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Monthly Archives: February 2015

Frozen

I always wanted to do a shoot with the movie theme "Frozen". One of our little models at the workshop loves "Frozen" and had her dress on, so I got my opportunity.

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Head Shot

I presented a workshop on portraits and lighting. This was one of the images I got at the workshop. Thank you to all the people and models who participated.

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Head Shot

As I was preparing for the workshop I will be presenting, I revisited some of the images I took on a previous workshop I presented. It can sometimes be challenging to get nice head shots with reaction.

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New Born

A week in the studio will not be the same if I don’t have a few new born’s visiting the studio.

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Gulls

Composition is always playing a role in photography. I had two images of these gulls – this one where they are facing each other and the other they were facing the same direction. I felt that this one had the more impact.

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Sleeping Baby

This little one came for her two month shoot. As she was sleeping we dressed her as a tortoise.

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Sunset

I revisited some of my archive holiday photos and discovered this one. It was during our 2008 Cape town holiday.

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Crawling

It is amazing how fast babies grow up. It feels like just the other day I photographed his six month shoot and now he is already crawling.

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Taj Mahal

The well known Taj Mahal is located in Agra, India. It was built in perfect symmetry.

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New Born

This little one was born a little pre-mature, so I did his shoot a little after two weeks.

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Sechaba & Mosili

Sechaba & Mosili are busy planning their wedding. This was one of the photos of their pre-wedding shoot.

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Tomatoes

Tabletop photography helps to practice some lighting techniques, such as these tomatoes dropping into a water jar to light up the water.

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Mydi & Ipeleng

Mydi & Ipeleng had their wedding at Tuscan Rose. As usual, my favorite time of the day is at sunset.

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Henk & Kirsty

Valentine’s Day has always been special to this couple. Now it will have an added anniversary to it. Congratulations Henk & Kirsty!

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Faces of India

There are so many of my travel photos that I would like to share, therefore the theme for this week will be "Faces of India". I always like to photograph people when I travel.

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Nono

As usually it was a busy Saturday at the studio. Nono came with her mom for a photo shoot and I did some single shots for them as well. This was one of Nono.

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Crab

On the beach there is usually some crab activity. This image was taken on the beach at Umkomaas.

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Michelle

Michelle is Mrs Bloemfontein 2015, congratulations!! It was such a lovely shoot, where I did her hair and makeup.

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Sleeping New Born

I have set up a new baby shooting area in the studio. It is close to a window for natural light shooting.

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Ta Prohm

Ta Prohm is one of the temples in Cambodia. The trees have invaded these old temples over the years as it was left deserted.

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Baptism

As a photographer I also have the opportunity to be a capturing witness to special occasions such as this one – Mia’s baptism.

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