Recycle fasion shoot

YEAH! for photo club. Having set subjects to hand in surely stimulates the creative juices! Unfortunately photography is a very subjective when it comes to taste, so though they LOVED the photo it did not completely comply with the theme of the month :-(

But I surely had a blast doing the shoot with my friend. Thanks again for helping out maaitjie!!!

Hope you enjoy the photos.

Kruger Park June 2012... and only posted now!

I have not blogged in a month of Sunday's.... I know, very bad of me, but hey! I'm writing something now, so give me a break!!!

I’ve joined a photography club  somewhere during 2011 and since learned a lot about wild life photography (still not my forte but working on it and improving on it every time!! OK, now I’m just sounding vain, but hey, at least I’m enjoying every moment of it!!)

So when my husband asked me what I wanted to do for the big 30 I told him lets go the Kruger National Park with the parents, BUT I want to leave so we can have Champagne (OK, JC Le Roux sparkling wine) breakfast in the park on my birthday. We left 14 June at 05:00...or that was the plan at least! As usual, we left about an half hour late, and since we’re driving the scenic route via Long Tom Pass we only got to our campsite in Letabah with about 15 minutes to spare before the gate closed.We literally have driven the WHOLE day to get to the Kruger Park!

Excited about the 10days in the park and what we will see we’ve set up camp. 4 tents for 3 couples… the one supposedly the “office tent” became the “storage tent” after we had a monkey raid through the camp (while my mom was sleeping about 5 feet away from our “kitchen”).

We saw the most amazing things, from baby hyenas, still black without any spot, to dwarf mongooses. Were spoiled with 6 leopard sightings in 10 days but yet again NO lions!! (And no seeing the butt of a lion or the moms mouth on a night drive DOES NOT COUNT as seeing a lion… ). But jealous about the people who have seen them? OK, I have to confess yes, I am a bit jealous, but hey, to get leopard 3 out of 4 times since my husband and I started visiting the park together…

I’m sure I have a lot of people turning green with envy!

Hope you enjoy my humble attempt at wild life photography!

NOT FUNNY!! This big guy decided he's in the mood of chasing a Toyota Landcruzer... luckily my dad was driving so I was able to get this photo! Later that aftenoon a 3 year old bull decided it's time to chase a Nissan Hardbody...  luckily the husband was driving... and NO! I didn't take photos this time round.  That evening we almost got stormed by another elephant while on our night drive.... LOL! This was the day of the elephants!

Elephants crossing the Lethaba river.

Playing with fire..... Ahhhhhhhhhhh, what I would give to sit around a camp fire again....

We saw this leopard 3 times. The morning when he walked over the road right in front of us, the afternoon we got him and his kill in this tree.  Why the leopard chose this tree to drag his kill into is still a mystery.... I still can't believe that the tree had hold the weight of the buck and the leopard! When we went back the next morning he was balancing on the opposite branch from where he is now.

I nearly died while photographing this leopard.... still get shivers down my spine if I think about THAT look.  We though he might jump in through the window when he got up, but he ran over the road just behind our car. We got him at the far end of the Lethaba bride about 20m of the road.... if it was that far!

Alron & Loarain Wedding Pre-Shoot

Cuz, glad you phoned me. Looking forward to do the photos on your wedding!! Hope you enjoyed the pre-shoot just as much as I did! ... FYI, feet photographs has never been so much fun! "Shap-shap" :-)

I've met Alida in 1998 and 14 years later we're still friends! What a great privilege it was to do a family shoot for them. At first Miëtte was a bit shy (and I think intimidated by the studio-lights!) and she burst into tears... for about 5 seconds :-)  ... pulling funny faces and making fish-mouths worked wonders!

She tried it herself, and the results, with Miëtte dressed in her pink tutu, well... let the photos speak for them self!

Botes Family

I've met the Botes family (at the end of 2011) a few days before they relocated to the Cape... What a shame, I would have loved to work with them again! The way they interacted with one another, laughing together, and just the amount of love that was radiating from them.... Guys, it was an honor to do the shoot for you! All of the best for the future, and God bless.

Die mal Oosthuizens

Mag hulle dit eendag in hulle harte kry om my te vergewe... Dit het alles begin die dag toe ek my GROOT nommer 9 PINK (OK, dit was die skoen wat pink was... is) VOET neergesit het, 'n ma wat histeries raak van die lag oor die voet wat nogals hard met die aarde kennis gemaak het, amper soos 'n kleuter wat 'n vloermoer gooi in die middel van 'n winkel sentrum.

My sussie was amper weer oppad terug na Madagaskar en ons het net besluit dit is tyd vir 'n foto shoot met die ma... ja wel, mag die foto's getuig van koppe wat raas en van 'n middag vol lekker lag. Hoop julle geniet dit!