I met Tania and her family at Delta Park this afternoon for their long-awaited photoshoot. Long-awaited because Tania first contacted me in May, and her shoot kept getting postponed because of illnesses… so I was very happy when the weather played along with our plans today and we had an awesome photoshoot!

Their son, 2 and half year old Alessio (don’t you just LOVE the name? I LOVE the way it sounds), is so very cute and has the most gorgeous eyes and curly hair. They were such an awesome family to take photos of.

I must remember for the next shoot at Delta Park with little ones, not to start under the trees though, because he was completely distracted by the swings and slides!! But I got what I was looking for

I was thrilled to see that the graffiti had changed… and I found this little hole in the wall… just perfect for little beings

and there are even more on my Facebook page…

Retailer: So Divine! Women’s Clothing
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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!!

This afternoon’s photoshoot at Delta Park in Johannesburg was quite special.  It’s not often that 2 families get together for a photoshoot so that their son, Josh, can have photos of himself with his 4 siblings across both respective families… and with all his parents.  You’ll probably recognise the one family from previous shoots… I’ve done a few photoshoots with Leigh-Ann and Barend from Tranquil Body Treats.

It wasn’t a walk in the park actually, with 1 year old Logan being ill, and 3 year old Matt who had just woken up…  but we got there in the end, and I think we got some really special photos

I love the way that Abigail’s hair was blowing in the wind

Aww, how cute is little Ella

Cool dude, Josh, with his skateboard… it was the perfect prop for the setting!

This was too funny, when Abigail and Logan were checking Ella out

Logan was so very sad today, she wasn’t feeling very well at all, and I just had to capture her face while she was hugging her blanket

Doing cool tricks with his big brother eventually got Matt to smile

Nicole and I had a plan for today… to explore the city.  I wanted to find new photoshoot locations and she wanted me to help her with her camera.  Our limitations at the time of making the plans were that our kids would be with us.  We didn’t think that the weather would turn as cold as it has.  Seriously, we could NOT have picked a colder day for this adventure.

We had planned to go to at least 3 lookout points over Johannesburg city, we made it to one.  We had planned to get to Newtown and possibly the old bank district, we only managed 10 minutes in Newtown.  We had planned to find the Westcliff steps and Hope Road and the forest in Bryanston on the way home… none of that happened at all.  LOL, so it may not have been as successful as we’d hoped, but it was worth it… Nicole got to see parts of Johannesburg she’d never seen before, and I found a new spot for photos, and we had the most awesome coffee and chocolate croissants at 44 Stanley.

It was just far too cold.  When we stopped at Melville Koppies at 10am my car’s thermometer was reading 3.5 deg C.  But I cannot describe how cold the wind was at the top of that hill.  It was just too freezing for words.  Then in Newtown my car told me it was 2 deg!! But it actually didn’t feel as cold as the hill.  But that was the end of the road for Nicole’s little Damian, he’d just cried and cried… we think because his hands were so cold… mine were like ice blocks and were actually hurting me!!  So we aborted our mission, and headed for a heater and some coffee instead

But here are some of the photos that I did manage to get…

I really need to do more things like this.  It’s good for my soul.

Candice and Kallie drove all the way from Carltonville to meet me at Delta Park for their maternity photos.  When I spoke to Candice on Friday evening and she told me that she’d been in hospital for observation this week, I was really not sure she’d make today… but she did… and we took it really easy during her shoot as a result.  I’m still a bit overwhelmed when people will travel so far to see me… it’s such an honour and a HUGE boost to my ego.

My word, check their eyes out… if they’re anything to go by, their daughter is going to have stunning eyes!