Charles and Maryke booked me from London so the first time I met with them was to do their engagement shoot and to check out their wedding venues a few days before their big day. They are a...
After a very long year of doing the long-distance thing between Cape Town and Adelaide, Nadia and Andrew exchanged vows underneath a big oak tree at Little Stream in Constantia. The balmy summer...
Lisl was the most uncomplicated, relaxed, yet efficient bride I have ever met. She showered, had her nails, hair and make-up done and got dressed in under 30 minutes. Every time I lifted the...
I met Shannon and Jason at Llundudno a few weeks back while they were out from Australia manically sorting out details for their wedding next March in Franschoek. Besides almost being blown off...
Hilbre and Brent's wedding was set in Muldersdrift on a trout farm and I was so excited for the gorgeous bushveld location which made such a nice change from the beaches and vineyards of Cape...
We almost cancelled Claire and Claude's engagement shoot on Sunday as it was raining in the southern suburbs, but it was a completely different day in Camps Bay with not a cloud in the sky and...
When I met Hayley and Pete last year to chat about their wedding taking place in October 2007, it sounded like years away. Now they're up from Joburg to attend to the last minute details for their...
It was a beautiful summer day in Joburg on Saturday for Jan and Warren's wedding - perfect for their ceremony outside under the jacaranda trees at Summerplace in Sandton. The service was probably...
I recently imported some fine art books in from The States and I'm so impressed with the quality of these albums. The pages are laminated with a yummy matt finish which preserves the pages as...
When I was up in Joburg a while back, I did a boudoir shoot with a client who's wedding I'm shooting later in the year. I love boudoir shoots as there is always something completely unique,...
Summer arrived back in Cape Town over the weekend... brilliant timing for Jenny and Jorn's engagement shoot at Hout Bay on Saturday. The sun had already ducked behind the mountain by the time we...
This past weekend I went to go and do a portait shoot with the Walker family who run a divine guest lodge in Swellendam called Schoone Oordt . In addition to luxury accommodation, they also have...
Something a little bit different to weddings... I'm going to be having an art exhibition in Cape Town at the Biscuit Mill, displaying a small selection of my photographs from my trip through...
I recently had the priviledge of going to Pretoria for Denise and Ahmed's wedding celebration. These guys have been living in Dubai and were already married in the Middle East, but had a garden...
Last weekend I headed out to a beautiful country venue called Rockhaven, just outside Grabouw. It was my first experience to photograph a same gender wedding with 2 brides literally bursting with...
I went up to Joburg last week especially for Justine and Justin's wedding - everytime I'm up there it seems to be bucketing down with rain. What a dream wedding to shoot - a radiantly gorgeous...
It was such a pleasure to be at Sid and Shayna's wedding and to witness the way that they're so relaxed, natural and divine with each other and to everyone around them. From being there right at...
It's been a crazy few weeks, travelling up to Joburg a few times, moving home and acquiring two gorgeously crazy lab puppies... so I'm a bit behind on blogging! Apologies to anyone who's waiting...
David Beckstead has been named as one of the top 10 wedding photographers in the world and held a seminar at Monte Casino in Joburg this week - I thought it would be worth taking a few days...
You'd swear it was the middle of winter in Cape Town at the moment, but summer swelteringly arrived on Saturday where a breezy lunch was had at Olivello farm in Stellenbosch for Jenny and Jorn's...
Hayley and Pete's wedding was traditionally beautiful and they exchanged vows beneath the magnificent stained-glass windows, pillars and arches of St George's Catherdral in Cape Town. The day was...
I went out to Grabouw on Saturday to check out Chris's family fruit farm, where him and Simonne will be getting married next year. Man, what an amazing place, after seeing it, I am especially...
Yesterday I shot Justine and Justin's engagement session in Joburg. These guys were such a blast - I had such a great time doing the shoot as they were completely fun and game for anything. They...
A few months ago I thought I would enter some photos in to the Fujifilm Professional 2007 Awards for the first time. I was pretty stoked this morning to see that a few of my images had won awards...
Steve and Karien's wedding was one of the most beautifully simple and relaxed weddings that I've been to. The day started at Constantia Uitsig where a whole group of gorgeous flowergirls and...
Last night was the opening night of my Africa: People and Paraphenalia exhibition in Cape Town and I thought it went down really well - loads more people came than I expected. What I found really...
On Friday, Mark and Lauren got married at Langverwacht - a beautiful venue in Kuilsriver. Saturday's weather forecast warned about the possibility of 'extreme weather' and Thursday had been a...
Last weekend I went up to Johannesburg to shoot David and Nicole's wedding which was held at Villa Arcadia in Parktown - an old mansion designed by Sir Herbert Baker. They had a Jewish ceremony...
Just come back from Natal once again...this time for Kirsty and Devon's wedding at Woodridge Country Estate just next door to Michaelhouse school in the Midlands.
It seems that it's wedding season among all my friends and I've just been a bridesmaid again, this time for my friend Taz. She got married at a beautiful country venue called Providence set amid...
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I'm a wedding photographer based in the most awesome city of Cape Town. I combine a reportage telling-your-story style approach with some directed portraits, capturing emotion, connections between people and anything beautiful. I feel very lucky to be around a whole lot of love.