Local Knowledge
Just a short one this week. We were down in Durban wrapping up the photography for a book on KwaZulu Natal and one of the things we had to get was some pix of Hindu Temple Dancers. But how? I thrashed around with some ideas and was getting nowhere very quickly when the thought occurred to me that I should be talking to my friend Raymond Pillay who heads up Assegai and Javelin – an amazing advertising agency in Durban. A quick call and a few minutes later all was set up. Local knowledge at it best!
Well almost. Local, local knowledge is even better. We started doing the shoot at the Palmview Temple, a typical, but rather plain Hindu Temple . Our young (experienced, it turns out) models were beautiful, dressed in their saris and jewellery we did a few pix and then of the mothers suggested that we move location to a temple near where she lived – aparently it was more attractive. We (6 of us) piled into Pat’s little Peugeot 206 (not really a “people carrier” of note) and wound our way through the back streets of Phoenix until we came to the most beautiful of temples and got some really great images of the temple as well as the temple dancers. Local knowledge really does work!
If you need images of temple dancers and other subjects have a look at our Image Bank.
Why not join us on our safari to Madikwe Game Reserve in May where we will be trying to get some great images of wild dogs. More info here: http://www.africaimagery.com/workshops_madikwe.php
