by admin on September 3, 2010
in Weddings
While doing a Trash the Dress shoot with Annette last week in a rock filled stream I became aware of a draft! Tracing the cause of the problem was not difficult! I had ripped my jeans in the most strategic of places, what’s more is that I had not noticed it happen!
Oh my word I had trashed the Jeans!!
Of course this is because I’m super flexible (Yogites eat your hearts out) and the incident must have occurred while I was doing the splits across two trees high in the canopy like a finely tuned circue du soleil performer while lining up a shot!
OR
In my giddy enthusiasm my very worn and old pair of jeans were pushed a little too hard as I stepped from one rock to the next… I much prefer the former explanation!
Either way I politely informed Annette (who had either pretended not to notice or somehow really not noticed) that we were both adults and luckily I was not going commando!
There was a bit of a pause and I thought that my sense of humour had gone one step too far… then she laughed and the shoot continued as normal, I did find myself walking with the aforementioned rip facing the other direction whenever possible though 
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by admin on September 2, 2010
in Weddings
When Annette approached me for a trash the dress shoot she told me she wanted a picture that I had not done before woooohoooo I shouted! I’d had this idea to do a shoot in a stream with the bride literally plonked in it. When I told Annette about the idea she was totally open to it, what a pleasure!
I’d scouted a location that was a little precarious wondering if Annette would still be keen when she saw what I had in mind, without skipping a beat she wondered through the stream boots and all with me!
I’m so pleased with what we managed to get from the shoot; aiming to give the images a fashion style as well as trash the dress feel. I could not have done it without Annette’s willingness to participate and I must say three days later my body felt like it had done a crazy gym workout from clambering up and down the rocks for 3 hours!
For makeup we used Algria who is one of the best in the business and great fun to work with!
It also turns out I ended up throwing in a Trash the Jeans shoot without intending to, a little more on that tomorrow
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Last Saturday I did Jackie and Jacob’s engagement shoot at Cape Quarter events in Greenpoint.
Jacob Wiese is the Alternate Director of Primedia and the Non Executive director of Shoprite Holdings as well as director of various other companies. He is also the Marketing Manager of Lourensford and Lanzerac Wine Portfolio.
It’s safe to say the event was a biggie with no expense spared! Cape Quarter Events had gone all out to deck the venue out beautifully and the evening turned out to be a great success!
My photography services were a present from Jacob’s sister Clare to the couple and my brief was one that all photographers love, get more candid photos than anything else!
Well known press photographer Andrew Brown was also there clicking away, he concentrated on the who’s who while I wondered around inconspicuously with my long lens
One of the highlights of my evening was watching the couple dance! There is nothing better than seeing two people dance well together, Jacob and Jackie were amazing and clearly very besotted with each other, congratulations on your engagement Jacob and Jackie!
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