Gus and Gek travelled to Perth from Singapore especially to shoot their pre-wedding in the Lancelin Sand Dunes. They’re about 1 hour 45 mins drive north of Perth and we’ve been travelling to shoot our couples in Lancelin since 2013. It’s a friendly coastal town and the locals are warm and welcoming so if you haven’t been, I suggest you check it out!
Lancelin has a reputation…
Gus and Gek travelled to Perth from Singapore especially to shoot their pre-wedding in the Lancelin Sand Dunes. They’re about 1 hour 45 mins drive north of Perth and we’ve been travelling to shoot our couples in Lancelin since 2013. It’s a friendly coastal town and the locals are warm and welcoming so if you haven’t been, I suggest you check it out!
Lancelin has a reputation as a great place for sand boarding and 4WD fun. Many thousands of tourists world-wide travel there to hire a board and surf down the fine white sand or get into one of the dune buggys. As far as Lancelin pre-wedding shoots go, it started when a couple sent me a photo of a white sandy desert and asked:
“Can we shoot in the Australian desert?”
I don’t think they quite realised what the Australian desert really looks like. We do have dunes, but the sand is a deep red and the temperatures are scorching. Not to mention we have killer snakes and prickly spinifex grass. The photo they sent me was actually taken at the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, USA. So the best alternative I could offer was a visit to Lancelin and it started a love affair with that place that has allowed me to win multiple Fearless Awards and Grand Prize runner up in the 2018 International Wedding Photographer Of The Year Awards.
Gek is a professional model and normally we’re specialists at making everyday people look amazing. In this case it felt like cheating as I was learning things from her by observing the way she contorts her body and plays it up for the camera. In our pine forest shoot she was adorned in a gown by Berta Bridal worth $15,000 and I was sending her back and forth through the scrub! She challenged me to see if I could give her dunes, forests and Stars all in one day. Mission accomplished!
Here are some favourites from their day.
Photos by JASON TEY
