About

Hello!

My name is Penthea! I’m a photographer and baker. I love to photograph people, places, food, wine and dogs!

I live and work on Wadawurrung Country in Ballarat, Victoria.

I grew up in the seventies when slide nights in the lounge room were a regular source of entertainment on the weekend. Such a treat when the projector was pulled out of the cupboard! My parents were keen travellers and I’d spend hours happily looking through photo albums of their own adventures in the sixties. More photo albums were filled with our own family holidays in the seventies and eighties.

I grew up learning to shoot on film cameras but mostly shoot digital now, with the exception of my beloved Polaroid camera.

When I’m not taking photographs you’ll find me planning our next beach holiday or road tripping somewhere in Australia with the family and our dogs Frankie and Vinnie in our 1965 Viscount Caravan (such a beauty!) Or in the pink door kitchen baking brownies, granola + more for my other business, Vegas & Rose. Once a cafe and now an online store!

Clients

Ballarat Sanctuary, Ballarat Wholefoods Collective, Basilio Sourdough, Buninyong Market, Bridge & Tunnel Accounts, Enbom Honey’s, Flying Chillies, Friends of Ballarat Botanical Gardens, Laura Leslie Celebrant, Lucky & James, Made of Ballarat, Monteith’s Stays, Munash Organics, Plate Up Ballarat, Premier Strategy, Red Series Ballarat, Tegan Crosbie Art, The Cottage Herbalist, The Source Ballarat, Windflower Store, Wonderland by Sophie Renall, Zu Haidressing.

I’d love to meet you, please get in touch and say hello!

xo Penthea

hello@vegasandrose.com.au

0414 783 753

I would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and work, the Wadawurrung People, and pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people.