2020 in review

It's finally here. The last month of 2020. First and foremost, let me start off on a note of genuine gratitude: Thank you for your warm support, words of encouragement and the opportunity to allow me to play a small part in your day-to-day existence. It has been an extremely challenging year, but there is a lot to be thankful for.

I think it's so important to look back at your year, and take a moment to reflect on everything that was good. Everything that enriched your life. Made you grow (even if that process was painful). After a year like this, it is probably even more important. I so often felt like everything was lost. Which means that I didn't take the time to really appreciate the good that was happening around me and in me.

Yes, it has been a painful and traumatic year. But along with that, there was enrichment and growth. That which does not kill us, makes us stronger, right?

So, as 2021 looms in the not-so-distant future, holding who-knows-what, join me in taking a moment to take stock. To reflect on both your highs and lows of 2020. To revel in your victories and mourn your losses. And to give yourself a pat on the back for making it through it all.

Next year, we try again.

Here are a few of my highlights from 2020:

My Image of the month | December 2020

I was so happy to be able to finish the year on a high, with a fantastic beach family photo session with dear clients that I've walked a very long journey with...

Magical home water birth | Cornelia

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Four years later:
Parents reflect on hiring a birth photographer

"I was about halfway through my first pregnancy when my gynaecologist handed me birth photography pamphlet. Little did we know that this pamphlet would result in one of the best decisions we would make."

Four years ago, in a twist of fate, I was lucky enough to capture the birth of this little guy.. I recently had the privilege to document their beautiful now in a gorgeous outdoor countryside family photo session in Cape Town.

A Covid 19 hospital birth | Charlotte-Rae

Even with meticulous planning for the birth of Bronté and Grobler's second baby, our carefully thought out plans would be shattered by Covid 19. The implications of the disease and South Africa's lockdown meant a vastly different second birth-experience for this family…

The end of an era

A bitter-sweet moment, when the handover of Marysol's business to me was finally complete... It has been a wonderful, rollercoaster ride, and I've learnt so much from her, both as a seasoned professional birth photographer and just as a warm, lovely person.