Posts Tagged 'couple'
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It’s my parent’s 40th wedding anniversary at the beginning of next month, and to start the celebrations, I did a photoshoot for them yesterday. We were originally going to go to Walter Sisulu gardens for the shoot, but after seeing the forest I used in Mari’s shoot a few weeks ago, my mom asked to have their shoot done at the same place… so we went to Delta Park for the afternoon.
I wanted to take photos of them on a bench… and I spotted this one. It just happened to be up an enormous hill… LOL! We were pooped by the time we got there. And when we drove out, we noticed so many other benches that were much closer 
serves me right for not checking properly first
It was really awesome taking photos of them 
Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad
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We had so many ideas for Suren and Pooja’s engagement shoot, and then I spotted this tiny little lane of young jacarandas close to my home. I’m so glad that Pooja also thought the location sounded good, and glad they trusted me to direct them to this random road in a suburb late on a Sunday afternoon to catch the late afternoon light in the blossoms
I can’t wait for their wedding, it’s going to be just beautiful!
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Mari works with me, and over a year ago said that she wanted to book a shoot with her husband as soon as her braces were removed. So a few days after they were removed, she did just that, and today’s photoshoot was the result. I met them at Delta Park this afternoon, and took them to a spot in a forest that I noticed during my last family photoshoot there. LOVE that my clients will walk up steep hills and across marshy land to get to spots that I think will work )
And while you’re here, don’t forget to vote for my blog in the SA Blog Awards
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I haven’t shared one of my thank you’s from my clients in a long long time, and when I got this email from Marcia the other day, I just had to share it. It really really makes my day when I get emails like this… it means that I’ve made a family happy… and that I’ve succeeded in my quest to tell their story…
Because I know Marcia quite well now, and I’m linked to her virtually everywhere, I checked out her Pinterest boards the day before the shoot. I remembered seeing pins in my stream where she’d marked ideas for family photos. That way I had an idea about what she liked and was looking for from the shoot. This is one of the images that I just love… and one that I didn’t put up in the original blog post.
Anyhoo… this is the email I got when she got the couriered box containing the DVD.
Jeanette, I got it!
And I am ECSTATIC – the photos are everything I imagined and then some. I love the ones with the teddies (and they were a last-minute idea!)
Thank you so very much – gosh, I should have done this type of shoot ages ago!I am OVER THE MOON!
And I’ve just checked her blog too, and I see she’s posted something there too It made me smile A LOT!
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My aunt, Kathy, is a breast cancer survivor.
I went to Cape Town this weekend with my mom, to take photos of Kathy and Ian. You may recall that I went to Cape Town a few months ago and took photos for a similar reason. That photoshoot was to document the start of her journey, and she went to have her mastectomy a few days after that shoot. A while after the shoot, Kathy and I had a discussion on Facebook, and I booked tickets to Cape Town again. This time it was to take photos of her with her bald head, and it was to carry on with the story.
Amazingly, the timing was just perfect… not only is it Breast Cancer awareness month (which didn’t come into the planning at all… it was organised around her treatment plans because her last chemo treatment was 3 weeks ago)… but she got the most amazing, amazing news during last week… she’s CLEAR!!
She’s still undergoing radiation, and you’ll see the marks on the scar photos that I’ll post tomorrow, and she’s still got a long, long process with another “designer” drug.. but she’s CLEAR!! How awesome is that!!
The photoshoot started at their home in Somerset West, and I’ll put those photos up tomorrow. We then drove half way up the mountains close to Stellenbosch to the Idiom vineyards on the Da Capo Wine Farm. My mom’s cousin is the farm manager at the vineyard, so the trip out there started with a photoshoot and ended in family reunion and an extreme picnic (in the most freezing wet weather)… and we ended the afternoon on top of the hill eating the most delicious cheeses and strawberries washed down with magnificent wines! What an amazing day!
You can see how miserable the weather was here… and in fact it was raining.
We stopped after that, because it was getting too cold and wet. And then this morning, after a gorgeous breakfast at Tokara, Ian and Kathy took us to Uva Mira, which is a family owned boutique wine farm in the hills around Stellenbosch. As we parked I noticed this gorgeous door, so after a wine tasting upstairs, she whipped off her wig again for a few more photos.
And then the most rad thing happened! A woman got out of a car, and as she passed us to get into the winery, she said to Kathy “I’m a survivor too”.
WOW!!
She then told Kathy that she had had stage 3 breast cancer 3 years earlier, and told her that her hair will grow back, just like hers had. In fact, this woman was so proud of how thick and curly her hair had become, and it was so awesome to see and to hear her story. And that is why Kathy is emotional in the next image…
Isn’t she gorgeous?!!
I’m very very proud of my aunt, and I’m so thankful that I could document her journey like this. There will be more photos posted tomorrow… of her scar… they deserved a post on their own.