In 2001 during my photography studies, I was working on my portfolio and I remember clearly wanting to photograph this man because of his unique features. He was a homeless man that walked by my fathers work every day completely drunk and saying the funniest things ever. He had a trolley (shopping cart) with all his belongings in and he always carried around a bottle of metholated spirits which he either used to sniff or drink. Anyway, in May 2001, I had the chance to photograph with him and chat with him for a bit and he just kept mumbling the funniest things and laughing and even though I felt really awkward, it went well. I was shooting then with my Nikon F90X camera (amazing) and I had no idea if I was shooting rubbish and I only had one roll of film with me that I had hand loaded so I was really hoping for the best. I went right home to process my negatives to make sure they were alright and this frame explained it all. Sadly, my dad called me the next day to say that the guy fell down just across from his shop and that after a few hours an ambulance came and took him away and we never saw him again. I presume that he passed away that day and I am sure that I was the last person to photograph him. I thought I would share.

Enjoy life, it goes by quicker than you think.

Hope you all having a good week. Marcus

As most of you know already, Anja (my wife) and I are moving to the UK for a permanent while next month and we are really excited at the opportunities that already exist for us. Unfortunately we cannot take everything with us so we have to get rid of some of our really special stuff and that is what this post is about. My poor Veronica (quad bike) needs to find a new owner and she has been cleaned up and taken to a store and is currently for sale. She has been the best and most fun bike / quad I have ever had and I am really sad to get rid of her but it would just be a huge waste to leave her in the garage to grow old. I am letting her go for a good price to make the sale quick so if any of you are looking for a quad, please keep her in mind because she needs a good owner.

Click here for her advert on Bike and Quad Mart or go and see her at Bikes Galore at 93 Van Riebeeck Avenue in Edenvale.

I shot a bunch of photographs for my clients at Tsunami Seafood Emporium today and it was good as always. They really are so good at what they do and I really am always excited shooting for them. This isn’t really a good photo but it is what I ate for lunch and it was so good so I thought I would show off.

Hope you having a good weekend. Marcus

I shot this photograph of Darryl Torr a while back and he asked if he could use it for something so I just saw it again. I really like it. Darryl Torr is an amazing producer, sound engineer and musician and really just a really nice guy with more passion for the music industry than anyone else I have ever met. He has been in the music industry for ages and played in some amazing bands and is also the CEO of Openroom Productions which is responsible for many really good albums that have been released in South Africa. He also just won himself a grammy for producing the Soweto Gospel Choir.

Visit Openroom Productions on www.openroom.co.za

I said earlier today that I would try and post the panoramic I shot during sunset so here it is. I photographed it with my 50mm and the total picture is stitched from 42 still photographs.

Please click it to view the image larger because that is the only way to appreciate it.

As anyone who follows my work will know, I have a thing for sunsets and they sky and clouds. I nag my poor wife everyday to look at the sky and I can see her expression everytime. Today though, I felt like I should really make sure she looks and she agreed, it really was one of the best skies I have ever seen before. If only we were in the bush or something. Anyway, I shot these 4 photographs of the sunset as well as a super cool panoramic which I will post when I have stitched it.

Have a super week, Marcus

Wow, I love this photograph. It is one of the 39000+ still photographs that I shot for the Zebra and Giraffe Oxymoron music video. I don’t want to give anything of it away but I love this photo so much. This is of Darren Leader and he is the drummer for the band. He has such a cool style when he plays and is genuinely a super nice humble guy.

Hope you all having a good weekend. M

I have been shooting quite a few photographs with my lomo cameras to play around and really love the way that they come out. I had a bunch processed yesterday and thought that I should post these three of us driving because they are my favourite. Explore lomo photography if you haven’t, it’s really fun and anyone will love the results.

I shot these with a Lomo Supersampler.

Yesterday I worked as the DOP (Director of Photography) for the new Zebra and Giraffe music video for their song Oxymoron. I think the stuff we did really is amazing and think that it will look incredible when it’s finished but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to get it done.

Anyway, I shot some still portraits of each of the band members during scene change and think that they came out really awesome. They are super different and dirty but that is how I wanted them to be.

Hope you well and all having a good week. I am feeling sick with flu so I am going to sleep now.

Chat soon, Marcus

I shot some photographs just a few weeks back for my client Indulge as they have now opened their restaurant in Rivonia and it is really amazing. I had a lot going during the time of this shoot with my wedding and actually haven’t really looked at them until now. I thought it would be cool to post the first 2 photos that I shot of a food setup in an olive garden and then 2 photos that Sarah photographed with me in them. Funny thing.

My friend Alice has had dreadlocks for over 4 years now and she has been dying to cut it so that she can start a fresh. She asked me if I could maybe shoot a photograph of her with her hair before she cuts it so we got together on saturday night and I photographed the process for the hell of it and it was super fun. I think she looks super cool with the new hair. Below are 2 photographs of her just before the cut and then a series of photos during the cut. There are plenty more but I want to go to bed now. Haha.

Have a good week everyone. M

I shot some photographs for the Cassette crew a few weeks back during the recording of their new album, which sounds amazing by the way, and I haven’t really had any time to look through them yet until now and there are some amazing shots. I love these two of frontman Jon busy writing some stuff in deep thought while Nathan was recording some bass lines. I really love being in studio and really love being involved in the music scene so much. Look out for the next Cassette album, it’s going to definitely be a good one.

Alan and I are such dorks and have just downloaded the WordPress application for our iPhones and this is my first post to test it out. It seems a bit glitchy but for now it will be alright.

I shot this photograph of Jeff Mouton quite a while back but I totally forgot about it. I like it because of the way that the tree is lit up so here it is. I really want to go shoot skate photos in the night now.

Have a good weekend all, M

I took these photographs of Dear Reader (formerly Harris Tweed) a few weeks back but I just realized that I hadn’t put any of them up yet.

I really like them a lot especially the second one.

Hope you having a good week, Marcus

My little girl was in hospital late last week and I got to hang out with her in the recovery room and it really was so scary. She is alright now but I really don’t like ever being in hospital for any reason at all. I was stressing out so much but she did help a bit when she started swearing and being super funny while coming out of the theatre still asleep.

I love you my girl. Get better so soon. x

I shot this the other day when the boys from Zebra and Giraffe playing live in Hatfield. The lighting was not so good from a photo point of view and it was starting to rain so I never shot that many but I do like this one because you can see a bit of the crowd.

Listen to these guys, you will love them.

Man o man, I am loving the sunsets lately. They are SO strong and so beautiful. This is from tonight. Love it love it. Apologies for shooting so many sunsets lately, hope I am not boring you.

Another scene on our ride to the dam. I loved this and really wanted to shoot a bunch more photographs of it but I ALWAYS feel so bad shooting photographs of people in their daily routine because I don’t want them to think that I am thinking I am better than them. Not sure if that makes sense.

Anyway, have a super week. Marcus

Rode with the boys to the dam today and it was super fun and muddy. I shot this under a train bridge on our way there. What a fun day.

I was driving with Rudi this afternoon and the sunset was really amazing. I was so upset because I never had my camera with me which is always the case when there is an amazing sunset or something worth taking a photo of. Rudi had his with him in the car so I convinced him to let me shoot a photo with it so that I could update my blog because I really want the updates on here to become a lot more consistant.

I promised that I would say that this picture was taken with a Canon Eos 30D with a Sigma 10-20mm lens. I was really interested to see how the Canon Raw images come out and how it is to work with them and I can honestly say that I like this a lot.

Anyway, that is my boring story for the day. A few of us are going to do some offroading tomorrow and I am hoping to shoot a bunch of photographs which I will post if I do.

Hope you are all well as always, Marcus