In two weeks, these two rad people (Jane & Danny!) will be newly married, and to celebrate, I thought I’d share their gorgeous engagement mini session down by the beach (and maybe also because wouldn’t it be nice if it was summer again!).

After not much sleep, at 6am, the 5 of us piled into a car and headed out to Clifton Beach, where we met their celebrant and got things underway. The heat was searing under one of Cairns’ rare blue skies, but we smiled & laughed our way through the beautiful ceremony and were on our way to find breakfast near Port Douglas not much more than an hour later. 

You have to come back to Australia in the summer. You wake up in the morning with nothing more than a white sheet to cover you and this feeling of warmth in your bones.

A few photos of Gemma & Ben by the Mindarie Marina, for no other reason than to remember these moments together.