I decided that I will try again this year. Every time it is so difficult for me to make a selection of 10 images to enter this competition. I went thru thousands of photos to get to 10 and I’m still not entirely sure that I made the right choice, with photography it’s or any other art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You will end up with a mix of what you like and what think the judges will like, it’s always like that.

First up are my 10 entries, followed by the ones who nearly made it. It was very very difficult to make and it took me hours of just staring at my screen and doing a bit of eeny meeny miny moe, some help from people on my facebook page and my girl Liezl.

Follow the link to see the other photos which nearly made it into the top ten!

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This is just phenomenal! It’s a known fact that explosives only destroy but this artist has managed to create via destruction, a very unique point of view that stirrs the deep burrows of your mind, beautifully captured in slow mo and set against a wicked soundtrack. (via thisiscolossal.com)

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Just had to share it

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Yes, it’s official, I have been named as an Ambassador for their products after reviewing some of the work I have done over the years using their superb line of flashes. I am very honored to represent this amazing range of flash equipment, they are in my mind the Ferrari’s and Bugatti Veiron’s or professional flash equipment, simply superb! They are represented in South Africa by the sunshineco. They also hire a wide range of equipment to professionals and they have a super efficient service department. From lighting to camera gear, the full kit in one place.

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This is so cool, you gotta go over to his site and check it out! One of those, I should have thought of that moments THE ROBOT BOOK.

Wish I could get my hands on one, he only has 11 of these books and they probably all sold out already.

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I came across this site a while ago and it’s been slowly updating every few months and finally it’s complete. Complied by Alan Taylor it paints a very poignant picture of the world at war and the consequences and the people, click here to view it the entire collection.

Here are some of my favorites. This first one was shot by Ansel Adams in one of the Japanese “concentration camps” in the USA, officially labeled internment settlements via Executive Order 9066 as issued by Pres. Roosevelt. That is one thing that really gets me about the world war 2, the Germans where severely persecuted and prosecuted for their concentration camps but it’s quite alright for the Americans to do something similar and then upon that humiliation to Americans of Japanese decent, go bomb the hell out of Japan with not only two atomic bomb drops but they killed over 100 000 thousand civilians in one air raid with their incendiary bombing on March 10, 1945. One night! That is more people that were killed in the first atomic bomb drop over Hiroshima. This is the really interesting bit, it took 1700 tonnes of bombs to destroy Tokyo and kill over 100 000 people and only 600 milligrams of the 64kg Uranium core ignited and released energy that caused the destruction of Hiroshima. Ok I dont want to get too preachy now, but please if you have time, go to the site and browse thru the library of images, there are some truly stunning pictures, I know this is not really an upbeat post but one I felt I had to share. Please this also goes with a warning, there are some graphic images that might upset the sensitive viewer.

Images that might be of interest to those that do not like doom and gloom are the color photographs used for propaganda, as seen below, really stunning images.

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Over the weekend I had the opportunity to play around with a tilt shift lens from Nikon, the unique 45mm f2.8 model at BH. Locally at ORMS. Everything on the lens is fully manual, no auto focus so forget about it! Unfortunately the tilt locking switch was not working properly so I had to tape the tilt from moving around during long exposures. The shift was working just fine and it was quite a challenge to focus in the dark but shooting and checking on your LCD screen does help with that. So the proof is in the pudding as they say and I must admit, these moonlit pictures are way cool! I WANT ONE! The lens that is.

Unfortunately these lenses are cest tres expensive! Round $1800 in the states (R14750.00) and locally in a shop it will set you back around R 20 000 large ones!! That is quite an investment for a lens that is slow to shoot with, meaning you need to time to set up a shot and shoot it, not a point and shoot lens, as I said, everything is manual on the lens, even the aperture has to be turned old school on the lens it self, which is awesome and that’s why I love it!

All the images were shot at night with available light on a Nikon D3. Hand held. NOT! Ok I’m good but not “that” good..

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Hey all! Yes that’s right, I am very excited to announce that I’ll be launching a brand new website soon! It won’t replace my blog it will compliment it. It will boast for the first time ever a complete gallery from a selection of weddings in one place! The selection process is proving to be very time consuming and difficult, I have thus far gone through 5 years of weddings and over 60 000 images!

!UPDATE! It has arrived – http://ericuysphotography.com

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT I HAVE COUPLE AND PORTFOLIO SHOOT SPECIALS GOING ON AT THE MOMENT! – Click for more info

I have been a wedding photographer in Cape Town since officially shooting my first wedding in 2003. So here’s a trip down memory lane, images from weddings I shot back in 2007!

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I was down at the marina and I happened to have most of my gear with me and saw some guys doing parkour aka karumi-jutsu and asked them if they could fly and do backflips.. sadly they could not This is the best we could come up with.. Hope you like as it is something different for a change! Thanks Chris and Searl!

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Hello fellow readers and perusers of my blog. Thank you for the kind support. It is always encouraging and helpful to hear of the joy my work brings to people as well as comments and words of admiration. Not many people know this but I have averages around one to two free wedding shoots per year to some lucky individuals. the circumstances for which are very very specific and special. Usually involving an exotic location abroad to which I would love to travel, so keeping that spirit in mind. I propose, please write to me, tell me your story and  you could win a free wedding shoot and here comes the but! But only if all other expenses are catered for and it will need to fall into an exotic location of my choice. In other words. if you are getting married in a place where I would really love to travel to, then you might just be the lucky couple!

Places I want to travel to:
- New York City
- Japan (anywhere in Japan)
- Most of the exotic islands in the Pacific area of Hawaii
- Iceland
- Thailand
- Vancouver
- France
- Sweden

And then I am open to other suggestions. Looking forward to hearing from you! Ciao

Here for your pleasure, some weddings I have shot abroad:
Debi & Thomas in Italy
Nico & Angela in London

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