I’m probably right when I say these two words freak out any photographer! With the digital world of photography this has become a reality. But no fear…the chances that your photos are totally lost when a card goes corrupt is very slim.

I’m a HUGE apple supporter! Apart from their products’ great usability and features, their design just make me want all of them. Not only do they design great products, but they also package their products so beautifully! I promise this is not a apple commercial or anything, I’m just trying to make a point. Design is really, really, really important. The better your design in your company, the more people will want it. It’s important to have a good business card, website & stationary.

(As some of you know, I’m busy revamping my site with a new look and feel, together with that I’m getting some pretty hot business cards! They should arrive next week, just before I’m off to Europe YEH! The site will still take some time..as they say: Good things takes time!)

If I remember correctly Doelie and I made about 4 bookings, before we eventually got together to photograph her two kids. With winter drawing near it becomes more and more difficult to get good weather for family shoots.

Thank you to all the photographers that responded to my previous post on the up and coming workshops. I’m very excited and I’ve starting to plan them…I want it to be very informal, fun and interactive. With lots of photos, examples and practical experience.

I’ve set up a basic questionnaire that will help me to get a better idea what you’d like me to cover. I’d like to have a few different ones. A full weekend workshop, 1 day sessions and a private sessions, but it all depends on you guys. So please fill in the questionnaire so that we can get the ball rolling.

Thank you for your help. I’m very excited to meet all of you!

Today I’ve made a very long list of “things to do”. I only have 2 days to finish sooo many things and I can hardly think how I’m going to get to all of it. But in the back of my head is a very exciting holiday with a friend of mine, that will take place from the 20th of May.. only 14 days to go! We’re going to Paris for 2 weeks and I can hardly wait. At the moment my mind is a mixture of “swine flu! AH!”, “what should I pack?” and “carrying that heavy camera all over the show..but there is no way it’s staying behind!”.

I also have 2 shoots in France that I’m really looking forward to! But you’ll have to wait till I come pack, because there is no editing taking place on this trip!

If you want to follow me on all the trips coming up and see a sneak peak of what’s up, follow me on twitter. It’s great for photographers, to share and learn and just bounce ideas of and to get to know people form all over the world.

I spoke to a few up and coming photographers the past few weeks and they all had similar questions regarding how to get your name out there. How do you start. How do you get customers etc.

As I mentioned in the post below I do get quite allot of emails where photographers ask me how I edit my images. I don’t see myself as a photographer that over edits my images. I only like to ad a bit of punch to them. When they come straight out of the camera the colour seem to be a bit dull and I like my images to have a touch of SUPER WHITE and some pitch black. I posted these images yesterday and I’d like to show you what a little of editing can do. And by the way, I do 99% of my editing in Adobe Lighroom. I hardly ever go to Photoshop.

This morning I woke up with an idea. It’s not really a new idea, but I wanted to run it by the photographers that read my blog and firstly test the waters before I go ahead with it.

The past few months I’ve been receiving quite allot of emails asking me about how I edit, shoot etc. So now I’m thinking of having my first workshop! How exciting! I’ve learned so much in the industry and would love to share it withyou guys!

I recently saw this clip by Zack Arias on Jean Pierre’s blog and I had to re-post it. This clip is a must see for any photographer! It speaks about the mind of the photographer. It might sound a bit depressing in the beginning, but listen to the whole thing. It’s actually very encouraging…

I really can’t believe I haven’t posted about this yet! But December was probably the crazies month of my life so far. I had 6 weddings in 1 week. So no wonder I got a bit side tracked and never made a post on my meeting with Gene Higa :)

I’m busy cleaning up my desktop and I came across these fun pictures of Gene Higa, Ann Hamilton, Jean Pierre Uys, Iaan van Niekerk and me. And then I realized I never told anyone…well now you know: I MET GENE HIGA & ANN HAMILTON :)

My friend David Jay hooked me up with Gene and Ann when they were over here in Cape Town to shoot a destination wedding. Gene and Ann shoot together on most destination weddings, even though they are both photographers in their own right.