Not a snotty family

I did male grooming for a Huisgenoot cover shoot with Snotkop (Francois Henning - formerly known as kwaito singer Lekgoa, made his first kwaito CD in 2000 and then went back to afrikaans music where he signed his first label in 2004 with Next Music and from there he has not looked back *thanks Google*), we shot at his parents home and I am so pleased I got to meet them. His parents are the cutest things! His mom flitted around us and wanted to be sure we were comfortable and thoroughly nourished the entire time. She set out a platter with cupcakes for us, and even laid them out in a pretty pattern, I just had to take a pic:

Mom: "ooh no wait my darling, I'm not finished yet"
Of course not, she wouldn't serve us sweet things without some savoury options too. Bless her
One of the shots was of Francois and his father sitting at a garden table, chatting, laughing, enjoying the sunshine. The photographer asked for some props "some flowers, something to drink?", Mom was on it! She was back in a flash with props in hand.SK: "No Mom, we can't drink brandy in the photos, no, Mom, it's a family magazine!"

Bless her!

Undercover at a cover shoot

I was on the way to a shoot for Aim's Living Well magazine, the May/June 2011 cover, when I got a call from the tog:

Matt: "You are going to kill me"
Me: "WHAT DID YOU DO?!?"
Matt: "I forgot my camera at home"

To put the problem in perspective it was rush hour traffic time, and 'home' is in Hartebeespoort. We were in Roodepoort. Oops.

So Matt sweet talked his wife and convinced her to bring the camera, and along with that came their 3 kids. 3 kids who decided that being at daddy's office was the perfect chance for prank calling, each other. Each kid ran to a desk and started dialling a sibling's extension number.

"Hello Mrs Smith, you need to come fetch your child from school, he is being terribly naughty"
"Hello is that Mr Jones? This is the police and we are coming to arrest you"
"Hello Mrs Evans you have won a million Rand"

These weren't the actual conversations, I can't remember them all but they went along these lines.

One of the conversations I do remember clearly was made by the boss to his employee: "You stupid woman, you're fired!!"

At this point dad stepped in. "That's enough! You don't talk like that to anyone! You kids are being a nuisance and this stops right now". He had his angry face and stern voice which I'm sure works in most reprimanding situations but the kids just blinked a few times and carried on dialling each other. Why? Mom. She joined in on the fun. Good cop, bad cop.

But sometimes even the toughest cops can be lured to the dark side:
Dad with scary voice: "I know where you are and I'm coming to get you"
Youngest daughter in the next door office: *SHRIEK*
*Scary dad dials the next number* "I know where you are and I'm coming to get you"..... "It's my son, I'm getting burps. He doesn't scare as easily"

Believe it or not we did eventually get around to shooting the cover