My first photoshoot for 2012, and what a special one it was!! Karuna and Bei Li have been friends for a number of years, and Bei Li is about to emigrate to New Zealand with her husband… so they decided to have a photoshoot to get proper photos to celebrate their friendship.

I wish Bei Li and her husband safe travels… and all the luck and best wishes for their new adventure

A few weeks ago, one of the mom’s in Bradley’s year asked me to take photos at their Grade 2 year end party.  Thankfully it only entailed taking photos during the drumming session that was organised, so I could take a few hours off work and attend.  It’s not often that I get involved with school things, and it was about time I did something.

What a fun morning for the kids.  The Drum Cafe came to the school with 110 drums… just enough for every child in the year to have a drum to play with.  And OMW what incredible music they made.  They got into the rhythm so very quickly (compared to the work drumming session I did years ago where it took quite a while for everyone to start drumming in time)

Because I don’t have permission from most parents, I’m only showing you a few images of Bradley and the friends that I know won’t have a problem with their images being online. I’m also using this post to try out my new MCPActions presets

If you’re one of the Grade 2 moms and you’re trying to find the rest of the images, they’ll be put into a password protected online gallery for you to download in a few days time.

Retailer: So Divine! Women’s Clothing
Mornings at Professional Touch Day Spa, 2 Merchant Place, Cnr Fredman and Rivonia Rd, Sandton
Or email Mandy for an appointment or for a viewing ursodivine@gmail.com
Labels on sale: Slick, Tashkaya, Status Moda and Mustik

I first realised that Mandy (an ex-colleague) was selling clothes from home when she had a pop-up shop organised one day at work. She then contacted me when she had a pop-up shop in Bryanston with another retailer selling kids clothes… and of course I went again. I just LOVE the clothes she sells. I was delighted when she asked me to organise a fashion shoot showing her summer range from Tashkaya and Slick. I quickly sent a Whatsapp message to my sister, Elaine, and viola… a fashion shoot with her and her friends who had been dying to have a shoot together like we’d done a few years ago.
We all met very early this morning in Newtown to take some fun photos wearing the clothes against the contrast of the old buildings and graffiti.

Isn’t Candice’s blue dress from Tashkaya cool? I have one in purple… and LOVE wearing it with leggings.

Well, that was huge amounts of fun and it was my very first fashion shoot!!

Aasia is turning 30 this week, and in celebration she booked a photoshoot for herself and some friends.  This wasn’t just any ordinary shoot either, she had specific ideas… the theme was “ballerina’s gone bad” and each person had to get dressed in a tutu.  This shoot was such a lot of fun! We not only had 5 ballerinas but we also had a holy man of sorts.

Aasia organised the Circle Bar at Crowne Plaza hotel as the venue for the shoot, which was a challenge of note because of the lack of any ambient light.  All the inside shots were done with OCF using 2 flashes.  And then we managed to find a bare wall outside which we used for the end of the shoot, and we were all quite thankful to get into the fresh air in the end.

Don’t you love the socks that Nafisa wore?

Just loved Denielle’s lips which were covered in hundreds and thousands

Zahira even got her shirt ripped for the occasion

And Kellen’s tights were too cool, and I loved the purple tutu

LOL and check out John’s outfit

Aasia said she could only do funny photos… she couldn’t do hot… hmm think I proved her wrong

Hope they had as much fun as I did.

There are a few more photos in a Facebook album which you’ll be able to comment on when you “like” the page

Yesterday was the best beach day we’ve had since we’ve been here in Ballito.  The sun was awesome and the waves weren’t quite as rough as the day before… the only problem again was the cold wind.  But that didn’t deter us from having fun.  We met up with the boys’ school friends on the beach, and the kids had a ball playing with kites, and bats and balls… and playing tag, and hide and seek.

Connor counting to 20 while the others started hiding

Oh the joys of a long lens, and the kids that weren’t watching me I love taking photos like this… natural play