Jeanette Verster Photography

Lori’s family at home

Jeanette — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:16:57 +0000

Lori contacted me a few weeks ago for a photoshoot. There was a proviso though. It had to be done by today… you see, her brother John is moving to South Korea tomorrow and the family wanted photos before he left.

Well, I met them at her parent’s place this morning, and we had quite a bit of fun trying to get Joe (her 3 year old son) to enjoy the experience, but the hard work paid off in the end… and here are some of the resulting photos

204/365 – Apprehensive

Jeanette — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:53:07 +0000

You don’t need to see her face to understand what she was feeling…

See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.

203/365 – A detour up the hill

Jeanette — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:17:48 +0000

The traffic was insane this evening and I didn’t go my normal route home; AND I knew I was going to be too late to walk the dogs; AND the sun looked amazing, AND the sky was all murky… all those factors convinced me to take a small detour up Northcliff Hill before the sun set.

I have been wanting to get up there for months, to see if it was still gated, and whether I’d be able to do a shoot there.

I wasn’t disappointed… it’s stunning up there… although I didn’t feel safe enough wandering about on my own when the sun really got low… and in fact I missed the most amazing sunset because of my fear. Anyhoo, I got some amazing photos anyway… and I’m going to go back… with someone in tow though.

See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.

202/365 – Link in the chain

Jeanette — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:29:06 +0000

See the full set of 2010 photo-a-day photos on my Project 365 Flickr Set.

27 Dinner at Rocket Restaurant

Jeanette — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:50:09 +0000

The 27 Dinner was held at the Rocket Restaurant in Rivonia this evening, and it rocked! The venue rocked, the food and drinks (sponsored by FNB) rocked, the speakers rocked and the crowd was great tonight. For some reason, I got to speak to more people tonight than I have done in the last few 27 Dinners. I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

The twitterfall in action with the #27dinner hashtag

Not sure what Brett Haggard was up to here

And what’s a geek gettogether without a macbook? Not sure what Walter Pike, Paul Bedford and Kerry Haggard were doing

Chris Savides from FNB spoke about Paypal’s new developer competition and how FNB will sponsor one SA development company a trip to San Francisco; and some of their plans to extend the Paypal offering to Rands and he spoke about transaction kickbacks for eCommerce developers when integrating their client applications. It’s a real pity he couldn’t talk about how many users there are in South Africa however, and how much growth there is… the only thing he would say was that the numbers are bigger than we all think.

Philly_girl tweeting again and Saulk

eBucks CEO Yolande

Jessica got very excited with all the food, but was seriously only interested in the desserts

Then Achal Prabhala, who is based in Bangalore, India; and works on the advisory board of the Wikimedia foundation spoke about Wikipedia and how they are trying to grow it in South Africa. This sparked quite a few comments about how people had tried to edit some articles etc and the problems they’ve experienced… and basically he just said that you just need to try again because the process has changed and is more robust.

Melody Maker tweeting

… and Elan tweeting too…

Lastly, Rabin Harduth did a little stand up comedy before the most amazing brownies arrived…. ooh… and the most decadent hot chocolate too!

EveD enjoyed the joke

Some networking… what the 27 dinner is all about

Poor Craig‘s car broke down on the way there, but he was determined… and got there a few minutes before I had to leave

Samuraibunny and Telana

It was an awesome evening… thanks very much to Cerebra for organising it!