landwehr maternity shoot {sneak peek}

i got to do another maternity shoot yesterday, which was a lot of fun. a lot of my friends have had babies recently, so you'd think i'd be used to preggy people, but it's still not the easiest thing for me to pose women with gigantic bellies, and understand that simple things like getting up and sitting down are not so easy :)

here are a couple of shots of bronwyn & greg, who are 31 weeks pregnant. the weather was so mercurial throughout the day -- i often found myself looking up to a sky of black rainclouds. but the weather cleared and the light was amazing. 

my fave has to be the photo with the "made in germany" barcode -- germany is where their baby girl was conceived :)

it's really cool to be a part of such exciting times in people's lives. 

x

francinah

last post for tonight :)

yesterday i ventured into zandspruit with marisa from paradigm shift to photograph francinah, one of the organisation's entrepreneurs. francinah makes baby onesies, and they are beautiful. she lives in a small house in the township, that was recently ravaged by a fire. the wall that was damaged has just been rebuilt. i stood in her small kitchen, completely humbled. flip, how can i even complain about any problems i may have in life? we also met her neighbour, isabelle, who made us feel so welcome :)

francinah is a light, and was so gracious to let me photograph her. she admired my "teething beads" so to show my gratitude i gave them to her. she looked pretty stylin' ;)

hope these pics tell more of a story. please, please remember her in your prayers x

regina

the last few weekends have been a mix of shoots...engagement, maternity, francinah in zandspruit {post to follow} and the person this post is dedicated to...regina. 

regina, my mom's colleague, is looking to get into modelling for some extra income so she asked me to take some pics. i was pretty taken aback -- i'm hardly a fashion photographer and have no clue how to pose a model. but we got some cool pics -- she's beautiful inside and out x

lawrence family shoot

i've never done a maternity shoot before, so this was a combination of an experiment / baby shower gift for my friends justin, christy and their son mark. christy is about 33ish weeks pregnant with a boy -- we've been waiting a long time for little evan :)

it helps having such a ridiculously good looking family to photograph {and a glowing mom-to-be}, but i think the fact that we had a lot of fun also comes through in the pics x

part of the solution

a couple weeks ago i was really honoured to take some "behind the scenes" shots of a video shoot for paradigm shift, an amazing microfinance organisation that mobilises and equips churches to run micro-credit, business training and discipleship programmes with the entrepreunerial poor. 


i am amazed and inspired by their work and love that i can be involved with what they're doing in south africa. do yourself a massive favour and check out their website. better yet, get involved in running a programme in your church, community or faith-based organisation.


here are some shots from the day...

nicole & willem sneak peek

if you know me, you'll know i'm not a morning person. at all. but waking up at 5:30am on an almost-winter saturday morning was completely worth it to shoot nicole and willem's wedding. 

the amazing tim gerges (check out his photo blog here) and i had done their engagement shoot a few weeks back and it was a lot of fun (even when it started to rain!), so we were really excited about shooting their wedding as well.

i could not be happier for nicole -- she absolutely glowed on her special day. she also had the most beautiful bouquet i've seen. and willem looked so dashing in his perfect pin-stripe suit. thanks for trusting me so many times -- asking you to take off your shoes and climb in a freezing cold pool and loads of other stuff. but thanks, especially, for being so authentically in love.

here are a few sneak peeks, enjoy x