Hey legend!

Let me tell you a little bit about myself and how I have landed as a documentary style wedding photographer and for awesome couples across Australia.

Originally from the ‘burbs of Brissy, I have had a long running love affair with photography from the day I was gifted my first film camera by my folks when I was 12 years old. I would fill roll after roll of film of my friends, pets, family holidays and selfies before selfies were even a thing.

I followed my passion for film through my high school days and once I graduated, I hit the road for the big open spaces of Outback Queensland. The bush, woolsheds and life with a shearer is where I spent the next 15 years of my life. I filled my days working in agriculture and documenting how vastly different and adventurous my life was from my city days with my camera. There weren’t many days that weren’t recorded on my camera.

I’ll fast forward 15 years of my life for you and fill you in on the events that shaped my career and life. They were becoming a mother to the coolest little dude I have ever met, Travis and travelling across Oz for 2 years shooting, mumming and living a nomadic lifestyle. The pandemic hit, I settled briefly in south-west Queensland. I have now come full circle, back to my roots and have landed back in good ol’ Brisbane with my little man and camera gear in tow.

Those 15 years were also filled with shooting weddings across Australia, documenting the lives of families on the land (check that chapter of my life out here at Chantel Renae Photography), nabbing the front cover of RM Williams Outback magazine, Queensland Country Life, a book and Graziher magazine. It’s been fun and has shaped the direction and vision for Mia and Bella Photography.

My contemporary, adventure filled, sunset chasing life has shaped all of this.

M&B is here for couples who are fun and care about what their life feels like, not what it looks like to others.. Those who live for good times and higher vibrations. Awesome couples who aren’t afraid to get a little crazy, take risks and party till the sun comes up. I am totally here for all of that - you guys are my people! Telling the stories of love that runs deep and lives that are being well lived is my jam. Documenting it all honestly, without setting up for fake shit and what things ‘should look like’. There’s none of that here.

Just real love stories. Your real lives. The story of you, the one you want to be remembered.