Posts Tagged ‘Cape Town’

While I was going through the rest of the photographs I was remembering my crazy cousin and the nutty person she is.  She is such a delight and really made everyone laugh constantly.  She is not the least bit shy, totally outgoing and ready to get up to antics just for a laugh.  Here is some of the fun we had.

Everyone expects the bride to be all ladylike - B decided to break the ice and just have fun

While I was taking photos of B getting her hair done, the little flower girl was admiring herself in the mirror.  She wasn’t too sure of me and my camera so I had to get these shots sneakily. What a gorgeous little lass she was.

Flower Girl Admiring Her Pretty Dress

The minister decided that is was a good idea for the groom to be on bended knee while his bride gave him the honour of placing the wedding ring on her finger

On Bended Knee

The Ceremony took place in the Tokai Forest – what an incredibly beautiful setting

During the Ceremony

The Guests had a wonderful time in this peaceful setting …

All In Attendance

… but it was the “uninvited guests” that caused a real stir

Baboons decided to join the celebration

It was these rather noisy uninvited guests that put an end to our creative session in the tranquil forest

A Cape Town Wedding

May 17, 2010

At the end of January I went to Cape Town to photograph my cousins wedding.  For personal reasons she was not ready to have the photographs published on the web.  However I have now heard from her and she has given me the ok to publish the photographs.

It was a gorgeous summers day, with a howling gale as Cape Town is known to do.  This really limited the number of outside shots we could get, but I think we still managed to get a few nice shots.

Deep in thought

A Stolen Moment

Beautiful Bride

Totally In Love With Her Groom

In Awe of His Bride

In The Forest

So In Love

Romance

In a World of their Own

You can see a few more photographs here.

So now I have my new pc, a UPS to go with it (which is very necessary when in Badplaas) and I’m actually catching up on all the editing I so desperately wanted to do but couldn’t.

While I was in Cape Town Andre took me around the coast so that he could show me how he takes his most awesome landscape photographs.  I learnt so much, but I am under no illusion that I am up to his level just yet.  Anyway, here are some shots that I took while down there.

Scarborough-Beach

Scarborough Beach

Tog-in-Action

Photographer in Action

Reflection in Wet Sand

Reflection in the wet sand

You can see the rest of them on my flickr stream.

It has been a while since my last blog post.  So much has been happening and I’ve been struggling just to keep up.  I will keep you updated as I go.  But for now let me backtrack.

On the 30th January 2010 I photographed my cousins wedding in Cape Town.  I cannot share any photos of that event with you yet as she requested that I post nothing to the web without prior approval from her.

What I can share with you are photographs of my Tweet up and of @acidicice’s maternity shoot.  There are quite a few photographs that I will share and so I will divide it up into 2 separate posts.

So for now here are some photographs of HRH @queenofcomplex having dinner with “her subjects” in Cape Town.  I must tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed meeting each and every one of you.  You are even more awesome IRL and I’m so honoured that you made the effort to come out and meet me.  From the bottom of my heart I’d like to say THANK YOU for your time, your kindness and caring.  You are an incredibly special bunch of people and I’m extremely pleased I joined Twitter and met all of you.

Enjoying my first #pinkdrink

Oh and I’m really sorry that I have to mention this – but since I tout myself as a photographer I cannot have sub standard work on this blog and take credit for it.  I allowed @andrevr to use my camera (Canon) to take photographs of me with all the great Cape Town folk.  Sadly it appears that his excellent knowledge of Nikon did not prepare him for the complex and superior workings of Canon – hence the blur and “extra ambiance” in some of the shots.  “Jammer Koosie, maar dié taak het jy gepluk”.  But in all fairness, let me point you to his most awesome and incredible work as a landscape photographer. I learnt bucket loads from him regarding landscape photography and am truly honoured to have worked with “the master”.

You can see the rest of the photographs from the tweet up here on my flickr stream.