It was actually great having two people for our Newtown Trash the Dress photoshoot with 2 very different styles of dresses, as it allowed me to take very different photos in the same setting.  Here are my favourite photos of Fiona from the afternoon.

This was the closest that we got to having a “groom”

And that’s now the last of the Trash the Dress photos that I’m going to post.  I LOVE doing shoots like this, and hope to do another one really soon!

Yesterday I posted a few photos of Sue and Fiona, from the Trash the Dress photoshoot we did in Newtown, and now the focus is on Sue alone.  Sue was actually supposed to join us on the first TTD session we did a few months ago, but couldn’t make the date in the end, but I think she enjoyed the city setting rather than the veld.

Sue got married almost 7 years ago, and I’m very impressed that she fitted into her dress after all that time!!  Our original idea for the shoot was to really trash the dress with paint, but we chickened out in the end… and just as well, because the fact that her dress was getting filthy from the grungy setting was stressful enough for her.

I hope she had as much fun as I did taking the photos.

So, there you go, so much for only doing a post-wedding shoot within a few months of your wedding… it’s a great idea to don your special dress years later and have some fun in it!

I met a whole load of friends in Newtown on Sunday afternoon for a Trash-the-Dress (or Day-After or un-bridal) photo session with 2 fabulous women who got married a few years ago and wanted to wear their dresses again.

It was loads of fun wandering through the streets of Johannesburg with 2 other photographers (who are also friends of mine), taking photos of Sue and Fiona.  I hope they enjoyed being the centre of attention for the afternoon (including the attention of a number of security guards who kindly took it upon themselves to make sure we were safe)

This is just a taste of what I’m going to show you over the next 2 days, so stay tuned

My cooking yesterday morning inspired me to get to the nursery and buy more herb plants to fill my kitchen garden.  And of course, I couldn’t just buy herbs once I got there! This all meant that I spent time in my garden yesterday, and had to get my camera out too!

Tamara suggested I get some indigenous osteopermums for my garden, and I do actually have the plain ones already, but when I noticed these petal-spoon ones on special at the nursery, I just had to get some to add more purple to my garden.

And look what I noticed buzzing around my Felicia’s… check out the full pollen sacks on his legs!

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On my other blog, I’ve mentioned that I’m trying to cook a new recipe at least once a week.  I haven’t done it in a few weeks, as it’s been kind of hectic, but we had a quiet day today, so I got my Jamie Oliver recipe books out and chose to cook his slow cooked lamb with roasted vegetables from his Jamie’s Dinners book.

I haven’t quite followed the recipe, because I couldn’t get shoulder of lamb so I bought a leg, and I forgot to buy celery (but I don’t like it anyway), and it been cooking in my slow cooker for about 5 hours already (instead of the oven).  I really hope it tastes as good as it smells at the moment!

What’s really cool is that I’ve picked all the herbs for the dish from my garden.  That rosemary and bits of thyme that you can see sticking out of the lamb was picked as I prepared the dish.  It’s the first time that I’ve cooked with the bay leaves from my tree – in fact I now have 3 bay trees!