weddings
before i shot my first wedding, i would stay up late at night stalking photographers websites. i scrolled through hundreds of images trying to pinpoint a style that spoke to me while figuring out how to execute it. in a jungle of over-saturated, prop-heavy, stiffly posed, colour shifted wedding photos, i found samantha maber. her […]
my brother ry is not the kind of person you say ‘no’ to. he was saddled with a mouthful of a name by my hippy parents that was impossible to spell if heard, and difficult to pronounce if read. when he showed up at kindergarten he announced he would be called by the shortened […]
by far and away the hardest part of my job is getting couples to overcome their nervousness at being in front of the camera. it’s easy to drift around all day like a fly on the wall, documenting the events as they unfold with little to no say in how things transpire. but come the […]
i love multi-cultural weddings. not only are they a truly unique blend of the best of both cultures, but they represent an amazing new family that will forever be challenging the cultural climate they live in. we all grow up with a set of habits that become ingrained into us as ‘normal’. when we marry […]
this will always be known as the wedding with the crazy weather. spring in kzn comes with a fairly consistent cloud cover and afternoon tropical thunderstorms. it makes photographing weddings at this time a bit of a challenge, and one thing we photographers can write off completely is any sparkling clear sunset light making for […]
every relationship has a rainy spring. not necessarily tumultuous, but unsettled, when things are still falling together just before a couple really hits their stride. it can take an instant or a decade but when it’s over and a couple can finally relax into the peace of knowing that the rest of their life has […]
december. in every other country in the world it’s just another month, but in south africa, it’s a total bliss. we have what’s called ‘shut down’ where everything, yes, shuts down. for about 3 weeks, it’s impossible to try to get anything done, so we don’t. december is all about family time, relaxing, beach holidays […]
since moving to south africa almost 6 years ago i have slowly been knitting myself into the fabric of my adopted community. i am very aware of the balance between foreign and familiar, with each little drop of history i lay down here gently tipping the scales towards the latter. every aquaintance i make is […]
i’m well into my fouth year of shooting weddings and not bored yet. if i was just there to shoot the wedding, i’m sure it would get repetitive (bride, ceremony, kiss, cake….). but i really see my job as documenting the first day of a marriage, and the culmination of a love story. each one […]
there are some moments that just cannot be captured in a photograph. it begs to be re-imagined through the other senses. it’s the an old way song can take you back on a holiday better than your postcards do. it’s why i sleep in luke’s shirt when he’s away. why people collect ticket stubs and […]