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....

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...

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....

Chantelle and Eon E-session

Chantelle and Eon have been together for 4 years. They got engaged in December 2010 and will get married on the 6th of August 2011. I must say, I was so impressed with Eon the 2 hour shoot ended up being a 4hour shoot and he did not complain once.... APPLAUSE for Eon. Anyhow the day started out very dull but luckily there is nothing dull about this gorgeous venue (The Union Buildings in Pretoria) so even when it threatened to start raining we still got great pics. After the Union Buildings we moved to University of Pretoria (TUKS) Hatfield Campus..... WOW, you spend 4years of your life inside these beautiful buildings and yet never really look at them. Anyhow, without any further a du I present the future Mr and Mrs Van Zyl.

Enjoy! (I did)

Breytenbach Family

Nicolaas and Tanja

My cousin turned 18 in April and we all went down to my uncles farm for the weekend. Him and Tanja met each other at a show and they have been together for about 6 months. She is such a gorgeous girl and I really love the farm, so I asked them if we can do a couple shoot. They were very reluctant but I am difficult to say no to... LOL. Anyhow, it turned out to be such a grungy day but like I said, location is stunning. Here is the results.......

Enjoy!

A taste of whats to come

Hi everyone

I know I have been super quite but I have had a lot on my plate the last few weeks. I moved back to South Africa from Singapore, and been working really hard.... anyhow, just wanted to show you guys a little teaser....

This was my very first maternity shoot.....