Archive | December, 2011
* the wedding of bev & robert, netherwood, natal midlands { part one }
another beautiful durban wedding, held at the exquisite nottingham road farm, Netherwood … happy christmas everyone ! ps > how cute are those wedding shoes ?
* the most powerful images of 2011
this one is my favourite by far. ”all is fair in love and war” ?
Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was knocked to the ground by a police officer's riot shield in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins. (Getty Images / Rich Lam)
imagine the day, when your only photograph from a wedding shoot is this one. it would definitely be a notch up in hysteria ( of a different sort ), from a wedding i remember shooting a few years back, where the priest actually used the words “fellatio” and “erotica” in the wedding ceremony. { his personal views on pre-marital sex, which he stressed cannot be intimate ( apparently ) but only be deemed as fellation and erotic ! }
A distressed bride attempts suicide in China after her fiance abruptly called off their marriage. Still in her wedding gown, she tried to kill herself by jumping out of a window of a seventh floor building. Right as she jumped, a man managed to catch and save her. (Reuters / CHINA DAILY)
here are a select few of my other favourites. to view the entire 45 most powerful pics of 2011, click here./
A monstrous dust storm (Haboob) roared through Phoenix, Arizona in July.
Office workers look for a way out of a high rise building in central Christchurch, New Zeland on February 22. A strong earthquake killed at least 180 people. (Reuters / Simon Baker)
A protester gets sprayed in the face with pepper spray at an Occupy Portland protest. (Randy L. Rasmussen/The Oregonian)
A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14. (Reuters / Yuriko Nakao)
A man sits in front of a destroyed apartment building following the Joplin, Missouri tornado. (Reuters)
Firefighters of Ladder Company 4 — which lost seven men on 9/11 — perched together on their aerial ladder, watching a news bulletin in Times Square declaring that Osama bin Laden was dead on May 2. Source: lens.blogs.nytimes.com
Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia and forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate. (Reuters)
A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan after the massive earthquake and tsunami. (Reuters / ASAHI SHIMBUN)
Police spray Ugandan opposition party leaders with colored water during demonstrations in the capital Kampala on May 10. (Reuters / James Akena)
A student is punched in the face by a police officer in Chile. Students in Chile are demanding a new framework for education. (Reuters / VICTOR RUIZ CABALLERO)
An aid worker using an iPad captures an image of a dead cow's decomposing carcass in Wajir near the Kenya-Somalia border on July 23. (Reuters / STRINGER)
A Libyan rebel is pictured with Gadhafi's golden gun. (Getty Images / Philippe Desmazes)
A phone hangs off the hook on Wall Street. (Reuters / LUCAS JACKSON)
A woman hangs onto a street sign in chest deep water along the flooded streets in Rangsit on the outskirts of Bangkok on October 24. (Getty Images / Paula Bronstein)
Two lights from the former site of the World Trade Centers shine for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. (Reuters / GARY HERSHORN)
Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York, embrace after becoming the first same-sex couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerk's office. (Getty Images / STAN HONDA)
* so you wanna be a wedding photographer ?
if you want to be a wedding photographer or you’re thinking about becoming a wedding photographer, then you have to read this fabulous, honest and beautifully written post by Durban wedding photographer Jacki Bruniquel ( don’t you just love that surname ? . . . sounds like she might be a formula 1 racing car driver > they all have those fabulous sounding names . . Barrichello, Montoya, Fisichella > enough said * ) / /
salut to all the wedding photographers out there > click here to read Jacki’s post
* the best 10 photos …. shew !
after much deliberation, wailing, gnashing of teeth and pleads from friends to help, here are my 10 “best of” pics from december 2010 to now. not an easy task ! these images were submitted into junebug.com’s international competition “the best of the best” where they choose the best wedding photographers from around the globe. winners are notified in january. i will load the best 40 that didn’t make the final ten next week ! let me know what you think *
