Karl and Nele Portraits in Noordhoek

Nele and Karl met me just a few days ago, and not having a wedding booking this weekend, I decided that instead of “Just Living” I would edit!  No worries, editing for me is quite theraputic…I work in my office, I have my dogs sleeping on their dog bed beside me….waiting for their walk, I have my guitar beside me for those long processing periods, Im listiening to my latest album that im loving, I have the surf report on screen two and with the promise that as soon as Im finished editing first the dogs will get their walk on the beach and then im going to spend the rest of the day surfing!  So it sounds awesome….if your me…..and if your me, it is awesome!

This will likely be my last post for the year.  I have about 4 weddings before the end of the year, and I also need to have a holiday…and I hope you will too.  This year, like last year we are spending Christmas up on the West Coast at our family holiday house in Strandfontein.  The West Coast is such a gem….I grew up with summers in Plettenberg Bay, and although I will always cherish Plett, and buy a house there one day I hope….The West Coast is wild, rugged and simple.  I love it there.  We have a secret spot about 20 minutes drive from the village and we go out there and whack old golf balls in to the ocean, and start our sun downers at lunch time and pretty much chillax and braai the rest of the time.  Sweet South African Style.  This year, will also be my daughters first Christmas, and even though she is pretty much unaware its going to be a big affair of getting her tons of gifts that she will have almost no use for!  I guess you have to make Christmas a huge deal for kids, it was the highlight of the year when I was young….as IM sure for you too.  Im all dodgy and disgruntled now in my ripe old age, but ofcourse we must preserve these celebrations for our children.

Oh Yes, And the season finale for the weddings of 2011 will be of this very good looking and super chilled Nele and Karl, in Churchaven and Geelbek, near Laangebaan.   We had to postpone this shoot twice before we finally found a good day to do it….It is the ridiculously windy-windy season in Cape Town at the moment, so luckily we found a day that we were all able to do it.  We landed up shooting near Monkey Valley which is a small resort at the foot of Noordhoek beach.  I shot there a few years ago and made a last minute call to go and shoot their again.  Nele and Karl brough along some Champagne, and I found my self starting the shoot with two glasses….I should really do that more often.  Maybe Ill just bring a bottle of booze along on my future shoots, that should paint a great image of me as a first time experience for my clients working with me……ok maybe not!?

I really look forward to this wedding on the 30th of December, and will write more about them when I release the official photos of their day.

Thanks to Francoise V for working with me on this shoot.  Francoise is another Kommetjie photographer that is going to start working with us.  Sha-wesome!