I place a huge amount of emphasis on fun when shooting my weddings. When people are enjoying themselves they relax, and when they relax they become their natural selves. It’s a simple philosophy which allows me the room to capture people as they really are. Take this photograph as an example – it’s actually not posed – it really happened quite spontaneously. I was on my knees talking to the girls when the chap in the sunglasses ran up behind me and pulled me over backwards. As I regained my balance he ran over to Yana, grabbed and pulled her. I shouted at the girls to pull Patrick (the groom) so that she couldn’t be carried away! They responded, I hit the shutter button. We got the shot. It all happened in a few quick seconds!

These 3 shots of Yana were also completely un-posed. She was playing around at this old broken down cottage that I found on the grounds at Hazendal and then proceeded to give Patrick a bit of a pole-dance to the delight of the wedding party! I left her to do her thing and the result was  some really nice, natural photographs of her.

Patrick decided to take a seat and watch the rest of the show! And was I ever-so-happy that they chose me to be their wedding photographer! Yana’s impromptu dance was a fantastic way to start off the formal photographs and had everyone laughing and cheering (with the odd wolf whislte) in no time!

When it comes to just plain spontaneous photographs, this is one of my absolute favourites. I love it. It’s so fresh, so happy, so unpretentious.