Archive for March, 2007
South African wedding photography
Friday, March 30th, 2007
I’m often asked whether I travel for weddings. Yes is the resounding answer. I do. Sometimes Dorset, occasionally Kent, often Wiltshire and Oxfordshire, and then… South Africa. Some images from Graham and Karen’s South African wedding. The Heia Safari Ranch in Muldersdrift is 45 minutes from Johannesburg’s airport, but what a difference those few miles make. When you fly into Heathrow looking down, it’s never quite apparent where London ends and other towns start. They simply merge together. The first thing that struck me about Johannesburg is the city and sprawling townships seem to extend to a point then, as if someone has drawn a straight line over which you couldn’t even lay a single brick, the city stops and the bush begins. And so we arrived at the Heia. Built in the 70s, it is a rags to riches tale of a former £20 a week gold prospector, who fell in love with the country he had emigrated to, stayed and built an African empire. Heia now boasts it’s own game reserve, an hotel and conference centre, plus Zulu camp to maintain and promote traditions fast disappearing. And this is the place Graham and Karen (UK residents) fell in love with and decided to use for their very special day.
