Pick a day. Any day. Let’s say a Tuesday. And a date. Let’s go for the 12th. This is how that day goes – up at 5.00am, tea or coffee, Hel prepares lunches, I take the dog for a walk (okay I miss the walk here and there). 6.50am Hel does the school drop-offs x [...]
There probably aren’t a whole bunch of us that have a cow called ‘Ore,’ or a Springbok called ‘Lief-Lief’ roaming around in our gardens. But if you travel towards Velddrif, take a right, then a left, then go straight, head over a hill, first left, then right and carry on a bit, you’ll end up [...]
The van Niekerk’s family photo shoot started with an SMS at 6.30am in the morning: ‘Howzit Phil, we’re on, can we meet at 7.15am?’ Phil responded: ‘Ja sure, but there are raindrops falling on my head.’ Of course, I knew this – I was standing outside in a towel (brilliant sight), and it was indeed [...]
Mother’s Day is a wonderful thing. You see, it’s a day when mom’s get all the love and good things they deserve for putting in a ton (and I mean an absolute TON) of work – every single darned day, of every single year. They’re quite under-rated you know. Think about it. They’re up at [...]
‘My chick rocks broer.’ I’ll never forget those words. They came from a guy called Craig Lorden. We were walking/crawling along some very jagged rocks together. But more importantly, his wife was doing the same. It’s just that she was ahead of us. And she wasn’t walking or crawling. She was jumping from rock to [...]
Let me tell you something about father’s. Firstly, they’re legends. Don’t get me wrong, mom’s are pretty cool people, but dad’s well, they’re in a league of their own. They can make fires, and fix stuff, and jump-start cars, and drink beer and shout for the Bokke – and all those really lekker things. They [...]
Ilke was one of the winners in the 2009 Bride of the Year and after the event she got hold of me for a family photo shoot. Well sort of a family photoshoot because it was Ilke, Jannie, the dog, oh, and half pint. Because you see, Ilke was actually a good couple of months [...]
Steve and Diana Block have the best grass I’ve ever seen. Now before some of you go and get all excited, I’m talking about the kind that grows on one’s lawn. The kind you mow. I have no idea what they do to it, but it looks like it’s been through Photoshop. Anyway, so I [...]
I’ll tell you what the best thing about a family photoshoot is – you have absolutely no idea whatsoever what is going to happen when, where, how or why. It’s actually a bit like conducting a science experiment where you chuck in bit of this, a bit of that and then wait for something to [...]
I need to get something off my chest here. Whenever I get a call about a family photoshoot the conversation goes something like this: Caller: ‘Hi Warren, It’s Sandy Pogenpoel Erasmus Klugman Smith-Peddington here.’ Warren: ‘Hi Sandy.’ Caller: ‘Warren, I really LOVE your photos and I want to have a family photoshoot done.’ Warren: ‘Uh-huh.’ [...]
It’s a beautiful thing when you shoot a wedding and then the next thing, the phone rings and the voice on the other said says: ‘Hi Warren, we’ve just had a baby, can you photograph us all together?’ I’m always first gripped with shock and horror when I take these calls. I’m not sure why, [...]
I’ve known Phil Thompson for far longer than I actually care to remember. It’s so many years that when I was working it out I got a bit of a shock. So we’ll leave it there. He’s a bloody fine chap – toughest rugby player I ever saw. You couldn’t put the bugger down. Phil [...]
It’s 7.30am on Sunday morning and I’ve got my whole mob snuggled under duvets in the back seat as we head off to shoot the Haasbroek family somewhere in the hills that surround Durbanville. There’s a distinct smell of egg sandwiches filling the car and Robbie drops a fairly honest comment about what those egg [...]
I’m going to get into serious trouble if I don’t place these photographs onto my website – so here’s the background… Being a photographer has its perks – like hanging around with pretty decent looking couples on the most important day of their lives and getting paid to shoot them. It also has its downsides [...]
Wedding season runs for about 9 months of the year, then things get a little quiet over the winter period. This is when I concentrate on my family portraits which can broadly be described as controlled chaos. Often families want to wait for the summer for their family photos, but it’s not always a great [...]
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