I’ve worked with the guys from After The Ordeal quite a few times and on our last shoot I decided to test one of my “new” OLD Yashica’s by shooting off a roll of 120.

I love this shot.

My good friend Simon and his beautiful wife, Claudia, got married in August and I flew over to South Africa to document their wedding day for them. I don’t sell myself as a wedding photographer but it felt super special to spend so much time with two great people on what ended up being one of my favourite weddings purely because I felt a part of their day.

I have just finished sorting through their images and so I thought I would make this post to show just 3 of the photos from that day (which I converted to black and white) that I feel shows them as the perfect couple and also to wish them all the happiness in the world.

It snowed quite a bit this week and the first night that it started my friend, Jude, and I went on a late night “fool-around” that started at 1am and saw us skateboarding (without trucks and wheels) down snow covered stairs, throwing snowballs at passing cars, covering each other in snow, attempting to make a snowman, rallying and then shooting photos of the Dodge parked in the snow. I shot the first one in this set at 3:41am with no lights, no tripods and on Iso 800 so although I was pushing the camera it really wasn’t by much. It was SO crazy how light everything was thanks to the pink sky. Never seen anything like it before.

I love the snow.

I shot some studio portraits with the members of a band called Goodnight Gravity and it was a really good time. I normally don’t shoot band members in a studio and I most certainly never normally shoot artists with their instruments unless they are playing them but this time I decided to give it a try because the band really wanted a few. I am busy logging the photographs now and am short of time but I just converted 3 of the photos I took to Black & White so that I could see what they look like and I think they came out really cool. I actually really do prefer the colour photographs but I will keep these as well as all the rest of the shoot until I have sorted through them and the band has them as I don’t like giving away too much.

I just like to introduce the bands that I work with and this post is one of those. The band is made up of 3 members currently and they are trying something quite different to what I am used to but I do like it. Give them a listen if you are at all into Alternative music and I am sure you will appreciate what you hear.

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