Some more holiday pics

Last night and all of today we had an immense amount of rain. This gave me some nice photo opportunities .

;o)

We are here!!

My inlaws gave us a quick midweek break and so we are having a bit of a break at a place called Kiara Lodge , close to Clarens and Golden Gate.

Absolutely wonderful place , with beautiful mountains, a dam , swimming pool, etc.

We will be back at home on Friday afternoon.

;o)

What an awesome God we have !!

This is a copy of the post on my business blog.

I love taking photos of lightning.

I love to just sit and watch and marvel in the awesome power of the God who created something as awesome as lightning:

Jucky day

Today I am feeling jucky. I am feeling unapreciated, unimportant and taken for granted.

And because of this i am grumpy!

I need/want to be the most important person in my wife's life. Unfortunately i feel like i end up a very poor last after the church, it's politics and all the other struggling people in it.

Make no mistake, it is not that i want to add to my wife's troubles and pressures. I want to share and help carry them. I want to be her best friend with whom she can laugh and cry about everything.

The problem is that her work is such a noble thing. She lives to serve God. All that she does is for the betterment of God's kingdom. Now who am i to be jealous of that? How can i (how dare i) compete with God ?

It's a pity that this blog is not anonemous,because i know that my wife for one will read this. And that reading this will add to her pressure.

So do i publish this? I don't know. But looking at her and some of the other blogs where people are honest about themselves i think i owe it to myself to go ahead and publish this.

I need to also start to be honest on my blog.

So here goes.

PS: i dearly love my wife. And i respect her Godly work ethic. I love to hear her laugh and see her smile. I can not (i do not want to) imagine my life without her.

Pray for me. And my wife. And pray for my business.

;-)

I am back

I have been back from the hike for a week , but with a huge backlog of work I only now get a chance to show my face.

Since we last saw each other I have shot a wedding for Pieter and Anneke.

Then I went on the hike. Came back, met a couple of people for business, Shot something for Old mutual and O - magazine and tried to catch up with all the editing of photos that waited for me.

I am nearly back on track.

Anyway , back to the hike.

There is only one way to describe it: AWESOME !!!!!! Absolutely fantastic.

Here is one or two pics for you to look at.

Oh , and I have done my first nude photo shoot for a friend. There is probably lots of ethical questions around a Christian doing something like that.

I will simply say this: I have had the privilege to see a lady feel really sexy and proud of her body. I have had the honour of boosting her self confidence and making her feel good about herself. And with that I am happy. All was done very tastefully and professionally, and I have a clear conscience.

any way here are the pics:

Of this and that

Will you believe it, I am still around.

Thank you to the faithfull few who still popped around to see if i have posted any thing new.

I am having a difficult month. With the fact that we are going on a hike in the tsitsikamma mountains my month is about 10 days shorter. That gives me ten days less in which to earn my income.

Make no mistake, I can not wait to go on the hike, but it does make my life a little difficult.

And then , my little dog is sick. Had her to the VET this morning, but he wasn't sure what the problem was. It seems I will have to take her back there tomorrow. I really hope that he will be able to sort her out.

I am shooting a matric farewell on wednesday , a job for Nedbank on Friday, A wedding on Saturday , and then I leave for the hike on monday morning. Gonna be a wild week.

God bless

;o)

Hospitals

I have never been very fond of hospitals.

And right now I find myself sitting in one, waiting for my wife to return from an op that they need to do on her.

I brought my laptop along as I knew that I will have to sit here and wait for her to come back from the op and I knew that it will give me something to do.

I must be honest. I do not like it one bit. Having to sit here and wait. Waiting....
Having to trust that the doctors will not screw up. Waiting ....

Hoping that the doctors will be able to sort out what is wrong with her.

Have I said that I do not like doctors ? I think most of them are only in it for the money.

And so I sit here and I wait.

And while I wait I realize how much I love my wife. And I realise how lonely and pathetic my life would have been without her. And I pray that she will be safe. I can not begin to think of my life without her.

I thank God for being blessed with the most incredible girl in my life.



Lief jou meisiekind.

;o)

This weekend

Ok, I know that the order for these two posts are the wrong way around.

I have been to Dewetsdorp over the weekend to take some photos of th 2007 Osram Rally.

you can view some of the photos on my website here.

;o)

Elandi

My best friend and his wife went in to hospital today. And so at 14:35 little Elandi was born by C-section.

And so I want to thank God for the new little life that He has blessed us with.

And I pray for her parents that they will continue to be the wonderful people that they are. I pray that they will have the knowledge, grace, love and patience to raise this little girl in the image of themselves but ultimately the image of God.

I pray for her safety. I pray that she will be a blessing to her parents and all that meet her. I pray that our heavenly Father will bless her.

And I pray for all the little children who do not have such loving parents.

Elandi , little girl, ,may you grow to be strong. May you grow to be proud. May you grow to be a shining light in the image of your Heavenly Father. May God bless you and keep you. May He makes his face to shine upon you and give you peace.

Amen.

Just curious

Is anybody actually reading this blog ???

Feels like I am farting in the wind.

Which begs a question : If a fart rings out in the forrest and there is no one to hear it , Is it still fart ?

Does it still smell ?

;o)