Chinese New Year has just passed and I decided to surprise my wife and take her out to the Nan Hua temple on the east rand to go have a look at the festivities and shoot some photos..

Unfortunately it was so hot that day we ended up spending it at home under the aircon and in the pool and by the time we got to the temple, all the festivities had finished but we still walked around and shot some photos of the temple.. Hope you like the images..

For those of you that don’t know, RAD Motors is the new flagship store for the KTM brand here in South Africa. They are located in a real impressive building as you can see..

I organized with the owners if I could hang around one evening after they closed to shoot a couple of pictures of the outside of the building and also managed to spend some time inside getting a couple of pictures of some really sexy looking pieces of machinery.. Let me know what you think……

Explosive! That is one of the words that could explain the first show i’ve seen of Bloodline’s in ages!!

Its been a while since I saw these guys play and a few things have changed.. Pepe is off the drums now and on a guitar and Trevor is even larger (physically and emotionally) on stage! But as a whole, their presence on stage is phenomenal!! Its just such a pity that the SA Hardcore scene has dipped the way it is.. These guys deserve to be on a big stage with room to move and of course fantastic lights for me to shoot awesome pictures! Really hope I get to see them perform somewhere else and soon!

Well this is something a little different from what I normally go out and shoot..

I decided to head out to the botanical gardens in Roodepoort to relax a bit while on holiday and walk around and shoot whatever I saw and to also play with the new Macro lens Claudia and I got for Xmas from St Nick!

The last image is 4 shots stitched together and was super peaceful sitting there relaxing..

Hope you enjoy the images..

What an amazing display of Xmas spirit! This apparently is an electrician’s house that he has decorated for the season.. So glad I got to see it with my beautiful wife!

There were a constant stream of cars and spectators coming to have a look at the display.. Pretty damn awesome to see!

Merry Xmas everyone!

Claudia decided she wanted to do the Zoo trot a couple of weekends ago so I tagged along with my gear and wandered around shooting while she was working up a sweat..

I don’t generally like zoo’s but they are really trying at the Joburg zoo to further improve the quality of living for the animals and it really is a nice day out for the family..

Now that I have got my lovely wife in to shooting photos with my “hand-me-down” D300 we decided to spend a bit of time at the bird park again shooting..

Well it didn’t pan out as planned because as we got there and started to walk around, I found that my battery was flat.. No problem, I got a spare……. Well that was flat too!!!! *sigh*

I managed to get a couple shots off but then spent the rest of the time carrying the equipment while Claudia shot and I tried to help where I could..

This next pic was awesome, every time I put my bag down, this little guy would come walking over and wanted to eat the bag so Claudia held the bag up and I got down to snap a shot or two before he wanted to grab the lens and then one of the handlers came over and took him away (Lame)..

Its been a while since I spent some time at the track shooting or even riding so when I saw Coups’ status saying that he was going out in the morning I decided to tag along..

Unfortunately it was so damn hot, we were more concerned in finding some shade and some cold water to drink! Definitely want to head out again when its a bit cooler and shoot some more..

Just recently I decided to splurge a bit and buy myself a 400mm lens and a couple days later the Netstar helicopter was circling around our area obviously tracking a stolen car or something..

I decided to try the lens out properly for the first time and took a couple shots before it flew off.. Well the 80-400 didn’t last very long and I now know that I definitely want the 200-400 lens so I’m going to have to start saving quite hectically!

Unfortunately this is the last band I could shoot on the night and it was also another first for me to see.. The Arrows

These ladies really know how to have a good time on the stage too and the interaction with the crowd was awesome with their little Drum/Dance battle! It really was impressive to see these ladies perform with such passion and love for what they do!