I am staying with my friends, Jude and Trysie, at their home in Colliers Wood in London and the day before yesterday was one of the nicest sunsets I have ever seen. I shot a few photos but don’t have my raw software with me so it’s not as nice as it can be.

I love flying so much. This is a photo I shot on wednesday night on the Nationwide Airlines flight I had to London.

Did some road tripping, with the revolution and kfd guys, to bloemfontein this weekend. Shot some good skate stuff but the guys wrecked themselves on the first night. We all had a good time and I remember how fun it is being on the road with friends.

Been wanting to shoot more and more of town so tried to get a shot tonight just after sunset. The air was quite mirky for some reason and there weren’t any clouds so I am not really that happy with it and will shoot again soon. Shot some randoms of people just crossing the road and cars driving passed and actually really like them. Either way, how beautiful is Joburg town actually. So much more at night.

For some weird reason, I have never shot photos with Clayton skating. I love the way he does so it really is quite dumb. We skated with the locals now on our trip and I shot some photos of him skating and it was really rad pushing ourselves and just chilling with the locals. We met a few and they were such cool guys. Again, there are a bunch of these but I just randomly selected these ones. I love the colours. Been trying some new stuff and am liking the results. Hoping to shoot more with him soon.

I have again shot way too many photos from the trip but really wanted to put some up so I have randomly selected a few and these are them. Mauritius is beautiful and our trip was amazing. I will try post more when I get a gap but I have a lot to catch up right now.

I have flown a lot of times and still get so excited every single time. Take off, landing, flying and everything else, it’s so mind blowing for me. I shot these two photos out the window on the way to Mauritius last week.

I am in Mauritius at the moment shooting photos to push my self a bit more. Internet here is really expensive so I am just uploading one photo right now. I shot this as we got to Le Cannonier Hotel and was so excited to see that this is where we’d be staying for the next few days. Amazing. That’s it really, plenty more to show later. Hope you well and all have a good weekend. M

Again, I been looking through my photographs that I shot while I was in Mozambique and I really like this shot. It doesn’t really have a story or anything interesting but it just grabbed me when I looked at it again. Think it reminds me of the town of Vilanculos. Not sure.

I shot this photo at the London Dungeon while we were in London in May and only really came across it now. It is of a carcass and I really like the way the smoke is lit up all colourful. Different and cool, I think ….

Again, this is an oldie but I have been looking through photographs on my machine to convince my dad that we need to go down to Transkei and ride. This photo was from when I went riding with friends just over 2 years ago and it was one of my most favourite rides ever. This is of my buddy Ross on our last day. The two of us just went out to shoot photographs and mess around on the loan bikes. That was fun for sure. Anyway, that’s all, hopefully I will be posting new stuff on Transkei soon.

I was sorting through some of my photo’s last night to try and find something as reference for some friends of mine and I came across a bunch of really nice ones from the Nanhau Temple that I shot earlier this year. It really is so beautiful there and I love shooting it. Anyway, these are just 2 that I like. Hope you well. M

We came home pretty late last night from a show and on the drive home Anja noticed the moon was SUPER low and really big. I raced home and got my camera and sat on the roof for a bit in the cold and took some shots of it. This ones probably my favourite.

Anja has been making a cool scrap book of our trip to London and I saw this photo yesterday that we shot together in Leicester Square aiming towards our home. It’s actually to Pretoria and we stay in Johannesburg but it is close enough when you think about the distance we are away. Good times.

It was my buddy, Darryl’s birthday the other night so a few of us went round and had a dessert bash. I took this photo of him saying good bye just as we were leaving. He was beat up about 3 weeks ago by a robber who broke into their house and the guy smashed Darryl’s face a few times with a brick. I am so happy that it has healed well and that he is alright.

Then this photo, I shot on the way home from their house. Alan drove me there and on the way back the lights of the freeway were looking pretty crazy so I shot one freehand shot quick and then was over it. It came out pretty good though. That’s all for now.

Ok, so I tried something new the other day when we were on the bus through London. It was raining but really a good day so I had to make sure to get some stuff for our memory book. Black and white is amazing …..

We went to visit my friend, Jude, at Fulham Football Club last week and it is right on the river Thames. Anyway, he took us on the raddest personal tour of the club and it was such a good day together. I don’t know much about soccer but they are my new favourite team. Haha. This is a photo of Anja walking along the river. I really think she looks so pretty in this.

Not much else to say except for “London Baby”. Decided to take my camera out yesterday for a bit so these are some of the photos. Will be shooting a lot more as the days go on but it is hard to try shoot pro stuff when we are running around like PROPER tourists. Haha. Have a super day ……….. London Baby !!!

Ok ok, this is another one shot a really long time ago. I was in Mozambique in 2005 and shot a lot of work down there for a client of mine. It was the first time for me in this country and I didn’t know too much about it before I left. Anyway, the reason I am posting this is because my dad and I have been speaking about taking a trip up there to ride the coast so I started looking through all these to get excited. This shot was taken overlooking the harbour / bay area of Vilanculos which is the nearest inland town across from the Bazaruto Islands.

I shot this photo about 6 months ago the day that I sold my bakkie (Rachel) and kind of forgot about it but really like it for some reason. Now I have a new car and realize that I haven’t really shot a good photo of / in / with her so that is my new thing to do. Just need to think of some good idea but for now this will have to do.

Anyway, so I spent hours yesterday looking at another photographers portfolio and really liked his stuff a lot. He did the most amazing night photography I have seen in ages. I love the night stuff and for some reason haven’t tried it out much yet. My late new years resolution is to pull my finger and start shooting stuff like that. Not sure why I am writing all this. The reason for this blog is also because the guy has an amazing way of processing his photo’s and I wanted to give it a bash so thought I would work on and post one of my pictures from Green Island in Taiwan that I shot last year. The first image is totally untouched exactly as it would come off my camera and the second is a processed the way I think it should be. It’s crazy how much processing can do. That’s it, hope you having a good one.

I realize that I haven’t ever put photo’s of my little girl up yet so I had a look back through my thousands of happy snaps with her and found this one that I know we both really like. I shot it last year on the beach at Langebaan lagoon during sunset. Isn’t she the cutest…….

Still busy sorting out my folders and backing up all my stuff and came across this photo of me flying back from Cape Town at the beginning of last year. It just reminds me how much I love flying. It really is the most best thing and I cannot wait to be in the air again soon.

On my last night with the Tweeds in Cape Town, I shot this photo of them all together being funny on a couch outside the Independent Armchair Theatre. It was an amazing show and out of the 60 shots I took of this scene, I think this one works the best. They are an awesome bunch of people.

I am trying to sort through some photographs from the last month and two weeks ago today I drove down to Cape Town with my friends from Harris Tweed. We stayed at friends of Darryl’s parents in the middle of the NO where in the Karoo and this photo we shot as we arrived there on monday evening. Darryl guided us on a hike to see some awesome bushman painting’s that we never ever saw. Either way, it really was such an amazing setting. We like …….

I was in Cape Town again for the whole of last week and had an amazing time. My flight out was at 630am in the morning on sunday and I had to work until 430am the night before so basically packed my bags and got a lift straight to the airport. It was probably the most tired I have ever felt but the sunrise was amazing and made it all worth it. I hope you like this.

Ok, so I never really shoot “happy snaps” but this passed weekend when I was down in Cape Town, I couldn’t resist. I stayed with my friends, Waynand and Maz, and had the best time. They took me to do the tourist thing and we explored a lot of the Cape. It really was amazing, so beautiful and just the best fun. I miss it and my friends a lot already and it’s not even been a week. Anyway, so this is my set of tourist shots from our trip.

I went down to the West Coast for my birthday in 2005 and on my way to the airport, at something mad like 6am, I passed Blouberg Strand and saw this scene. It was awesome and really one of the nicest things I have ever seen. Only problem is that I never had my big lenses with me. I decided I had to shoot it wide so posed myself as the subject and used the camera’s timer to set it off. I love this shot. An amazing memory of a special place that I am growing to like more and more every time I go there. I hope this gives you the feeling that I get when I see it.

Cheri and Darryl played a chilled set inside the Mega Musica Store at the V & A waterfront and because they never needed to set up, we shot some mess around photographs just outside the store. Show was a rocker. Coffee, buddies, good music, Alan’s ass, ice tea, Police Academy DVD’s for R49.95, comfy tables and cool gear. Awesome…..

While I was in Cape Town I stayed with my friend Wayne and his wife Mandy. It was super cool and they let me have a whole room to myself. They have a cat and he really is the first cat I have ever actually liked. I fell asleep the first night working on my laptop and woke up super confused after the cat attacked my hand and started savaging me. I did crack up laughing a lot when I actually clicked what was going on. Shot these photos one mornind while trying to burn a disc for my Rental car.