Jordanther

This is Jordan aka Jordanther, father of a 'lil princess. He just had his face rebuilt after an accident. Last week the doctors grinded away at his titanium cheek bone to make it look more like the other side. He is one of the best BMXers I know and I have him to thank for my Modest Mouse fetish. This was taken whilst out riding a few weeks back.

Fourways Sunrise

This morning while taking photos of a car I shot this sunrise. The sky is so clean at the moment after the rains. Summer is here.

Dell-icious

This is Tim Dell aka Dell-icious. He just recently got tattoos on his chest and his momma don't know. He might get paranoid when he sees this post, I can only hope. Nothing like making your friends to sweat a little. Tim rides for Iron Fist and wanted to shoot some riding pics for a team update. After we had a chilled session at Montecasino I pulled him aside to mess about with some "available light" shots. This is the result.

Give'r

These shots are of a friend who is in my thoughts right now. They were taken when he was last in SA around two years ago. On Sunday whilst riding he took a severe blow to the head which has resulted in damage to his brain stem, just how bad I don't know as he is still in a coma but Mike is an awesome dude and I'm hopeful he'll make a full recovery. All my thoughts are with his wife Trista, son Owen and the rest of the family.

Give'r Mike

Maserati GranSport

The other day I was asked to shoot photos of a Maserati Continental GranSport. It's not a new car and the style is quite dated but man alive this was one of the best cars I've driven to date. Unfortunately the styling of the car does nothing to reflect what it feels like to drive. It felt every bit of what you'd expect a sports car to feel like. Rock-hard suspension, jerky gear changes and enough g-force when you put your foot down to do more good for wrinkles than a years treatment of botox. The best part was that I was able to have the car overnight so time to shoot was on my side. Thanks to the nice folks at Velmore Estate for the lovely venue and no thanks for the damn emu that kept harassing me. These pics are a few that weren't published. Check out the November issue of Cars In Action magazine to see the story.

Summer in Abaddon

I'm busy listening to Pinback, as some might have figured by the title of this post, which in no way refers to Joburg. I love Joburg and am pretty psyched on the following shots.

Hot Hatch Festival 2008

My life seems to revolve around cars more and more these days. Having two of my best friends mad about VW's has been a very strong reason as to why. Their passion and love for VW's, especially their own, is infectious. This past weekend Maldino Customs who are very much a part of the VW scene in SA hosted their annual Hot Hatch Festival at Tarlton Raceway so I went along in the morning and snapped a few photos, including a real cheese shot of a demo girl posing on Brad's car (haha, wasn't my idea but was definitely entertaining).

Gonzo

This is my friend Jordan and his dog, Gonzo. Gonzo rates as one of my favorite dogs of all time, he's always wanting to play and never tires out. The fact that his head is way too big for his body just adds that much more to his persona.

The Motor Workshack

I am currently shooting a Johannesburg scene report for Ride UK BMX Mag and yesterday a bunch of us headed out to town to get some riding/shooting done. For the last spot we ended up somewhere in the south where I came across this motor workshack on the side of the road. It's run by three guys (who were pretty drunk) and they were kind enough to let me shoot some pictures of them. It's places like this that you'd only ever find in SA.

Red Bull Empire Of Dirt

Just over a month ago I got to shoot the Red Bull Empire Of Dirt in England. It was the first ever slope style BMX dirt event of its kind with all the best dirt jumpers in attendance. The event was insane and I am so thankful to Taryn and Tristan at Red Bull SA for the life changing experience I had there. The idea was to get the event covered in Blunt magazine however Touchline Media shut down the publication whilst I was in England. Blunt has however kept its website running and they posted the write up I did on the event. So for more pictures and the full story click here.

The Lesser Spotted Short Stop

Everyone has that one friend who every once in a while just gets wild. Well I have a few of these friends and they never cease to entertain me. Recently I went on a charity road race (Cannonball Run) with my shortest friend Brad and his alter ego The Lesser Spotted Short Stop. These pictures are of The Lesser Spotted Short Stop and rumour has it he went swimming in a crocodile invested river in Botswana this past weekend. When I asked what possessed him to do such a thing I got a one word answer in my inbox "booze".

Ingozi

Sometimes you just spot signs and feel compelled to shoot them. This was one of those times.

Double Down Grudge

The other day I hung out at some friends' hotel room and we messed around with some lighting they had hired for a film job. My new D300 has multiple exposure which my previous camera didn't have so I decided to mess around with that. Here are two double exposure results and then a grudge for good measure.

Georgia At War... Again

Two years ago I went on a trip to Georgia (formerly part of Russia) as part of tv show pilot for MTV. Back then it was believed that many Chechnian Rebels were hiding there. The tv show called "Vagabondz" was/is to be a travel show that would test pre-conceived ideas of places and thus we went to Georgia (despite being warned we'd be beheaded) to try find the rebels and shoot machine guns with them.

Well as if you couldn't guess already we didn't find any rebels let alone any form of gun in the country. In fact whenever we asked about guns, people who had been so friendly to us would get so offended and turn their backs to us leaving us feeling like insensitive pricks. Georgians are perhaps the friendliest most receptive and hospitable nation I have yet come across. They were so proud of their freedom from Russia and the peace they had fought for. It really is a shame to see the chaos that Russia has yet again inflicted on them. Seeing on the news some of the places I visited having just been bombed saddens me. Those great people don't need this. Hell no one needs war, lets get over ourselves already.

Here are some pics from that trip.