When Jaco asked me to come to South Africa to head a 2-day convention/workshop I was like…why not!! We love to travel and Africa was one of the only continents we had not traveled to yet. So I suggested we arrange it more like my SWB workshops here in the states. That was not an easy task. We had about 80 photographers and I still wanted everyone to get a chance to shoot some models. We had 2 models dressed in amazing bride dresses! We split the class up in half and I talked while I shot. Then I turned them lose! But we had big areas to shoot from and everyone moved around and found their own area to make something special out of it. We shot at a large Las Vegas style casino. You could not believe the different angles everyone got. I taught a ton of compositional training for half a day before we went out to shoot. The shooting and critiquing was one full days worth of material and style, branding and marketing took up one full day.

Totally successful class and I had a blast! South Africans are so dang friendly and we loved hanging out with everyone!

Kassandra and little Asia came along and we traveled to some wild game parks to see real (in your face) lions, elephants, hippos and just about any other animal you thought Africa would have. Amazing!!

Thanks everyone!! Jaco you are a great host and you put together a fantastic workshop!

These are some of my favorite shots from a few of the photographers attending.