Farewell my friend…

Well the time has finally come to bid farewell to this old wordpress blog of mine.

It has been good, it has been fun, but, the time has come to move on to bigger images.

As I type this, I am a little sad moving on and remain in two minds as to which one I actually prefer.

In spite of this, I am in love with the bigger images and it really is time for a change. 

So here we are –  enter my new IDTR blog just in time for the new year!

I promised no post without an image so here you are a couple of images off the new blog from a vintage engagement shoot!

 

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If you do experience any problems please drop me a note.

 

 

 

Kim & Leigh

I was hoping on posting these before I left, but things do not always work out as we plan. Pretending to be a monster, chasing the kids down the corridor seemed far more important at the time, than getting a quick post in.

So here I sit at Zurich Airport, a day after my deadline, but I’ll be dammed if I miss my weekly post!

I shot Kim and Leigh’s engagement session at Irene Farm last weekend, and here is the proof!

BTW: I will have limited access to my emails and will be back in full swing on Monday.

 

 

 

Engagement Photo’s

“Winter will be quiet”, “Winter will be quiet”, I kept repeating to myself all year, and here we sit in May, officially winter, and I am desperately waiting for that quiet spurt to “hit me”.

Had two engagement sessions last week which I will have to upload together in the same post or else you will never get to see them.

First up Franco and Bonnie who tie the knot in October.

And here are Caroline and Georg’s pics who’s wedding photographs will follow next week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amori & Johan

It took us a while to get the venue for the engagement shoot sorted, but it all worked out in the end, another one in a week before the wedding!

Thank you both for being so game…Johan wanted grunge Amori, it had nothing to do with me!

Your wedding pics next week!

 

‘Lovely Gardens’ Part Two

Midgethood’ comes with all sorts of lessons and many humblings – one of those is NEVER make “famous last statements”.  The sort of things I wouldn’t just mention in conversation and then ask you to please pass the mustard. These are statements I would announce LOUD, so that all and sundry would be sure to hear my stance and opinion on the matter, and then to my horror…’all and sundry’ would never forget.

Statements like:
“I will NEVER use Barney as a babysitter”
“Oh gawd! Dinner at the Spur (enhance by a facial expression of disgust) …No Thank You!”
“Aventura as a holiday resort…you’ve gotta be kidding!! All them screaming brats?  You wouldn’t see me dead in a place like that! Give me an isolated weekend in the bush.”

You would think these humbling lessons would have taught me to keep my trap shut.  I somehow ignored this lesson and went ahead with my “Lovely Gardens” post.

And of course, it came back to bite me in the bum, enter Steve and Sue.  The brief: she wanted an engagement session (minus the wedding) in a garden setting.

 Not only an arty designer, film student and photographer, herself, she was determined on the venue being a “Lovely Garden”………..pure, pure evil… someone must have sent her to play a joke on me, I thought.

Well I did it, a whole photo session with not bit of grunge in sight!

 

 

 

 

Vivien & Trevor

Writing this post I realise that I have not posted an engagement session in a while. I have been shooting these…REALLY, it just seems that there is trend at the moment where couples book the engagement shoot a week before the wedding.

Whilst I have no problem with this, it just means that I do not get a chance to post them, and after the wedding it’s kind of a done deal, there is no point in posting them.

So it was very refreshing to have one of these shoots booked months in advance. It was also nice that Trevor had organised such a fabulous venue, St Johns in Houghton.

Tough one deciding which ones to post;

 

 

 

  

Thank You!

Just received this from Westley…and with wording like that I am not surprised Yolande is so in Love.

“Thank you so much of these awesome pictures of us, they are priceless in every sense of the word. The reason I am so ecstatic about the pics is because you were able to capture the essence of our relationship and the truth of our love for each other. You made a perfect day absolutely awesome by giving us a personal reflection of our feelings and I am now more than ever excited about you taking our wedding pics because I know you will do my bride justice on her special day.

A honest thank you from a sincere heart”

Yolande & Westley’s engagement session

Westley and Yolande are two incredible people that are totally and completely in love with one another! Despite the cold and the rain we still went ahead with their engagement session. They were really the easiest couple to photograph, they just ignored me!

They will be getting married in February, watch this space!

 

 

Marné & Charl – and other bits

I am doing some major blog catching up today and there is no better way to start than to post some pictures from Marne and Charl’s engagement shoot. I must say I am really looking forward to their wedding in October as Marne is a graphic artist and that means details…..which I loove!

 

I received some lovely comments recently and just haven’t had the time to post them…

From Liza-Marie and David

“Thank you to both you and Tanja for being at our wedding.  We had a fantastic time with the two of you.

We had a look at the photos on the blog – I must say, they are amazing!  I think you did a fantastic job.

Looking forward to see the rest of our pictures, to be honest, can’t wait….

Thank you… words can’t describe how happy we are with your work!!”

and this one from Lauren’s parents Rose and John…

“John and I have finally arrived home to the UK.  We are so thrilled with your “sneak peek”.  You have done an excellent job, only problem is, you have now left us wanting more.  The photo’s are fantastic.  Thank you so much.  Andrea also a big thank you for your attention to detail and I am sure you have captured the whole lot.  I would also like to put on record our thanks for making Wesley and Lauren’s day so special.  The guests that we have spoken to since the wedding have all commented on the two lady photographers and how fantastic you were.”  

On that note I would also like to thank Lauren and Wesley, and the other two “album couples” for their patience and understanding …….my worst nightmare my PC crashed last week…an absolute nightmare that has led to an editing backlog.

Luckily I am paranoid about backing up the so no images have been lost, but the edited work …gone.  Data recovery I hear you ask ?….have tried two companies already with no luck and will try a last option this week! When I do something I do it properly!

It just means cold coffee, late nights and a new PC for me!

Robyn & Stephen

Last week I had the pleasure of shooting Robyn and Steven’s engagement shoot. We were stuck for a venue and Steven was not too keen on my idea of “them doing their Tango” at a ballroom location.

I always encourage couples to select a venue or location that means something to the both of them……. so I hope neither Robyn nor Steven took offence at my next suggestion…the Sanatorium!

Steve, who claims he hates the camera, “seemed” like one of those quite, reserved type of guys…but two minutes into the shoot I realised how wrong I was! …maybe the location was not such a bad selection!!

All in all I think we got some cute and fun engagement pics!

Steven thought I was “crazy” when I told him what to do for this shot!