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TMPhotog: Cosmos<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column bg_color=&#8221;#FCFCF8&#8243; column_center=&#8221;true&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<div class=\"spacer\" style=\"height: 40px;\"><\/div><div class=\"single_image wpb_content_element align-left    \" data-animation=\"none\" data-delay=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graphistudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BEN-CONNOLLY-web.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"BEN-CONNOLLY-web\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graphistudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BEN-CONNOLLY-web.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.graphistudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BEN-CONNOLLY-web-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.graphistudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BEN-CONNOLLY-web-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.graphistudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BEN-CONNOLLY-web-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"spacer\" style=\"height: 40px;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row class=&#8221;ambassadorbg&#8221;][vc_column bg_color=&#8221;#FCFCF8&#8243; column_padding=&#8221;padding-4&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Ben Connolly is a Queensland based, Internationally acclaimed Wedding Photographer, Speaker, Educator and Photography Judge. Ben is the Founder of Ben Connolly Creative, a\u00a0boutique wedding photography studio based in Australia focussing on weddings and working\u00a0with over 50 couples per year, with a Photography career spanning over 22 years and over one\u00a0thousand weddings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ben is the 2025 Australian Creative Photographer of the Year, the highest ranked Australian in 4\u00a0International Photography Competitions and has been named in the World Top 100 Wedding\u00a0Photographers for the past 5 years. He is a competition Judge, has spoken to audiences in\u00a0Australia, USA, Japan, Malaysia the UK and is a Brand Ambassador for numerous photography\u00a0industry companies world wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After a near fatal skydiving accident in 2002, Ben shifted focus to weddings and developed a\u00a0passion for the use of flash and creative lighting in his work. Creatively, Ben is drawn to creative\u00a0lighting techniques and the more technical side of crafting beautiful imagery. Ben&#8217;s photographs\u00a0are bold and colourful with an unconventional mix of detailed posing, creative lighting and off\u00a0camera flash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ben also has a passion sharing his photography and business learnings, along with his\u00a0successes and failures to help others better understand photography and business to enable\u00a0and empower them to bring their unique visions of photography and success to life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ben does this by working with photographers and business owners one on one or in workshop\u00a0settings worldwide to give them advanced photography skills, strategic business direction,\u00a0creative inspiration and the creation of systems and processes to create sustainable, profitable\u00a0and successful businesses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;full_width_section&#8221; top_padding=&#8221;40&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;40&#8243; class=&#8221;ambassadorbg&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo Gallery<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html css=&#8221;&#8221;]JTVCd29uZGVycGx1Z2luX2Nhcm91c2VsJTIwaWQlM0QlMjIxNjYlMjIlNUQ=[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;full_width_section&#8221; bg_color=&#8221;#00000000&#8243; class=&#8221;ambassadorbg&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;padding-1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;navtoppageleft&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_color=&#8221;#00000000&#8243; class=&#8221;ambassadorbg&#8221;][vc_column bg_color=&#8221;#FCFCF8&#8243; width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text] Ben Connolly [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;nocaps&#8221;] Wedding Photography MPhotog: WPPI, WPE, AWPA. 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