Blouberg Beach, Cape Town
Caitlin and Elliott
Blouberg Beach, Cape Town
Caitlin and Elliott
Blouberg Beach, Cape Town
Caitlin and Elliott
Blouberg Beach, Cape Town
Caitlin and Elliott
Blouberg Beach, Cape Town
Caitlin and Elliott
Blouberg Beach, Cape Town
Caitlin and Elliott
Durbanville, Cape Town
Determinedly climbing over sharp, barbed-wire gates (with the farmer’s permission); ducking under fences, running into dried, grassy fields; and getting bitten by bugs – we all left this photo shoot grinning widely with thorns in our socks and scratches on our calves. Well worth it for the magic that we captured.
Myself and Michael have been fortunate to photograph a wide range of people, places and situations but never before had we met a couple quite as determined, adventurous and enthusiastic as Anouk and Dirk in finding the perfect location for their engagement shoot.
The couple glows with love and warmth and a special spark seems to fill them both as we convince them to run around and jump into each other’s arms. We take short water breaks and try to catch our breath but as the sun starts to dip below the horizon, the fields turn the colour of honey and we start working in earnest.
Bohemian feels and warm, amber tones pave the way for these beautiful images.
What a treat this photo shoot was.
Pure, golden hour magic with a couple of love-birds at centre stage.
Michael, Robynn and Cooper
Newlands Forest, Cape Town
Pictured here in Newlands Forest are two of the most wonderful people in all the universe.
Really. You should trust me on this.
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Playful exuberance, gentle kindness and a special kind of weirdness seem to shine out of this couple; and on a warm Saturday in August myself and Michael were privileged enough to attempt documenting this. Extraordinary ordinary love. What an honour.
Plus, you guys, they now have a puppy! People of the Internet, meet Cooper.
Shadows stretch across the leaves and the sun-dappled light slowly deepens as the sun sinks in the sky on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. We instruct the high-school sweethearts to run under the canopy of trees many many times in an attempt at capturing a few action shots and the wet soil squelches under our boots.
Red mud clings to our boots and dry leaves find their way onto my fringe. I pick twigs off Cooper’s fur and he licks me thinking that this is all part of the strange game where the humans outrun and outplay him.
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The puppy photo-bombs any attempts at a carefully curated scene and we all end up laughing as Cooper prances around, finds a stick and howls at the river.
Puppies, much like toddlers, do not follow the instructions of the photographer. And later after viewing some of the candid images of the Golden Retriever running blissfully and beautifully through the forest, I can’t help but think ‘thank goodness for that’.
