ALMA

I met Alma quite coincidentally. She was waitressing at a farm restaurant that I visited during the December holidays. From the minute I saw her I knew I wanted to photograph her. To my surprise, Alma has never modeled before. She's a total natural in front of the camera. We spent an afternoon exploring a farm and shooting some pics. These are some of the resulting images. I'm looking forward to working with her on a styled shoot in the very near future. Watch this space for more of this beautiful girl! 

A huge thank you to Nacht Wacht for letting us shoot in this beautiful setting.

[Featured Work] Billabong Girls Winter 2013

This year I've been fortunate enough to do quite a bit of work with the beautiful Billabong Girls, Tarryn Chudleigh and Tanika Hoffman. I absolutely love doing work for the Billabong brand and working with these talented girls, in and out of the surf. Here are just some of the published shots from the Winter 2013 clothing range. Will share some more soon on my Facebook page. 

P.S. Join the Billabong Girls South Africa Facebook Page to keep up-to-date with the latest pics and news from all their gorgeous team riders.

Lifestyle Shoot | Tarryn Chudleigh (Part 2)

So I finally got around to posting some more photos from the recent test shoot I did with South African surfer girl, Tarryn Chudleigh. The following are the surfer girl themed pics. I'll be doing one more post to follow with the more fashion-based photos. I love shooting Tarryn because her style is so diverse and she just translates beautifully on camera in any setting and in any outfit. Tarryn is a former Springbok surfing champ and is sponsored by Billabong, VonZipper, Nixon and Monster. Visit her personal blog or her facebook page.

Tarryn Chudleigh (Part 1)

Cape Town surfergirl and Billabong sponsored rider, Tarryn Chudleigh and I recently met up to do a lifestyle photoshoot. I'll be doing a series of blog posts featuring the images we got. We had tons of fun doing the shoot. Working with Tarryn is so effortless - she has such a great sense of style (one that most girls would envy!) and she's very comfortable in front of the camera. Tarryn is a Sector 9 ambassador so we decided to do one scene with her and her Sector 9 board. These are some of the shots. Follow Tarryn's adventures on her blog and on Facebook.

Unhappy Birthday

And now for something COMPLETELY different. Even though I love to shoot - and mostly do shoot - surfing, my favourite thing to photograph is people. I was playing around with a bunch of concepts around the theme of environmental portraits. Well, actually, I wanted to turn the theme of an environmental portrait on its head and do environmental contradictions. These images are far from perfect so I prefer to look at these as a test shoot. I'll hopefully get to redo them in a proper studio set-up sometime soon. The models were all friends of mine and I must really give them credit for their fun and comfortable attitude towards the shoot. All the below are shot with a Canon 1000D and kit lens (taken back in 2009 in my garage).

Sunkissed

I treated myself to a new camera (finally!) and to test it out I teamed up with my beautiful friend, Natasa, to shoot some vintage-style portraits on the beach. It was so difficult to choose my favourite shots but here they are. I hope you enjoy!