Since the launch of my first 2 workshops, I’ve been receiving many emails from Photographers from all over South Africa. I know that you guys are waiting for the Cape Town and Johannesburg Workshops, as well as Durban and Nelspruit.
I’m very very excited to announce that I’ll be in New York & London next month…so I’m putting together something called: FUNshops. I decided to re-”brand” my workshops, cause essentially they are not normal workshops. They are totally informal, totally fun and a place where, as Jasmine Star says: You have to leave your ego at home! So the new word on the block is FUNshops!
Like most other people I looooove traveling! I love meeting people, tasting new things (except dodgy things :) and hanging out in places that make me want to take 1 million photos. And this year seems to be the year where all my travels begin. I was very privileged to visit WPPI in the USA in March and hope to return in August to host some workshops. But more about that when things are finalized…for now these are my travel dates and plans, so if you’re interested in a workshop, private lesson or even a wedding or engagement shoot let me know.
As you probably read in my previous post, I had the privilege to host my second workshop a few weeks ago. The most exciting part for most of the girls was doing the shoot. The theme for this shoot was a vintage, country style shoot. Everything came together so beautifully, but there would have been no way I could have pulled it off if it wasn’t for all the amazing service providers that helped me out!
On the 25th of March I hosted my second workshop. It was a fun two days with lots of photo-talk! The idea in general with my workshops are informal (but pretty) get togethers where I share and create a friendly environment to ask questions and learn. When I hosted my first workshop I decided to keep the groups small. By doing this I can spend time with every person and answer individual questions.
Everyone has been asking, so here it is. My 2nd workshop!
Karen & Hannelien from MiraclesPhoto in Johannesburg emailed me a few months ago and asked me to host a private workshop for the 2 of them. After thinking of everything I’d like to cover and do we decided to open up the workshop to 4 more photographers.
I met Nicola and Wynand at church and we just clicked! Nicola loves cooking and loves beautiful things. I’m very excited to shoot their wedding on the 28th of November.
After chatting to Nicola about their wedding, I realized they would be the perfect couple to pose for us on the workshop. They aggreed and so we started planning the shoot. The most important aspect when it comes to an engagement shoot is to ask the couple if they have any interests, things that are close to them or a theme that would bring out their personality. Nicola looked at me with a big smile and then she told me about “THE BUS!”.
The past two weeks have been manic here in the office and for a good reason. I organized my first ever photography workshop! For a long time I’ve been thinking about my career and where I started out, what I learned along the way and where I’m heading and then realized I had something to share with people.
I’m not a super technical person, but I definitely a very practical one. I realized that there is a big need from photographers to be educated, inspired and encouraged in a practical way. So I decided to organize my first workshop. I’m also a one-on-one kind of person and I’m not to keen on a huge group of people, therefore I decided to keep the class small. The idea of the workshop was like a group of friends sitting around a dinner table, chatting about the things they love!
