Pro photographer, videographer and aerial drone pilot, co-owner of Outdoor Video & Photographic, 2014 SA Best Photographic Blog Winner, 2015 and 2016 Runner Up.
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Signage

JSE Hosts Rugby Star

We often have fun creating videos for our clients, but sometimes there is a highlight worth sharing with everyone, such as the market open event with a difference that we recently covered for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Springbok Duane Vermeulen, South African Rugby Player of the Year, Players’ Player of the Year and Vodacom Super Rugby Player of the Year, was invited to open the JSE trading day by blowing the kudu horn, a practice unique to the JSE, while most other stock exchanges around the world open their trading day with the ringing of a bell. Continue reading “JSE Hosts Rugby Star”

DJI Inspire 1 Drone

Aerial Drone Update

Following much deliberation and delay, drone flying in South Africa is soon to become “legal and licenced”, at least for commercial drone operators, via new drone regulations that “are anticipated to be promulgated towards the end of March 2015” as per an informative article by John Gore, published at www.filmcontact.com. The proposed legislation is impressive, with stringent rules regarding licencing, pilot qualifications and go/no go fly areas, etc. Continue reading “Aerial Drone Update”

Grammy Award Winner Wouter Kellerman

Memorable Market Open

Music can truly stir the soul, sometimes at unexpected times and places. We were treated to this recently when we filmed a memorable opening of the market at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The guest of honour was acclaimed SA flautist and music composer, Wouter Kellerman, fresh from winning a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for Winds of Samsara, which he created in collaboration with Indian composer and producer, Ricky Kej. The album, dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, also reached #1 on the US Billboard New Age Albums Chart. Continue reading “Memorable Market Open”