To all my lovely readers, I will be away until Monday the 8th of November. Hubby and I are popping down to Cape Town to celebrate our anniversary, and then I have three days in the Midlands at a wedding. I will be doing my best to check my emails while I’m away, but I don’t know what sort of internet access I’ll have, so please be patient.

See you in eight days!

Nicky and I were in the same class in matric, but we probably never would have kept in contact if it weren’t for Facebook (I love Facebook). Nicky and Gibbie were married last year in October, and decided to do a Trash the Dress with me as an anniversary celebration. I think it’s a great idea on so many levels: (a) it gives you the chance to dress up in your wedding best again, have some fun, be in love, and generally get some great portraits of yourselves; and (b) even if you don’t put on the wedding dress and suit again, you can still get some fabulous couple photos to document this stage of your lives. Nicky requested graffiti, and I begged them to use the Nelson Mandela Bridge as well, as I’d been dying to shoot there, so we did both! We went way overtime because I was just having so much fun…my favourite kind of shoot!

Lydia had seen some of the photos I’d taken at the photographer get-together at Sammy Marks earlier this year, and immediately knew that was where she wanted her and Nicol’s couple shoot to be! I, of course, will never say no to ruins, so off we went. On arrival, I discovered something I loved even more than the ruins – the big rainbow umbrella they’d brought with. It was obsession at first sight!

Lydia and Nicol were the cutest couple, and Lydia could laugh at the drop of a hat – and if there’s one thing I love (almost as much as ruins and rainbow umbrellas), it’s a natural laugh. Yes…I loved pretty much every single thing about this shoot!