I’ve noticed that there have been quite a lot of people on my Facebook fan page who have recently bought decent DSLR cameras and who are looking for spots to test their skills. But where in the Cape are the best places to shoot? Well there are a lot of places actually, but perhaps one of [...]
I’m asked many, many, many times how I get some of the shots that I do. Well, let’s see now. Firstly, there’s always an element of luck – and I mean always. You see, I don’t pose my boys and girls much. I wing it – shooting from the hip, letting things unfold as naturally [...]
When we were young kids, my mom bought my brother and myself the story of Black Beauty on LP record. We used to listen to it over and over and over again. In fact, I can still narrate large parts of that story from memory. But even though I enjoyed listening to the record, I [...]
I continually say to Helen that the biggest challenge facing me is challenge itself. Deep hey? But it’s actually true. Trying to continually reinvent oneself can be quite a tough, if not enjoyable exercise. So I love it when I get a bit of a curve ball thrown at me. When this happens I generally [...]
Sometimes a plan doesn’t come together. In the case of Roxanne and Marks engagement shoot, the plan fell apart completely. What we initially wanted to do was to shoot their engagement photos on my cousins boat in the waters just off Paternoster. But when D-Day arrived, the wind had decided to chop the waters up [...]
A lot of families and a lot of wedding couples ask me to shoot them on the beach – and the Blouberg beaches are a particular favourite. Which is hardly surprising I suppose since the view of Table Mountain in the distance is of course one of the most awesomely beautiful in the world. But [...]
So this is how it all began. A few yonks back I met Herman and Marilet and shot their engagement. Time ticked on and the next thing I shot their wedding. Now to say that their wedding was somewhat of a party is a complete understatement. But I’ll leave out the sordid details (like the [...]
The thing about engagement shoots is that you generally need to take your lead from the couple. If they want the beach, then off you go. The forrest, ditto, the mountain, you go. Garth and Lee wanted the city centre of Cape Town. Now I’m quite a brave chap and I (used to be able [...]
So I’m sitting and waiting for the phone to ring (as one does as a wedding photographer in Cape Town during the winter), when all of a sudden Dylan calls. ‘Howzit Warren, Dylan here. We’re on our way down from Secunda, can we do our engagement shoot? We’d like to include a waterfall if possible.’ [...]
So as the 2011 wedding season slowly starts to recede and everybody runs off to have babies and start families and all that sort of thing, it’s time to start looking ahead to the 2012 season and all the good stuff that it’s sure to bring. So let’s kick off with something a little different [...]
The one thing a lot of bride’s know about Izandi van Wyk is that she’s really passionate about weddings. That’s because she’s a very popular wedding planner that really does know a thing or two about putting a really good wedding day together. So I was really chuffed when she asked me to shoot her [...]
Taking photographs in a 50 knot South Easter is quite an interesting exercise. Firstly, trying to hold the camera still for long enough to simply take one photo is a bit of a challenge. Secondly, hair tends not really to stay in any one place for longer than a nanosecond. And thirdly, it’s quite tricky [...]
Way back in the day (and I’m talking 1 June 1795 here), a squadron of British warships anchored in Simon’s Bay (today known as False Bay) and the commander of the Dutch East India Company’s forces at the Cape, Col R.J. Gordon, ordered that a new battery, named “Kyk in de pot” Battery, should be [...]
What on earth must Jan van Riebeeck have thought back on 6 April 1652 as he first caught site of that great, grand old lady called Table Mountain. Let’s not beat around the bush here – Jan V was quite a hard bugger. Keel-hauling the odd sailor across Table Bay was quite the norm for [...]
If you’ve never heard of Gympie Street in Woodstock, Google it and I’m sure a certain picture will begin to emerge. It has a very interesting history behind it. Mainly of guns, gangs, murders – you know, just normal everyday blood and guts sort of stuff. I reckon some of the fellows who hang out [...]
A few months back I had the absolute pleasure of shooting the Phenomenal Bridal Beauty and Styling Workshop. I love being involved in these sorts of things simply because you get to meet and work with people who have a real passion for weddings. Two such gorgeous ladies are Sybil and Rozanne of Moi Styling. [...]
It’s Saturday morning, 6.00am, the alarm clock goes off and I get out of bed feeling pretty shaky. The day before had been a long haul shooting Rowan and Tarryn’s wedding. I’d eventually got into bed just after 1.00am after downloading their photos and here we were, a few short hours later ready to take [...]
I’ve noticed on a few occasions that people like to give the West Coast a bit of stick. ‘It’s boring,’ or ‘there’s nothing there,’ or ‘it’s dry with lots of rocks,’ are a few of the comments I’ve heard. And the number one chirp of course is simply: it blows there.’ Oh okay, if you [...]
It’s always a bit of a let down when you wake up at ‘sparrow’s’ only to find that it’s pouring with rain and your planned engagement shoot up at Kirstenbosch Gardens is about to go completely pear-shaped. So we decided to delay things by half an hour and head out to Rhodes Memorial instead. It [...]
I’d love to know why it is that everytime I have an engagement to shoot on the beach, the Cape South-Easter decides to serve up something special (and then bring with it the kind of cold that is more associated with the South Pole). I need to keep my couples motivated, interested and inspired – [...]
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