JP and Kirsten
Bless JP and Kirsten’s little hearts – they got married in Johannesburg which meant I had to climb onto a plane. I need you to know that I was exceptionally brave for the two hours it took to get there, not questioning whether or not the pilot knew what he was doing even once. When [...]
Quin and Claudia
When I first met Quin and Claudia to discuss their wedding, they came across as a very quiet, gentle couple. When I shot their engagement shoot in Franschhoek, ditto. When I shot their wedding in Stellenbosch and then out at Nelson’s Creek, ditto. But there was something going on here! Because believe me, when the [...]
Christiaan and Marine
Meet Christiaan and Marine, all round good guys. I love shooting family portraits, I love the solitary feeling one gets when shooting a landscape at 5.00am in the morning, but nothing quite floats my boat like a day amongst good family and friends at a wedding. Everyone smiles, the groom pretends to be cool and [...]
Ludolph and Suzanne
I don’t often get all that jittery when a bride of mine starts to run a bit late. But I did start to watch the clock tick down in Suzanne’s case and did a bit of ‘okay, we really need to rock things on a bit here’ prompting. She had about 15 minutes to go [...]
Paul and Victoria
I can speak English. I can speak Afrikaans. I can even speak a good dose of Xhosa. And I’m even starting to throw around a bit of French, Portuguese and Italian thanks to some of the couples I shoot and their diverse groups of families and friends. But here, for the first time ever at [...]
Marianne and Thomas
When I packed my gear for Marianne and Thomas’ wedding at Val d Or, I went about my normal routine, checking and double-checking I had everything I needed. batteries, cameras, lenses, flashes and so on and so on. Then I did something different. I packed 3 extra shirts. It was 10.00am and outside, the mercury [...]

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