The Orange River wine route consists of five wineries situated at Groblershoop, Grootdrink, Upington, Kakamas and Keimoes. Some of the best wines and grape juice come from this harsh region of South Africa, the climate is ideal to grow some of our country's finest export grapes and what better then to use for some of our finest wines.

Now I’m not that big on wine, give me a bit of Jack Daniels and we will be friends forever, but the people of this region is what you have to experience personally. For me, it is impossible to explain the rawness of their culture and they own a version of Afrikaans which is as unique to them as their setting.

This weekend I had the great opportunity to photograph a small community in Grootdrink. My first encounter started off by explaining that the camera isn’t a ‘skiet ding’ but in fact a camera, once that was out of the way I had ‘models’ streaming in left right and center and with a pose directing crowd bumping and shouting behind me we had a big photo shoot right there in the middle of the road.

I wanted to get closer to their homes and intimate environment though and asked if we could move to the houses to take some more photos there, with no protest we jumped the fence and the rest is history.

It was truly a great experience, next objective is to get inside their homes and experience even more of who they are.

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Horseback riding at Korannabergadventures

If I where to fall of this horse, I would have stuck to the ground like a blob of margarine to a kitchen floor. No amount of horse whispering could get this pretty lady on a gallop.

Leonie dubbed her Seabiscuit.

Lone Ranger.





Stunt photography Indiana Jones style