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Annie la Rue Photography bio picture

hi, i'm annie...

Welcome to my blog.... I am a contemporary lifestyle photographer who splits my time between East Coast, Australia and Singapore.  

You can find my website portfolio here ... but this is the place to come if you'd like to see what I've recently been doing, listen to my random ramblings and sometimes see what's going on in my life.

After spending the past four years based in Singapore I have now returned to Canberra, ACT.  I still travel to Singapore every 12 weeks or so as well as servicing Sydney & Rural NSW.  If that doesn't cover you - just ask!  I have been tempted by Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and even Brunei before!

If I had to describe my style I would say; honest and true.  I love to capture the true essence of a moment.  I thrive on capturing honest connections, with the camera but especially with each other, the true honesty that is a family, a friendship,  and love, sometimes warts and all!  

...thanks for stopping by... come often and please feel free to leave a comment!

 xA

 

emma + nic | photobooth

Part II of Emma & Nic’s wedding… the very very fun part!  Start with an awesome bride & groom, add the best wedding guests ever, a box of rockin props and what do you get…awesomeness!!

As I mentioned before nearly all the wedding guests at Nic and Emma’s wedding traveled a long way to share their day with them and I say, what an awesome way to capture your wedding guests…and these guys truly brought it!  Emma gave the best new talent awarded to the rubber chicken….totally very well deserved.

A very small selection of my favorites from the night…

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you can see the rest of the craziness here.

emma + nic | married

It was a perfect day in tropical Singapore, it was warm without being overwhelmingly hot and a rare cool breeze occasionally blew through and blessed the day.  It was always set to be a perfect day, Emma & Nic were getting married.

I had only met Emma once before she asked me to document the most important day in her life but I felt already like I had known her forever.  She is one of those people that can’t help but ooze gorgeousness, that kind of beautiful genuine gorgeousness right from her soul through to her skin and she has truly met the yang to her ying, Nic.  This was reflected by the distances that 90% of the wedding party traveled to witness this perfect matching, with people travelling from all ends of Australia, and even London.

This wedding had been many months in the planning and I was so happy to see it unfold just like the day, so perfectly.

Thank you Emma & Nic for asking me to document such an amazing milestone in your lives and thank you especially for being you; full of love, kindness, joy, warmth and a particular special kind of gorgeousness. Much love and thanks xxA

Emma’s divine gown was from Angeline Baccini of Baccini & Hill, and it truly was…dee-vine!

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Emm choose to get ready at The Club, a new boutique hotel that has opened in Chinatown on Ann Siang Hill, it could not have been more perfect. I just love these photos of the preparation, Emm’s girls where all they could have been…and more.IMG_3033IMG_3078-76IMG_3235-60IMG_3266IMG_3304-84IMG_3329

Emm & Nic chose to meet before the ceremony and I think it is so worth it, to share moments like these… _MG_4387_3368IMG_3370-4402

Angela from by the branch did a stunning job with the flowers including Emm’s bouquet.

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rawr gals…

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Emm you are truly gorgeous inside and out…

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Very funny part two to follow…. AND a huge shout out to my man Craig (check him out here) for being my run around guy on the ground when I missed my flight and being there to second shoot with me, it was a blast and can’t wait to do it again some time!

emma + nic | sneak peek

I know many of you have been wondering what has happened to me (yes, you mum!), so I thought I had better check in with a sneak peek of the divine tropical wedding I have just been to Singapore to photograph.  I can’t wait to post the rest and catch up on all of my other blog posts… I am working double time to clear the back log and thank you again to my wonderfully patient clients (you know who you are…the ones wondering where your photos are! ).

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the serene little soul…|baby

The name sounded familiar but when I walked through the door I instantly remembered…I had met Tilley’s mother a long long time ago…a lifetime really, I had worked with her for at my very first interior design firm.  It was only a short time, it was work experience whilst I was still at uni, so yes a lifetime ago!  one thing I did remember is how lovely she was,  so sweet and kind.  Well as they say and in this case it’s true…the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree…

This is Tilley…you just spend a little bit of time with her and soon see…she has such a lovely spirit.  So tender and sweet.. she’s a gentle observer, taking the whole world in with those beautiful big blue eyes, that darling smile and her serene little soul.

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dribble love | kids

After Charlene’s session I received an email from her mum, Patricia saying… it was lovely to finally meet, it was like we were long distance penpals who finally got to meet…and that’s exactly how it was.  I received my first email from Patricia many many months ago, well last year in fact; she wanted to buy her husband a gift voucher as a surprise gift for their baby who had not long arrived…and that’s how it started.  We had a few failed attempts at meeting up and many emails across the seas and from there a lovely friendship formed.  I really do have the best clients in the world!  and in truth as much as I love photography, it’s the people that get me every time!

And so this is Charlene…those beautiful brown almond eyes and perfect skin and  let’s not forget about that dribble…I love it!  I have many parents asking me…can you clean up the dribble…and i will reluctantly do it… I love baby dribble.  To me it’s so what a baby is all about, when will you ever again have the excuse?!…so dribble away young things, It’ll always make my day.

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Oh my how I love brunette girls in red dresses… if you are into girly girls the clothes at Chateau de Sable are too gorgeous.  Just like this little number Charlene has on… Oh they also have divine winter coats!IMG_0929IMG_1052IMG_0708-98IMG_0685

Oh If your looking for me I’m in Singapore… x

hana | birthday bash

I love a birthday bash and loved Hana’s.  I last photographed Hana when she was an itty bitty newborn and it was amazing to see how she had grown in a year.  You can see a little glimpse of her on the right here

Hana delicately ate the strawberries from the top of her cake and then required a bit of encouragement of the mummy plough her hands into it kind before she got the idea but I think you can see she got there…

If your wondering where Hana gets her divine looks from her mummy is Kiwi (New Zealander that is…) and dad Japanese… both talented architects but Hana is their best creation so far!  I mean seriously she is dee-vine and a sweetie to boot!

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Love the icing you can see flying here…

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…and the salute to the cake gods!  hooray!

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This post is a bit of a tease as sadly I no longer offer this type of first birthday bash in the pink palace as I no longer shoot in a studio but if you have a nice plain background and lots of light you could give this a go anywhere like we did for Finn here.

(Yoshi and Yvette it is WAY overdue but hope you finally enjoy, before Hana turns two! xx)

cool kicks | life

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these are Freya’s cool kicks…I love them…they make me smile, they brighten up a cold winters day, but looking at them now, I realise they mean so much more…she is growing up so fast.

I am so guilty of mentally speeding up her life; fascinated sometimes to the point of obsession about what she will be… what she’ll look like… what she’ll love and hate… if she’ll be a fashion obsessed teen, a book worm, an athlete like her father or rebel against me completely, turn emo and hate her mother (btw. I have guessed the later)… I even measured her height this week; you know the rule of thumb about doubling their height at two…and I had even read somewhere that for girls that it is more accurate at 18 months…this week she was 22 months and it’s another thing I just had to know… it was 1 cm taller than me, it was a surprise I thought it would have been taller…

Maybe it’s just because I can’t stand the suspense… I was one of those first time mothers that found out the second I could about her sex…I had an amnio so they could tell me for sure (this btw was NOT the reason I had the amnio – just had to clarify…)…but I’m still guilty.

It’s been a tough adjustment in the last month; I no longer have the buffer of my wonderful mother.  I’m facing sole single parenting for the first time, just Freya and I… as well as trying to run my own business and chase my tail.

She is all of a sudden so independant…she no longer gives me kisses and cuddles…(M. Freya can I have a kiss…F. nah…M. Pleeease…F. noooooo…), she is using more and more words (this week it’s train, plane and rain which probably only a mother can decipher)… starting to dress herself (well much better at the undressing…)  and stamping her independence by refusing to get in the bath or have dinner (ah witching hour!)…

I have realised while looking at this photo… it’s time to I need to be a better mum… know my limitations, spend less time saying no Freya mum is too busy, stop stressing that I can hear her now in her bedroom saying oh no..which means instead of sleeping she in throwing her teddies on the floor… or throwing everything out of the plastics cupboard for the third time today (because that is the only one without a child lock)… be more in the now…

what do they say…life’s a journey, not a destination…and in the meantime they are cool kicks…

and to all my clients that have been so patient during the transition thank you!  and to anyone still out there, thanks for sticking around!

angela + tim | married

I have been terribly behind in my blogging..

you may remember tim & ange from here… I will admit, we had stunning light for their engagement shoot, I was in love, they were in love, the light was full of love!  We were stoked that two weeks later we would be doing it all again…the week was divine but the forcast was not great…how could it be possible, but it was…it poured…cats and dogs pour with no end in sight.  The outdoor ceremony had to be rushed indoors, the details and decorations at Yarrh winery, that Ange and Tim had been working on for weeks, were missed; but weddings aren’t about the weather…they are all about the love, and Tim and Angela brought it as did everyone in the cellar!

…so we snuck back out in the following weeks and the sun found us… and it filled us all with love again…

when I catch up I will also give you a peak of their ceremony but I couldn’t resist posting these…

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a special thanks to Chellie of CH Floral Design for the divine bouquet.

fun comes in four | kids

from the minute I walked in the door these guys were funnnn!  I mean like crazy fun! I think you only have to take a look at their session to get the idea.

The problem (I should say challenge…) was it was pouring rain this afternoon… good ole Singaporean tropical down pour but that didn’t dampen these guys spirits.  This family is just full of happy juice, it was oozing! We laughed, we jumped, they tickled, they rumbled…and we even manged to break a bed…oopps!  it was madness…just like any good family session should be!

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hello how gorgeous btw are these children…..?? something tells me it’s in the genes…

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thanks guys for bringing the magic, I had a ball!  I hope Olivia found somewhere to sleep!

last weekend I… | married

no it’s not me who is married…!  but I was in Sydney helping the lovely Angie Peady shoot the divine wedding of Danielle + Mark.

I was so honoured to be a part of their day. It was such a beautiful wedding to share with two beautiful families… I will even admit to tearing up during the wedding speeches.

This is small selection of how their day looked through my lens…

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I could not resist posting this photo of the one of the attendants I mean really!?  what a cutie patootie!  His eyes were actually the colour of gold…

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Rain makes for beautiful wet shiny reflections like this…

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my favourite shot of the day… between trying to hold a camera, an additional spotlight, camera bag and umbrella, it was my Tim Gunn moment. I’m glad I persisted.

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