I'm thrilled to have been invited by Wonderful Machine to join them, WM is a a boutique web portal promoting a small number of photographers in all parts of the world, primarily to clients in North America. They were featured in this month's Photo District News.
A friend's daughter found some of Belinda's masks when we had lunch at her place last week. I had my camera with me - click on an image to view them bigger.
Marcel and Liezel came to visit on the farm over the weekend, on Saturday morning we strolled up the hill to get a view. - click on an image to view them bigger.
Kat did the make-up yesterday on the shoot for violinist Caitlin Papier, while Caitlin got ready we looked around the location, a Victorian military base going back to 1893. Kat is also the girl in the Polaroid with the Afro Chick T-shirt in this previous post. Click on images to see them larger.
The good, the bad and the ugly from around here were I live. Some drive-by shootings, maybe the start of an empty dam documentary, but mostly just fooling around with my new Canon G10.
...is what I call my collaboration with Ella and Kat. They came from Cape Town on wednesday with a car full of wardrobe and props, we had a fantastic time shooting the two of them in the landscape around the farm. I'll post the results later, in the meantime; some polaroids.
... before the knife & Tik people gave me something more important to do, was these four landscapes. I wanted to call it "Summer in the Valley" or something in the same vein. It's very difficult to believe that these mountains are snow capped in winter, with the temperatures we get in summer. The forecast for this week range from 32 to 38 degrees (centigrade), except thursday, which will be a bit cooler at 28 degrees - I think I'll make Thursday my garden work day. Click on a picture to view it bigger.
Another stabbing right next door to me, a bit more serious this time. The victim is the same man who was the suspect in the incident I blogged about here two weeks ago. Click on an image to view them slightly bigger.