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{1} Love Autumn | Tree Hunting in Surrey

One of the highly kept secrets (well at least to my family) to the reason why we went to Surrey three weekends ago was partly to see Godalming… but the main reason was to do an autumn shoot.  Together with my love, against the beautiful backdrop of fall colours… this is something which I've been meaning to do!  And now that it's the perfect season to do it, I figured I had better do it this autumn otherwise I need to wait for another year.  After much persuasion, K finally agreed and went along with this crazy idea (Gabby told me "omg he's an angel!").

I did some research before our trip to Singapore on who we could get to do it and finally settled for Hajley whom we originally engaged to do our wedding photography.  She later passed on our "assignment" to her associate Ben who did a fantastic job.  Being repeat clients, she agreed to give us a really good price this time - hallelujah!

After roaming about Godalming that beautiful Saturday afternoon, we picked Haj up from the train station at 3pm and off we went!  This place in Surrey is stunning, and comes highly recommended by Jixian.  It's not big though, he told us it was probably the size of Hyde Park in London.

So we just received our heart shaped USB drive full of pictures and we were very pleased with how the photos turned out.  Even K agreed so!  I am so, so glad we did it because these are memories built to last.  My brother commented it's like engagement shoot take 2 which I can't deny ;)

I can't pick my fav because I love all of them.  Here are some of my top choices and a little recap of that afternoon...

With this view to start with, we knew we struck gold with the location

We took loads of photos that afternoon and were pretty much tree hunting for the 2h we were there, looking for beautiful trees to take pics at.  Turned out there were so many beautiful trees that we just went from one to another, until we realised time was running out because the sun was about to set in no time.

A painting in front of our eyes.  How wonderful is God's creation?
His colour scheme for autumn is just perfect.

We took a map of the place and started with the lake house, the main attraction

We had to wait for a while for the crowd to dissipate before we could take these few shots

At the lake house
A fuzzy nose rub

I was ambitiously wearing heeled boots but gave up halfway cos it was pretty slippery from the rain the day before

By the lake


Looks like a wheat field but it wasn't

Red + Green + Yellow all in one.  We took loads in front of this tree.

Loving the colours here.  This was a massive tree with lots of yellow leaves scattered on the ground.

Haj was looking all round for the perfect tree log for us to sit down on

This felt like walking into a painting.  Dreamy sigh.

We were chasing the sunset.  Love the sun's rays on this one.
And then Haj said "it's a wrap!"

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Evelyn said…
Wow so nice the sceneries, love all the photos😊
God's creation- so beautiful!
9 November 2014 at 08:24
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