weddingphotographerswa - Broome & North West

Leon James Mead was born in 1966 in Adelaide, South Australia. Living in Goolwa, a small town on the River Murray, he spent much of his youth exploring the River by canoe and catamaran, photographing this seaside environment and learning to appreciate the fine things in nature. His photographic career began at the local paper, The Victor Harbor Times, employed as a cadet photographer. He then moved to Adelaide 18 months later finishing his cadetship at The Adelaide News. Much of his press work included Papal tours, Royal visits including the Queen, Lady Diana and Fergie, Grand Prix's and other Adelaide events. Following this, he moved to The Stock Journal and wandered South Australia photographing the farmers, station owners and rural life. During this time, he won several awards for his photography of South Australian rural life. News Ltd and The Adelaide Advertiser was the next place of employment where he worked for 8 years as Senior Photographer and Sunday Pictorial Editor. Highlight events included the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, East Timor crisis, and Manchester U.K for the Commonwealth Games. Currently Leon is living a real life "sea change" in Broome with his wife Beatrice and two young sons, James and Luke. Leon shoots using a Canon Eos 1ds digital camera, state of the art digital technology combined with G5 Macintosh desktop computer, giving super high quality photography.