I took these photos on the way to the D Hani creche last week.  We had to go down a few km’s of dirt road passing recycling centres, scrap yards and an old mine dump to get there and we passed 2 guys burning a tyre on the side of the road so we stopped.

My two colleagues soon got the gist of the types of photos I wanted to take, so they were quite keen to ask these guys if I could take a photo of them.  We thought they were burning the tyre to keep warm at the time, because it was freezing that day.

But, that wasn’t the case, they were burning the tyre to get the steel rim on the inside of it so they could sell it for scrap!  The fact that they were getting warm in the process was a bonus.

It’s such a big pity it started raining after we left the school, or else I would have loved to have walked around the area taking more photos.  I’ll have to make another trip there.

PS.  I got an email from the lady that does fund raising for school today to tell me that Nthabiseng sold the clothes that we donated last week, and raised R600 which is being used to replace the broken windows! How cool !

I’ve had a run of good luck with competitions on Twitter and Facebook.

I received the Sun Sniper strap that I won in an Advent calendar competition – which is still being run actually and you can still win!!

It’s quite an awesome camera strap for being a photog in South Africa actually.  It replaces the normal camera strap, and you screw it into the base of the camera where your tripod connection is.  And it’s got a steel strip built into the strap, and it cannot be cut.

Then, I got a phone call from Kalahari on Friday to tell me that I’d won a 23″ Samsung monitor in a Twitter and Facebook competition where I retweeted about the competition and followed them on FB to enter.  Cool hey?! I’m expecting that to arrive tomorrow, and it was such good timing because I was trying to figure out last week how to afford a second monitor for my photo editing! Now I’m going to have to buy a bigger desk though to fit this big screen How very cool!! Cannot wait to get it!

When I mentioned this to my colleagues today, they said I should buy a lotto ticket

A whole bunch of bloggers and tweeters met up this morning for a brunch/lunch at the River Cafe in Sandton this morning.  It was organised by Wenchy and it was great to see great to see everyone again, and to meet a few new faces.
And of course I had my camera, as did most other people so there are umpteen numbers of photos flying around the interwebs with proof of the happenings of the day

Gina’s Aaron was quite comfortable with the camera, and the opposite photo is on her blog

Meea’s Michael was such a chatterbox and kept Bradley company.  It was great to see him make a new friend today.

Sally‘s Rachel and Sharon‘s Josh kept each other company for 5 minutes on the swings

The moms nattering

I really liked Jessica‘s new t-shirt

And then we had to leave, because Connor started getting “attacked” by bees, and he was petrified and yelling the place down. He had a close call when he squished a bee between his arm and his eye, and thankfully didn’t get stung! But that was enough excitement for me for the day, so I called it quits and headed home with 2 tired boys

I met up with Yolanda, Matt and Cayden this morning on a farm close to Tarlton for her maternity shoot. We chose this venue for her shoot as it’s quite private and Yolanda also wanted to do some boudoir style photos in the veld. This time of the year is just beautiful in veld settings with all the wild flowers, and because the long grasses had been cut, they were even more visible today.

It was such a very very hot morning, and Cayden did not want to play along with our plans for him at all; but it was fun.

It was a scorcher of a day today, and my mom brought Erin over to play this afternoon and we ended up spending the time in the pool.  I’ve take quite a few photos of Erin, but these photos of Bradley needed some airtime.  I love them!

If I’d been standing somewhere else, this shot would have been brilliant! I’ll have to get him to do it again, without the chair being behind him!

And these are my favourite shots of the day, even though they’re not technically perfect, but they just popped when I used this B&W action