We are launching the site today after a very long week and I hope you like playing around with all the new features.
Sarie Bruid is one of my favourite South African bridal magazines! The summer 2009 issue is my favourite thus far. The magazine is filled with “real weddings”! One of these real weddings is Adel & Juan’s wedding that took place in Kalkbay earlier this year.
Thanks to the Sarie Bruid team for featuring this wedding! And to all the up and coming brides, you definitely need to get your hands on this issue!
The team at Charly’s Bakery was so kind so sponsor my workshop with a beautiful wedding cake. The cake was suppose to be photographed, blogged about and at the end I was going to supply them with some fab photos of the wedding cake. But unfortunately the cake never made it to my house, as the driver had to make an emergency brake and there tha cake flew all over the car…so then I offered to do another shoot for Charly’s. As they say all things happen for a reason and so I ended up being Charly’s official photographer for the Loerie Awards this year!
The Loerie Awards is the most prestigious advertising awards in South Africa. The Loerie Awards recognize and reward creative excellence.
Elsa and Albie have been together for quite some time, but never have they been together for more than a week. Albie works in Polokwane and up and till the wedding Elsa was located in the Western Cape. It was a long distance relationship, but on the 19th of September all of this changed!
What a great wedding to start off my 2009/2010 wedding season!
When I met Monica for the first time I instantly knew this relationship was going to become a friendship! Monica is one of the most down to earth an friendly photographers I know in the industry!
While I was waiting for Daniella and Steward to get ready I took a few cute shots of Daniella’s niece. She’s adorable!
Daniella contacted me a few weeks ago to shoot their wedding in Plettenberg bay, unfortunately it didn’t work out, but when she read about the “trash the dress” session on my price list and she was very interested. They got married on 09/09/09 and then returned to Cape Town, before they return to the UK.
The couple lived in Cape Town for some time and fell in love with it. Doing the shoot in the “signature” areas of Cape Town, such as the colourful houses in the Bo Kaap and Long street was their ideal setting for the photo shoot. Daniella loved the idea of putting on her wedding gown but to trash it was not really the idea :)
I’m very excited to announce the launch of a very stylish online wedding magazine, MonCheri! My photos of Adel & Juan’s wedding was selected as the photography feature (see page 44 – 48) as well as used on the front cover. Double yeh!
The MonCheri magazine is only one of the many services offered by the MonCheri team. They can co-ordinate your wedding from scratch or if you’d like to co-ordinate your wedding yourself, they can assist you in selecting the service providers that suit your style. MonCheri believes in the magic of weddings. After the founding of their “Wedding Emporium”, the idea of an online magazine was born. It’s a free online magazine and a great tool for all the brides to be. They include many tips and ideas so have a look at it here.
Aleit and Madri adopted a gorgeous baby girl a few months ago. Yesterday I had the privilege of photographing Kateline in their beautiful home in Somerset Wes. I was so excited when I saw that black and white wall, as well at the stunning little pink table! How gorgeous is that picture?!
Carmen, Carla & Kerry asked very similar questions, so I’ve made up a combined question and hopefully a constructive answer to all of you :)
“I want to ask you a few questions on how you got started. How do you start to get clients? What kind of advertising would you suggest? Did you use any advertising or is it all word of mouth? How do you differentiate yourself from all the other photographers out there?”
