Side A · Track 5 Gallery

Our story, in pictures

From where it all started, to where we are now.

2020 · australia
the great ocean road

Where we met

Harriet, the cream VW kombi, parked at a coastal lookout with the sea and a headland behind her.
A smiling, bearded young man in a skydiving harness on the grass at a coastal skydive center, others waiting behind him.
Three friends standing barefoot on wet sand under a big blue sky, their reflections in the water.
From inside the kombi: the driver’s arm on the wide steering wheel as the coast road curves ahead.
A young woman crouching on the grass beside a kangaroo, more kangaroos grazing behind her.
Two small figures walking a sandy cove beneath a sandstone cliff topped with scrub.
Two friends standing on the sand in front of a golden sandstone cliff face.
Two people exploring the foot of a sandstone cliff, one climbing onto a boulder at the water’s edge.
Turquoise surf breaking around a flat-topped sandstone sea stack off the coast.
The cream kombi parked on a quiet road beneath tall gum trees.
Four friends standing at the roadside in front of the cream kombi.
Small figures at the foot of a waterfall spilling down a dark rock gully.
Friends walking up the path toward a white lighthouse with a red cap.
The coastline from the open door of a skydiving plane, turquoise water and a curve of beach far below.
Six friends on a beach between two tall sandstone cliffs, waves rolling in behind them.
Six friends lined up on the sand beneath an overhanging sandstone cliff.
A laughing selfie of friends in the dunes, drinks in hand, a misty beach behind them.
Friends walking down a steep, wooded track toward the coast.
The Great Ocean Road memorial arch, a timber gateway over the road beneath cypress trees.
The Sydney Opera House from across the harbor on a gray day.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge glimpsed between trees.
A selfie of friends with beers on the back deck of a harbor ferry under gray skies.
A selfie of friends at a bright, crowded Mexican restaurant, two of them in sombreros.
A selfie of friends grinning on board a ferry, one pointing straight at the camera.
Six friends holding up their skydiving certificates on the grass, a skydive flag behind them.
A long table of friends at dinner in a tiled restaurant, leaning in for a selfie.
Two women in skydiving harnesses at the landing field, one holding a small brown dachshund.

autumn · chestnut cove
blue ridge parkway

Newly engaged

Two small figures at the Chestnut Cove overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway, framed by a spreading tree and autumn leaves on the road.
The same overlook from across the road: Ian down on one knee beside the Chestnut Cove sign.
Ian on one knee at the edge of the overlook, Nicole in a denim jacket and rust boots, the ridges fading behind them.
Closer: Nicole’s hand to her face as Ian kneels and holds up the ring.
Ian on one knee, beaming up at Nicole, the open ring box in his hand.
Nicole throwing her arms around Ian at the overlook, the mountains below.
The two of them kissing under the overhanging branches, the valley behind.
Nicole and Ian standing side by side, both grinning, autumn scrub around them.
Nicole laughing with her hands together while Ian smiles at her.
Nicole’s hand held up against the mountains, the new ring on her finger.
Nicole and Ian holding hands and facing each other among the autumn trees.
Nicole and Ian hand in hand, smiling at each other, the ridgeline behind.
Nicole alone at the overlook, smiling and holding up her ring hand.
In black and white: the two of them embracing at the overlook edge.
In black and white: Nicole looking up at Ian, his arm around her.
In black and white, from behind: the two of them holding each other, looking out over the valley.
Ian slipping the ring onto Nicole’s finger, the open box in her other hand.
In black and white: Nicole mid-laugh, hand raised, as Ian grins beside her.
Close up: Nicole’s ringed hand resting on Ian’s, his watch at the edge of the frame.
Their two hands raised together against the mountains, palms out.
Ian hugging Nicole from behind and kissing her cheek, the ridges behind them.
Nicole and Ian walking a leaf-covered path through autumn woods.
Ian holding Nicole close on the woodland path, both laughing.
In black and white: Nicole leaning back into Ian’s arms on the woodland path.
Nicole and Ian embracing at the overlook edge, the valley in soft evening light behind them.
Ian holding Nicole close at the edge of the overlook, autumn leaves at their feet.
Close up: Nicole’s ringed hand resting on the fleece collar of Ian’s jacket.
Nicole and Ian scooping up armfuls of fallen leaves at the roadside.
Nicole and Ian tossing leaves at each other at the edge of the parkway.
In black and white: the two of them crossing the road hand in hand.
In black and white: Nicole and Ian walking toward the camera down the middle of the empty road.
From behind: Nicole and Ian walking hand in hand along a leaf-strewn road through the woods.
Nicole and Ian holding each other on a carpet of leaves beneath tall autumn trees.
Nicole and Ian facing each other in the autumn woods, leaves underfoot.
Nicole and Ian walking hand in hand down the middle of the empty parkway, the trees turning on both sides.
Nicole laughing as Ian leads her along the road by the hand.
Nicole and Ian sitting together on a low stone edge among the leaves, Ian laughing.
Nicole kissing Ian’s cheek as they sit together in the fallen leaves.
Sitting on the forest floor in a drift of brown leaves, in denim and corduroy, laughing at each other.
Close up: Nicole’s ringed hand resting on Ian’s knee.
Nicole smiling off to one side, Ian’s arm around her shoulders as they sit in the leaves.
Nicole and Ian kissing among the autumn trees, her rust boots deep in the leaves.
In black and white: Nicole resting her head on Ian’s chest in the woods.
Nicole and Ian standing together at the overlook, smiling at the camera.
In black and white: Ian kissing the side of Nicole’s head as she laughs, the mountains behind.
At sunset at the overlook: Nicole and Ian kissing beneath the spreading tree.
Nicole and Ian at a mountain overlook, arm in arm beneath a leafy branch, with a pale sunset over the ridges behind them.
A close portrait of the two of them cheek to cheek, one hand resting on the other’s chest with an engagement ring on it.
At the same overlook, one of them holding the other from behind, both laughing, autumn hills below.
Sitting together on the edge of a path buried in fallen leaves, mid-conversation, bare autumn trees behind them.

at home
with the band

Making it home

Nicole and Ian sitting on the living-room floor in matching socks while one of their cats wanders past, yellow flowers on the table behind.
Nicole and Ian on the floor reaching out to a fluffy cat by the fireplace shelves.
Nicole and Ian sitting on the floor, both reaching for a long-haired cat as it strolls across the room.
Ian in a cap sitting in the shadowy front room, a cat at his feet, sunlight through the window behind.
Ian and Nicole on the rug by the TV, a cat stretched out between them and a tall cat tree in the corner.
Nicole kneeling to stroke a big long-haired cat on the wooden floor while Ian watches from the chair.
Nicole and Ian on the couch with mugs, a vase of orange poppies in the foreground.
Nicole and Ian relaxing on a couch draped in a striped blanket, poppies and arched prints around them.
Nicole leaning into Ian on the couch as he sips from a mug.
Nicole and Ian with their feet up on the striped couch, mugs in hand, under two arched art prints.
Ian holding a fluffy cat up by the fireplace while Nicole looks up at them from her chair.
Nicole cradling a huge long-haired cat, Ian smiling at her shoulder.
Nicole setting a toadstool-shaped cookie jar on the table as Ian looks on, a macramé wall hanging behind.
A small disco ball hanging in a window with a trailing plant.
Ian twirling Nicole in their wood-cabinet kitchen.
Nicole and Ian slow-dancing in the kitchen.
Ian spinning Nicole under his arm in the kitchen, both laughing.
Nicole and Ian standing side by side in the kitchen, smiling.
Nicole hugging Ian from behind as he holds a long-haired cat on his lap.
Nicole and Ian close together, smiling down at the cat in Ian’s arms.
Nicole holding a gray long-haired cat, Ian leaning in beside her.
Ian scratching the gray cat’s chin as Nicole cuddles it.
Nicole and Ian cheek to cheek, the gray cat held between them.
Ian standing by the bed as Nicole lies among two lounging cats on a colorful blanket.
Nicole holding a gray cat in a big papasan chair, Ian smiling beside her in the lamplight.
Nicole and Ian laughing on the floor by the papasan chair, the gray cat squirming in Nicole’s arms.
Nicole and Ian sitting against a wall covered in gig posters, her head on his shoulder.
Ian kissing Nicole’s temple in front of the gig-poster wall.
Ian holding a long-haired tabby cat as Nicole hugs his arm, gig posters behind them.
Nicole in a bridal veil at the window, leaning in to a cat on its window perch.
Nicole and Ian in white, cuddling a cat between them in front of the gig posters.
A long-haired tabby cat lounging on the bed beside a gilded ring box.
Nicole lying on the bed under a veil with a tabby cat, a gray cat watching beside them.
Nicole laughing under the veil with a tabby cat that is pawing at it, the gilded ring box in front.
Nicole grinning at the camera from under the veil, the tabby cat beside her.
A hand scratching the head of a fluffy tabby cat sitting on the bed.
Ian and Nicole in white, holding a fluffy cat between them and smiling.
A hand offering a ring to a long-haired tabby cat lying on an orange bedspread.
A ring balanced on the tabby cat’s head as it squints at the camera.
A tabby cat sitting under a bridal veil on the bed, mid-yawn.
A tabby cat sitting under the veil on the bed, looking straight at the camera.
Nicole smiling at the veiled cat, a jar of roses in her hand.
Nicole resting her chin beside the veiled cat on the bed, flowers in the foreground.
Ian leaning under the veil to kiss the tabby cat’s nose.
Nicole and Ian in white sitting on the floor with a jar of flowers, a cat walking past behind them.
Nicole and Ian on the floor, Nicole laughing down at a cat in front of the gig-poster wall.
Nicole holding a jar of flowers with Ian at her shoulder, two big long-haired cats looming close to the camera.
Ian and Nicole in white by the window, reaching down to stroke a cat on its perch.

the raleigh rose garden

Among the roses

Nicole and Ian standing close at the end of a grass path between rose beds, the stone pergola and tall trees behind.
Standing together on the lawn between beds of yellow and pink roses, a long stone pergola behind them.
Nicole and Ian kissing among the yellow and pink roses, the stone pergola behind them.
Framed by yellow roses in the foreground, both laughing at something off to the side.
Nicole laughing up at Ian among the yellow roses, both of them grinning.
Nicole and Ian standing together behind a bank of yellow roses, laughing at each other.
Arm in arm on the grass, with banks of coral and pink roses either side of them.
Nicole resting her head on Ian’s shoulder in front of the pink roses, his eyes on her.
Nicole smiling up at Ian, her hand on his shoulder, pink roses all around.
In black and white: Ian and Nicole standing together in the rose garden, her head on his shoulder.
In black and white: Ian hugging Nicole from behind, his arms wrapped around her waist.
Ian hugging Nicole from behind among the roses, the two of them laughing.
Nicole in heart-shaped sunglasses and a pink feathered veil, holding orange roses beside Ian.
From behind: Nicole in her pink veil and Ian walking hand in hand down a grass path between the roses.
Walking hand in hand along a grass path through the rose beds, one carrying a bunch of orange roses, the other wearing a short pink veil.
Ian carrying an orange bouquet as Nicole, in her pink veil, smiles up at him among the rose beds.
Ian laughing with the bouquet as Nicole covers her mouth mid-laugh beside him.
In black and white: Nicole in her veil laughing as she and Ian walk through the roses.
Nicole and Ian kissing on a grass path through the rose beds, trees towering behind.
Nicole and Ian sitting on a park bench by the garden path, her legs across his, the bouquet beside them.
In black and white: Nicole and Ian sitting close on a park bench beside the path.
Nicole in her pink veil and Ian smiling at the camera among pink coneflowers.
Nicole and Ian smiling at each other among the coneflowers.
In black and white, at dusk: Nicole hugging Ian from behind, both smiling.
Nicole kissing Ian’s cheek in front of deep red roses as evening falls.
Nicole with her arms around Ian’s neck among red roses, a young stem in the foreground.
Ian lifting Nicole off her feet in the middle of a grass path between the rose beds.
Close up: Nicole in her pink veil hugging Ian around the neck, both smiling.
Sitting on the grass in front of a wall of coral roses, with white roses blurred in the foreground.
Ian kissing Nicole’s temple as they sit on the grass among pink and white roses.
Close up: Nicole’s and Ian’s hands together, her engagement ring and his gold band.

one night · the bar

And then, the revelry

Nicole and Ian on green bar stools at Wolfe & Porter, knees touching, the back bar’s bottles glowing behind them.
In black and white: Ian grinning across the bar at Nicole, the pendant lamps above him.
Two espresso martinis clinked together over the bar, his floral sleeve and her red dress at the edges.
Ian kissing Nicole’s cheek at the long bar, roses in a bottle beside them.
Leaning against a bar counter, laughing at each other, an espresso martini and a vase of roses beside them.
Settled into a red couch under a large painting, feet up, grinning at the camera.
In black and white: Nicole smiling over her shoulder in a leather booth, Ian at her side.
Side by side in a booth against a deep green curtain, two espresso martinis and a vase of roses on the table.
Nicole and Ian against a teal velvet curtain, a red rose clenched between his teeth, both laughing.
On a velvet couch beneath a painting, one wearing white heart-shaped sunglasses, the other holding a drink.
In black and white: Nicole in heart-shaped sunglasses on the banquette with Ian, cocktails in hand.
Nicole and Ian sprawled on a velvet banquette under a seagull painting, her arm around his neck.
Close up: Nicole’s ringed hand holding an espresso martini against her red dress.
Nicole curled up in Ian’s lap in a mustard velvet armchair, laughing.
Curled up together in a mustard armchair in a room of vintage furniture and lamplight.
In black and white: Nicole sitting on Ian’s lap in the armchair, head on his shoulder.
In black and white: Nicole and Ian in a leather booth, drinks on the table, Ian beaming.
Close up: their two glasses of red wine side by side on the bar, the couple kissing out of focus behind.
Nicole and Ian standing in a doorway beneath a stained-glass Busch lamp.
In black and white: the two of them in the entrance hall beneath the stained-glass lamp.
In black and white: Nicole and Ian walking hand in hand across the dark bar, drinks in hand.