Film Photography, Photography

Summer Lovin’ Happened So Fast – Phillip Island on Film

Moey Strong

Adventurer/Photographer/writer

Currently based in Sunshine Coast, AU

Moey is inspired by the natural world and how things work. He has recently become a coffee snob as he has ‘matured’ and is trying his hand at learning Spanish

What does love mean to you?

The start of the year kicked off with a gathering of friends, family and soon to be friends at Churchill Island for the ’24 edition of Ocean Sounds. Xavier Rudd the headline act, tapped into another dimension projecting some powerful vocals and instrumentals out into the crowd. An intense presence was warranted and feelings of ‘love’ ensued.

A journal was passed around in the crowd, amidst the spine-tingling performance. With members of of our small but ever-expanding group asked to write down ‘what love meant to them’. Energy attracts energy and with every anonymous message written down, more festival goers gravitated towards our group and seemingly without free-will jotted down a message into what is now known as the ‘love journal’.

‘Love is innate. It doesn’t take large effort or time. It comes easily and is boundless.’

Celebrate it your way

The topic of love became a re-occurring theme throughout the next 3 months with my sister Lu, and her boyfriend Scott deciding to host a ‘shindig’ to celebrate their love, in place of the traditional marriage. Lu and Scott brought a large majority of their closest family and friends together for a weekend of camping, games and activities in celebration of their relationship. Wilson’s Prom was their cathedral and it couldn’t have been more fitting, having spent so much time together there over the course of their relationship.

The idea of marriage comes with a lot of pressure and expectation and is often seen as one of life’s main goals, and in my view or what the movies make me believe? Is that things seem to change upon getting married.

It poses the question why are we so hung up on this idea of marriage and why do we go to such lengths to go ‘all out’.

Thus far, I can confirm after the shindig nothing has really changed, Lu and Scott are still doing the things they love and the one thing they have for each other has remained constant..

Cheers to doing it your way.