Meerendal Wine Estate Wedding – Jacques and Katie

Its all back to work and rock and roll for me and my team.  Its 2012 and we are all sails ready.

I have lots of developments coming up.  Firstly and mainly this is going to be one of my last posts on this site, as my brand new site is almost ready and I will be switching over to it soon.  I really look forward to the new look and feel, and also to have a different web site structure so I can easily seperate my work into different categories and also have more sections of “Stuff!”

This Christmas I spent with Celeste and my daughter Laurel Jane up on the West Coast in Strandfontein.  It was so awesome, but I couldn’t bring my surf board and there was surf there….it was hard to watch waves and not be able to go surfing.  Anyhoo….I got to spend some time with my ladies!

So this is my first post of 2012 and Im really happy to be publishing it, with the photos of the wedding of Jacques and Katie.  Katie is from Zimbabwe originally and Jacques is from Cape Town….but they both live in the UK now.  It was great chatting with Jacques because he serves in the Royal Forces and is an engineer serving currently in Afghanistan.  Thats nuts.  I wonder what it would be like to be in the army and in a war and all that stuff.  That is pretty hectic.  I think I would like to be a war photographer to be honest….maybe if I had taken that path…..The images are just so intense, and obviously so.  Have you seen the Bang Bang Club movie?  I suggest you read  the book….also the movie is cool, except for some of the accents which are pretty horrendous, and it makes it hard to take it seriously.   The story however is intense, and reminded me that being a wedding photographer is all about being unique and seperating yourself from all the newbie togs and wannabe photographers….but in war journalism … well that is the real deal! Whoh!

Oh yes, a wedding!  The wedding was awesome, Meerendal is a great venue and you can just walk around the place and get great shots with great areas, without the need to pack up all the gear and to drive somewhere.  The funniest thing ever was when they were doing the garter toss and they blindfolded Jacques and got him to go off and search for the garter…low and behold he found himself with a groomsman with hairy legs…..eeeww!! Was a howl.  Check the photos at the bottom of the post and you will see.  Ok Im back to editing….January is a month for me of just editing as I shot all December long and now I have to get all that out of the way! Sjoe!