Zane and Cherralle’s wedding was a few weeks ago at Simon’s in Groot Constantia Wine Estate. Zane says when he saw Cherralle for the first time, it was truly ‘love at first sight’! And that’s something I could see between the two of them :) Despite the little bit of nervousness I sensed before the ceremony, they were both totally in love and such a lovely couple to photograph!
I’ve always had a dream of shooting a whole wedding in only black and white. Black and white is timeless, striking and utterly gorgeous! Imagine a whole coffee table book only in Black and white. (Holding thumbs one of my clients will ask me to do this one day :) While I was editing Cherralle and Zane’s [...]
Nina and Michael both work on a yacht in the Mediterranean, where they met a few years ago. Nina is a girl from Veldrif, South Africa and Michael is an English boy.
Michael & Nina had their big wedding celebration on Nina’s family farm, Doornfontein. If I remember correctly, the farm has been in their family for seven generations. The wedding had a very vintage, country side and personal touch. Nina walked down the aisle in her grandmother’s wedding dress, which was very special! Then later during the afternoon she slipped into another vintage dress, her mom bought at a second hand shop. The dress was made out of beautiful antique silk.
Some of you might remember this couple from one of my first workshops. Daniël and Andrea are friends of my sisters and they went to varsity together. When I needed models for my workshop a few years ago, Lydia (my sister) suggested that I ask them. So, the two of them modeled for the workshop and I totally fell in love with them! They are SO CUTE! Totally adorable and super in love! A photographers dream!
As promised, here are some behind the scene photos of last month’s workshop. Thank you so much to everyone that attended and also a big thank you to Maree Louw from Natural light Photography for taking these photos.
Anneri and Pieter met at University in Stellenbosch. They booked me for their wedding in March 2011 and afterwards decided that they want to do an engagement shoot as well. Funny thing is, the first three times we tried to do their shoot the weather was just no good. So we had to postpone it every time. Last week I woke up to some clouds and wind and couldn’t believe that we might have to cancel again, but this time it cleared up and we had a gorgeous shoot on Pieter’s family farm.
In the first week of October I hosted another workshop here in Stellenbosch. This time the theme for the workshop was fun, quirky and very colourful. In general I tend to go for the very simple, down to earth colours, but this time I challenged myself to do something a bit bolder. :) The funky flowers were done by Mariette from Varsliefde and the decor and stationary by Anelle from Seven Swans.
Pretty things make me so excited! I did my embracing ‘happy dance’ once I downloaded these images, because it was just SOOOO PRETTY!!!
Nicola and I spoke about the idea of doing some styled shoots for The Pretty Blog some time ago and now it finally became a reality. This theme was ‘Boere chick” in our fields of gold. The shoot was done in a big open field on a friend of our’s farm. The grass was nice and long and poor iaan struggled with hay fever, as he helped with the setup. But he didn’t mind the sacrifice, all in the name of ‘pretty things’ :)
Some of you might have seen my post on Facebook and saw that I moved from Canon to Nikon.
So now you all want to know how it happened and why I moved. Before I tell the story, please let me just say this. With this post I’m not intending to offend anyone or slander any brands, but purely share my experience.
I’m a loyal brand evangelist. When I love a product or service, I always talk about it.
So weeks ago, something happened I never expected…
When I looked at my calendar, I saw I had two couples this month with the names Andreas and Nina. At first I thought it was a mistake, but then I realized I actually had two couples with the same names. And they were both from Germany. How strange :)
Nina and Andreas got married in Germany last month, but decided to fly their wedding clothes all the way to South Africa, to take some more pictures in Cape Town, on their honeymoon. I met them at the Fire and Ice hotel in Cape Town. One of the most funky hotels in the city.
For their shoot, I tried to include some city landscape, as well as the gorgeous sunsets we have here in the Western Cape. I love the one lucky shot, where the birds flew over them as I took the photo. :)
