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Blog Post #124 // Ironman 70.3 East London | I am a buffalo [154 days to Race Day]

Ironman 70.3 Buffalo City, East London 2017: Registration Successful – Payment Complete.

154 days to Race Day. Almost 245 days since I last made a post.

Yes, I have entered again- and this time for [word has it] a tougher 70.3 than Durban. I think I might be suffering from OCD. The type where I have to do all three South African Ironman events in order to feel like I have completed this challenge…

Blog Post #123 | Ironman 70.3 Durban | I am a beast

It’s early morning as I glance over my shaven legs and I look at the confirmation email in my inbox.

Ironman 70.3 Durban 2016: Registration Successful – Payment Complete

I’m actually going to do this. I have finally reached the point where that confirmation email is looking back at me from my inbox. Ed thinks back over the last 2 weeks of self-talk and realizes that his first goal turned affirmat…

Self Talk 102 | Affirmations

So the first time I had a chance to think after Bali was in my short break between the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016. I spent no time on the beach. I spent it in front of paper. I spent the time thinking and planning and writing down the things I wanted to see happening in the new year.

Maybe the fact that I’m turning 30 is motivating me to finish off the goals I’ve been sitting on during…

When Chris and I returned from Bali something had shifted in our hearts.

Once again we saw the world for what it was and recognised how the machine of society and expectation had slowly been reeling us in. We’d been in Bali for almost two weeks, ended up at Le Sabot on the cliffs of the Impossibles Beach in Padang Padang and got talking to Eric.

Years ago Eric escaped the machine, the rat race,…

Celebrating Erich's 1st Birthday | All captured in Blog Post #120 | One year in an Air Balloon

A month ago our little nephew turned 1 year old.

Being the only one in our family who can take decent pictures, Chris and I left the Saturday morning city buzz for a sweet little birthday party in Paarl; ready to capture the event. Normally when Chris comes home after doing shopping for the toddlers in our family,

she grins at me with a I-want-a-baby-sparkle in her eye.

It’s thanks to these…

The world's illusion of Paradise Blog Post #119 | It's a heart life in the Desert

It’s been over 2 months since I sat down and wrote something.

It’s like I’m walking in a desert and I’m barely surviving. I’m on my way to a destination consumed by this deadline to arrive. I have no water left. My resources are depleted and the soles of my sandals are as thin as the moulted epidermis of a snake.

Why am I so pressured by this deadline? This imaginary destination that I have to…

Blog Post #118 | The Fat Model Inside

“You really look like Emma Watson!”

Something I hear almost every day of my life. Sometimes it’s Cara Delevingne and on the odd occasion it’s Lana Del Rey. I never know how to respond and even though I don’t always agree with people’s comparisons of me to these famous faces, it does leave me questioning myself after a long day of shooting.

Who would I like to be associated with? Who am I?What…

Capturing Karien's 2nd Birthday Party in Blog Post #117 | Two | Moo | Karien

Chris and I drive through to Karien’s 2nd birthday party in small town Paarl. Leaving the city we unwind and feel how the winter sun soothes tense muscles and cold feet. We arrive at the party venue finding Marli running around finishing the last decorations and Johan in the back of the kitchen making minced meat and cheese toasties. I check my camera batteries and Chris scatters a couple of…

Blog Post #116 | Morning hair in Prince's Square

I went for a haircut yesterday. Martin asked me how I was and whether I was enjoying staying in the Bo Kaap of Cape Town. It’s been 2 months since we left the little cottage in Kenilworth that we’d been housesitting and I realized that I still hadn’t met my neighbours.

I was just living in a new neighbourhood but I wasn’t actually part of the community.

Kenilworth and the coming Autumnhad shown…

Blog Post #115 | 2 Tickets to Turkey

The short and the sweet | This past weekend I took part in a race and entered the #BestDressed competition by dressing like a long distance running Egyptian Pharaoh!!

Good News | I made it under the Top 7 #BestDressed contestants.

Bad News | I am not leading and the competition closes on Monday 25 May.

Bottom line | PLEASE follow this link and VOTE for me! | Prize | 2 Tickets to Istanbul

[If I…

Blog Post #114 | Sunny in Salalah

I think this past weekend might have been the last sunny weather in Cape Town. We spent Sunday with Chris’s mom for Mother’s Day and the oh so familiar elements of food and ocean and mother-in-law reminded me of our roadtrip in Oman. I have already captured our Omani roadtrip in  Making Time to Live but I never did share anything about the destination.

Salalah | Arabic صلالة 2nd Largest city in…

Blog Post #113 | Garreth Barclay | 2015

After my test shoot with Cornelius Käss my book still needed some lingerie shots. My agency paired me up with well-known South African photographer Garreth Barclay and the following edgy images were the result of our shoot. Jauneileen Lodge did the styling and Sian Bianca Moss hair and make-up.

So a few weeks ago there was a scout from Hong Konglooking to sign some models for their season over…

Blog Post #112 | Cornelius Käss | 2015

A lot can happen in six months. Ed shared our adventures in 4 new countries while we had the opportunity of spending time with both our parents and each other.

Not only did I get to know my inlaws much better, but I’ve fallen even deeper in love with this unreal husband of mine. You won’t easily find a more kind and pure heart.

We made wonderful and unforgettable new memories which took on a new…

Ever done research on your name? For a university assignment I recently made some people laugh and ponder | Post #111 | What's in a name?

Today I heard what the name of my soon-to-be nephew is going to be and it reminded me of an assignment that I had to do just about a week ago. Chris and I haven’t studied so hard in years. Apart from our Psychology and Anthropology subjects we have a couple of compulsary subjects that don’t really have much to do with our degree. One of these modules this semester is called Language through an…

Blog Post #110 | Child of Dreams

It’s nearly midnight when I trade my warm spot next to Chris in bed for the couch and the mac. This week I visited internal valleys that Chris had not yet ventured to with me and even arrived at peaks where Chris could share in my heart’s delights. One of them was the cutting-the-cake party and discovering that my brother and his wife are having a baby boy.

So what started off as another…

Blog Post #109 | Making time to Live

“I don’t just want to put my head down and finish my degree, I want to live and finish my degree.“

I found myself saying this to a friend the other night when we spoke about quality life.

For the last two weeks I realized that there is no way I would be able to finish my 3 year degree in 4 years and still have a quality life, as I was planning to. Working full time eats away more of my time than…

Blog Post #108 | Early bird catches the worm

I hate waking up early on a Saturday.

It’s the only day of the week that I have the opportunity to sleep in. I sit on the cream coloured couch and in silence I listen to the ambient sounds of our temporary and new home.

The clock’s ticking on the wall vibrates through the cottage and forms a rhythm for the symphony of natural sounds that join in. Occasional acorns drop on the roof, leaves swoosh…