I played a bit in Corel Painter and came up with these paintings of my son when he was about 3 years old and my beautiful wife Daleen. I like to try out new things. I think it looks cool for my first attempt. It reminds me I need to take some new photos of...
Category Archives: Personal Stuff
For those of you who are soccer fans probably saw a lot of South Africa over the last month as we hosted the soccer world cup. Today I went for a spin on our new high speed rail system called the Guatrain and was impressed. It compares well with other rail systems around the world....
I has come to my attention that some people in the South African photography industry do not like me for what I stand. To be honest I do not care. I do not care what people think of me because of my believes and moral values. I feel that the world needs a Hero. Jesus...
I had the privilege to attend the Mighty Men Conference 2010 with my brother Eben. This conference was held in April. More than 300 000 men came together to praise God. Words can not explain what it felt like being there. Every year I wanted to go but had to photograph a wedding over the...
I spent the day with Jim Garner today. Jim is a great photographer and lives in Seattle so seeing I am in town I took the opportunity to work with Jim. We did a shoot in the Seattle library. We took our chances shooting in there, but got kicked out by security in the end....
We just got back from the awards and took home 3 silver and one bronze. 2 Silver were for portfolios. There were no gold awards for the wedding category awarded. 1 Silver for a single image 1 Bronze for a single image Thank you to God for giving me the talents to create these images...
I entered 4 images into the wedding category for this years Pro Photo Awards as this year I was allowed to enter. Two of the images made it into the final and are now up for public voting. Here are the 2 images that made it into the final. Please go to the voting site...
I am very excited to introduce to you our new company Artistic Bliss. J & D Photography saw the need for affordable high quality wedding and event stationery, as a result Artistic Bliss was born. This is from the web site. “Artistic Bliss is committed to give you excellent service and above that an amazing...
Lets stand together and make South Africa a better and safer place for all. For more info go to SHOUTSA
Last week was a bit of a bumpy one. On Wednesday I was admitted to hospital with kidney stones. I had them before so I knew what it was when the pain hit me like a ten ton truck. I do not wish this type of pain on my worst enemy. Luckily it did not...
Wow what a year we had at J & D. 2009 was full of excitement, some of the highlights were being profiled in Rangefinder (we are the second South African studio ever to be profiled) being nominated as being one of the best 350 wedding studios in the world by our international peers. Winning 50%...
J & D have been invited to be part of a new association of photographers. This group is invitation only and we were selected from a highly selective list of over 5000 wedding photographers around the world. The selection and invitation was sent to 350 photographers from around the planet. The panel of photographers on...
I have been so busy the last couple of weeks, I did not get time to post about the images I entered into the International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers competition. As far as I know J & D is the only South African Studio that is part of ISPWP. The 2 images I entered...
I am proud to announce my USA workshop dates and details. You can view the full details in the PDF document. Please don’t wait to long if you would like to join the group. Send me an e-mail if you are interested to attend and I will send you the booking forms and payment method.
International Award Winning Wedding Photographer and Digital Retoucher Crash Taylor did an interview with me. Have a look at this post on the his interview blog. It is a great honour to be interviewed by Crash.