Tuesday, 31 March 2009

City-wide arson attacks :)

A Johannesburg Emergency Services fire-fighter battles a fire in a paper factory in Benrose, Johannesburg.
A small factory fire generally isn't that exciting to photograph, but todays was great, it's been a while since I've done anything that I consider 'real", so it was nice to be out there doing something again. When I was at the building, I spotted another smoke plume on the horizon, I ran to my car and sped there thinking about the possibilities of city-wide arson attacks, when I got there , some grass cutters has simply taken the easy way out and burnt the grass, I turned right around and drove back to the burning building somewhat upset!

Friday, 20 March 2009

Profoto

I guess that shows just how versatile the average photojournalist has got to be :)The image above of Swan Lake at the Civic Theatre in Braamfontein, Johannesburg won Gold in Music/Theatrical category.The image above was taken for my portfolio and won the only Gold award in the Nude category.

Heres a couple of my images that were awarded in the Sony Profoto Awards. Both these received Gold awards in their respective categories. Funny, how I'm a photojournalist, but received all my awards in other categories, Portraiture, Still Life, two in Music/Theatrical and won the only Gold award in the Nude category.