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Studio La Bella is a Boutique Photography and Design Studio located in Perth, Western Australia. I specialize in Lifestyle and Wedding Photography and dabble in a bit of Graphic Designing. I have a passion for photography and love using natural light so most of my shoots are done in the great out doors. I am so excited to share my latest work, thoughts and inspirational titbits with you on my blog! Please feel free to leave me a comment and pop over to Facebook and 'Like' the Studio La Bella page. www.facebook.com/StudioLaBella

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Mary, Nico and Baby Bump Emily

So Im sure many of you have been waiting for this post.... I feel like I need to explain what happened.
You see the original date for this shoot was 5 May 2011, but unfortunately Mary was still working at that stage so our shoot could only start at 5 which gave us only 30min of good light. This meant that allot of the photo's I took that day was indoors and with a flash. And for those of you that know me, I hate using artificial light. I did get a few good shots but I was not happy with the overall outcome so I scheduled a second shoot on the 18th of May (it was a public holiday in South Africa so Nico and Mary was both home that day). This time I drove out to their beautiful Home on a game farm about 20km outside Nelspruit. I must just add this, how fortunate are we living in South Africa to have wild animals like Zebras and Giraffes walking around in our garden? I added one or two pics of the animals mouing the lawn and trimming the trees for them.

It was an absolute ball photographing thees two. Whenever Nico wasn't in the photo, he was behind me instructing me what to do.... which I love, cause seriously I run out of ideas. So to all my future clients please feel free to instruct away. These two are so in-love its beautiful to see and off course they were supper excited about their first born Emily to come. (Emily arrived on the 1 June 2011) O and how beutiful is this mommy-to-be? She was a dream to photograph I could not find one bad photo. 

Ok so let me stop my chit-chat and introduce you to Mommy Mary and Daddy Nico Pieterse and the bump that was Emily.


 

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Goosen Family

Antoinette and Jacques Goosen is not used to being on the other side of the camera lens. They are the owners of SANHU (South African Natural History Unit) and used to all the drama of a photo shoot and dealing with difficult models.... well their models are animals most of the time, so I guess they have the right to be difficult. Lucky for me the family were perfectly gracious models... Antoinette wanted some family photo's taken basically because the family are so rarely together. You see Nicolas is currently studying in England, Lyndill and her husband Pieter lives in Cape Town, which only leaves Antoinette, Jacques and Zander in the Lowveld.

So the day started out beautiful, the sun was shining, the sky was blue, perfect for a afternoon shoot, and I was so excited to catch a beautiful Lowveld sunset as the Goosen home is located on top of a mountain just outside Nelspruit. But as Murphy would have it, as soon as we started the shoot, the wind came up, the skies turned black, and about 45min later it was pouring down with rain.

But despite the bad weather, I managed to capture some beautiful pics....


Sunday, June 19, 2011

Tania Myburgh High Tea Party

Tania hosted a High Tea Party for all her girl friends to celebrate her 25th Birthday. The Tea Party was held at the gorgeous Isabella's Cake and Food Shop in Waterkloof in Pretoria.

It ended up being a real girly-girl morning with pink cupcakes with little handbags and shoes made from icing and delicious scones with cream, and off course lots of tea in pretty floral tea pots.

Just look at how much fun they had...

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Heska and Ryno Couple Shoot

Heska and Ryno are not your conventional couple... by this I mean that Heska is a bit of a tomboy, always have been... I remember when we were little I always wanted her to play Barbie with me but she always wanted to play army with the boys. She hasn't changed much but she was very fortunate to meet Ryno that is a real boerseun, and to Ryno Heska is the perfect woman, a blond bomshell that can hunt, hates shopping,  and drives a bakkie, what more does a guy want? As I have known Heska her entire life, I think I am qualified to say that these two were made for each other. 

The photo's were taken at the beautiful Buffelshoop Farm between Mooinooi and Hartebeespoort Dam. Ryno was a bit reluctant (which seems to be a norm with the men) but like only the apple of his eye can, Heska convinced (and bribed) him to play along.

The results?

Well see for yourself....