Happy Anniversary...

30 Years...

...is how long my parents have been married today, 17 December 2010.

My mom had just turned 20 and my dad was a mere 21 when they exchanged vows in 1980 and 30 years, countless ups and downs and four children later, they still have the world to talk about, cannot imagine life without one another and still look into each other's eyes with utter devotion.

To those of you who do not believe in fairy tale love, these two people are proof of its existence...

Some pictures of their three decades together...

God With Us



With the parents on their wedding day...

 

Christmas before children

The crazy 80's

On a gondola in Venice (a typical romantic scene)

And my absolute favourite, their Sound of Music moment in Austria....

Happy Anniversary!

Paolo Roversi and the Meaning of Magic

Paolo Roversi was born in Ravenna in 1947 and started out in a cellar for a darkroom. Some of his first jobs included photographing a funeral and celebrities, but he moved to Paris in 1973 and after working as a journalist for the Huppert Agency, he turned to fashion photography. He has worked for a large variety of fahion magazined, including Elle, Depeche Mode and Marie Claire (who gave him his first big break.)

I love how he makes his subjects seem mysterious, intriguing, maybe even out of this world.

 "Photography goes beyond the limits of reality and illusion. It brushes up against another life, another dimension, revealing not only what is there but was is no there. Every photograph is an encounter, an intimate, reciprocal confession."

- Paolo Roversi 

Photography is art, but in his photos, there is a romantic meeting between fine art and photography.

"Like any art worthy of the name, the most brazen lie can evolve into surprising and seductive truth."

- Paolo Roversi

For more: http://www.paoloroversi.com/

Sandton Square

One of my favourite places in Johannesburg, Sandton Square - it's like walking into a European town in the middle of Africa.