me know what you think :)

Credits

Photography – Laura Tuton
Hair and Makeup – Belinda MacPhail
Portraits of Chris and Loreta
Location – Roma Street Parklands, QLD