I do enjoy doing mom and daughter shoots, and this shoot was just so special.  I met Gerda and her daughters, Bianca and Anya, at Delta Park this afternoon in the most perfect light for their photoshoot, and had some fun and laughs walking and running around the park.

I met the Mosley family at the Hermanstad FOTR Steam Train station today for a photoshoot, and it was so cool taking photos of Adele and her family again.  I last saw them when I took their photos almost 2 years ago!

We had a blast, and Caleb seemed to be in his element clambering in and out of the engines.  It’s such an awesome place to go, and what;s so cool, is that every time I go, it’s slightly different.  There are different coaches on the tracks, and even the grassy patches with sleepers are different… so I get to vary the photoshoots a lot which is fabulous because no-one ever gets the same photos.

One of the coaches was opened for us, and it happened to be the manager’s coach… and it was perfectly intact… so we pretended to go on a trip.  The kids were fascinated by the compartments, and the lounge area and the kitchens that we found in the coach.

Adam’s bar mitzvah is in February, and in anticipation of the event, I met the family today to take his portrait photos and the family photos.  After chatting to his mom a few days ago, we decided to use the graffiti wall in Waverley as a backdrop for the photos.

Joining us for his portrait photos, were his brother and sister… and their cousins from Australia.  I hope they all enjoyed it… as they ended up having some photos too

Stay tuned for his ceremony photos and celebration photos that will follow in a few weeks time

It’s Yaron’s barmitzvah next Saturday evening, and in anticipation of the event, I did his portrait photos today.  I met the family at a stunning wall in Waverley that’s covered in graffiti.  Graffiti is just the perfect setting for a teenager’s photos.

And because his sisters joined him for the shoot, I couldn’t resist taking photos of them too.

If you’ve been reading my blog for ages, you may actually recognise the family.  I took photos of them in 2009 at Emmerentia. I haven’t seen the kids since then, and OMW they’ve all changed so much.

Anthea contacted me a few months ago to use her photo voucher that her friend had bought her, and today was the day that we set for their shoot.  I went to their house in The Hill, South of Johannesburg, for their shoot, and I think Anthea thought I was joking when I first mentioned the places in her garden (and on the side of the road) that I wanted to use for the shoot… but it worked

Isn’t this vehicle magnificent?  Their grandfather made it, and I just had to work it into the shoot somehow.