SWEET COUPLE HOME LIFESTYLE SHOOT
Sweet family lifestyle session at home.
Your Home and Life captured
With so much uncertainty out there it feels kind of silly blogging, but being confined to your home is no easy task, and in the end keeping yourself busy, keeps your mind off doomsday thoughts. So here is a little distraction to hopefully make your home quarantine a little easier. This is the ideal time to practice Slow Living so please be safe and stay home, go out for necessity only. Keep yourself busy with things you have been wanting to do around the house, check out this pin board of things to do with your kids, read a book or cuddle with your furries!
About 8 weeks ago I did this shoot and it was so amazing being part of Melissa & Antonie’s adventure for the past 3 years. These two have expanded their family with two beautiful fur babies, Lexi and Lana (Shetland Sheepdogs). They are so sweet and cute it just makes me want to hug them!
Makeup by Missy Makeup Artist
African safari elopement
Patrick & Caitlin are from New York, they're an adventurous couple who decided to elope while they visited South Africa. I had the honour of capturing their elopement at the Lion Sands River Lodge, the ceremony was held in a dry river bank with the beautiful backdrop of elephants gracing on the river bank! They also enjoyed their honeymoon night in a very romantic tree house over the Lion Sands Game Reserve.
'Fall in love with someone who tastes like adventure but looks like the calm, beautiful morning after a terrible storm.' ~ Nikita Gill
Patrick & Caitlin are from New York, they're an adventurous couple who decided to elope while they visited South Africa. I had the honour of capturing their elopement at the Lion Sands River Lodge, the ceremony was held in a dry river bank with the beautiful backdrop of elephants gracing on the river bank! They also enjoyed their honeymoon night in a very romantic tree house over the Lion Sands Game Reserve.
About 2 weeks after the elopement, the last day of their trip, we went to one of my favourite places, Adventures with Elephants where we photographed Patrick and Caitlin with Chova the Elephant.
It is important to note that the second part of the shoot was shot on a different location AWE, the elephants are trained and have professionals on the shoot standing by.
SILVER SWALLOW LOVE
It is wonderful to blog this shoot, it was shot in early February, with my favourite camera, my Contax 645 film camera #nodigital. After my workshop I decided that I had to shoot something for me, something good & simple. This shoot was inspired by things I found around my house and with people who I create with often. Thank you to Jana, Jolindi & Leandri for all your help on this shoot!
It is wonderful to blog this shoot, it was shot in early February, with my favourite camera, my Contax 645 film camera #nodigital. After my workshop I decided that I had to shoot something for me, something good & simple. This shoot was inspired by things I found around my house and with people who I create with often. Thank you to Jana, Jolindi & Leandri for all your help on this shoot!
Preparing for this shoot was so joyous and pleasing for the soul - collaborating with my cousin Beat (hair), Chrystalace, Silver Swallow, Missy Make up Artist and my wonderful assistant & model for the day Leandri, her husband Riaan, Biance and her two adorable Schnauzers, Ollie & Pepper also did some modelling for me, big thank you to all of you.
Dresses by Jana Silver Swallow | Hair Gary Rom Mall of Africa (opening soon) | Stationery Jolindi Chrystalace | Styling by Rensche Mari | Make-up (Leandri) by Missy Make up Artist | Models Leandri, Biance, Ollie & Pepper
CHAN & ASTAMI {ON SAFARI}
You can always find yourself in Africa! Here us Chan & Astami on their safari couple shoot!
"There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne, bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive"
Karen Blixen ~ Out of Africa
"There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne, bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive"
Karen Blixen ~ Out of Africa
~ Film Session ~
Location Private | Dress Silver Swallow
EUGENE & LOUISE | SAFARI ENGAGEMENT
Safari Engagement with an Elephant...yes, TIA!
Where you go, I'll go, where you stay, I'll stay. Ruth 1:16
Where you go, I'll go, where you stay, I'll stay. Ruth 1:16
Creative Collaboration by Stationery Chrystalace & Dress Silver Swallow
CRAIG & NADIA
I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. I vow to love you, and no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other ~ The Vow
I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. I vow to love you, and no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other ~ The Vow
Venue Gourmet Shed (no longer available), contact Annali from Divine Celebrations 0732799542
DUBAI DESERT SAFARI
"Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself."
"Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself."
Venue Al Sahra Desert Resort | Dresses Shop Gossamer | Flowers Dariana Flowers, Dubai | Hair & Makeup Liv Rideg | Model Kate
JASON & NICOLE
"And I'd choose you, in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you." ~ The Chaos of Stars
Makeup & Hair Made up by Jenna
TREVOR & RACINE
Such a beautiful couple. Captured in a park near their home in Johannesburg.
" I crave you in the most innocent form; I crave to say goodnight and give your forehead kisses and to say that I adore you when you feel at your worst. I crave you in ways where I just want to be next to you and nothing more, nothing less."
MINT & LAVENDER
'Be who you were born to be, follow the call of your dreams and see what you were born to see. Your magic is more than it seems' ~ unknown
Styled shoot by an amazing team: Stationery, decor & concept by Chrystalace Stationery | Flowers & Decor by The Splendid Group | Cakes Es by Seline | Venue Private | Video by Hauke Productions
CRAIG & NADIA
Urban City chic with this gorgeous couple! Can’t wait to capture more of their life!
There is only one Happiness in Life. To Love, and to be Loved.
~ George Sand ~
KASPER & TANYA
My beautiful friend Tanya and her fiancé Kasper. We photographed their shoot at Val de Vie. Kasper is a polo player and they wanted to incorporate that into their shoot.
"I want to stand with you on a mountain, I want to bathe with you in the sea, I want to lay like this forever, until the sky falls down on me" ~ Savage Garden
