Nevertheless, we do love couples of such practical disposition and Chris is really looking forward to what will undoubtedly be a fantastic country wedding on March 10th. The farm is stacked with character filled corners for photography and we expect to see a broad brimmed hat here and there!

Chris had a nice little gig recently – photographing a couple of Hobart’s eating establishments for Nicholas Lander’s column in London’s Financial Times Magazine. Lander is quite the food writer and is widely followed in the UK. He ended up in little Hobart because he’s being doing a roundup of dining out in Australia and he particularly liked Hobart’s Tricycle cafe and Smolt restaurant. And, no Chris says he didn’t eat Tricycle’s breakfast trifle after photographing it!

I spent much of January undertaking the wooden boat owner’s biennial duty… painting, Alicia, my couta boat. There was a reward at the end though as we motored 4 hours up the Tamar to Launceston’s Wooden Boat Rally. Alicia bop-bopped (she has a 70 year old engine!) her way up the river very happily and I had a great time, but it was Charlie who really had her sea legs on display. She loved it! She constantly did laps of the boat, barked at every seagull and cormorant and took pride of place at the bow proving that A. she’s a great seadog and B. she is really in command of the vessel!