Andrew Strobridge

     Yes it’s true… My external hard drive broke. For those of you that do not understand the gravity of this situation, just imagine you work out of your home, and all your hard work is in your home along with some of your cool fun stuff. Now Imagine that your house burns down. And you don’t have any time to save anything or recover anything after the fire. Long story short. All my photos are gone. All my photos from Japan and Israel and here and there. Everything except the low res copies that I might have uploaded on here. Soooo I don’t have as many cool photos to show you. I know I know, that’s the only reason you look at this blog anyway. But Just think, everything you see from here on out will be fresh and new and amazing. For starters, I have a few photos from the last few days that I took post accident. So check ‘em out and enjoy!

As you can see from these three photos, I have been messing around with long exposures in the evening as well as cross-processing in post. (messing with colours) 

For those of you that are wondering what exactly I’ve been up to here is an update. 
At the moment I have 4 things going on.

#1. Working on anti-trafficking adverts for  the world cup.
#2. Helping out staffing a video school.
#3. Planning the photography school that I will be leading in October. 
#4. Working in the graphics department

The Anti-trafficking adverts are going really well and it’s so amazing to be working with such amazing people. I’m working with a very successful advert director who is from here in south africa. I am also working with the steady cam operator for the movie Blood Diamond. He also was the camera operator for a Coke ad, doomsday, the upcoming free Willy 4 and a number of other bug budget productions. I will definitely be learning a lot working with these amazing talented people.

Staffing the video school is pretty chill. I grade their work sometimes and help out wherever needed.

The Photography school is going to be AMAZING! We are lining up some amazing speakers and topics such as Ad photography, Fashion photography, Landscape/Nature photography, Band photography, and Photo Journalism Just to name a few! It will be so rad but I will fill you in on this more as time goes on and we make more plans! 

And the graphic design work I do is pretty random and mainly stuff like dvd covers and what not for other projects they are currently working on here. 

Anyway there is a quick update for all you wondering people out there. And now for all you non-wondering people, I have a few more photos. These were taken Pre-Accident but luckily were still on my cameras memory card when the tragedy struck. Last weekend we went on a drive to my friend Marike’s (Muh-Ree-Kuh) house and spent the night so that we could go to a town called Franschhoek (sort of like Fron-shook) the next day. Franschhoek Is about an hour away and is in wine country. Far away from the Ocean but still very beautiful. There are tons of ritzy vineyards and what not.  Anyway here are a few of the photos. There’s probably more to come because we have a lot of fun photos of this little road trip.

We got there at night and drove up some mountain.

The drive

Marike stalled the car on this dirt road. We're actually moving backward in this photo.

Wine Land

Jumping over Franschhoek (Marike, Saskia, Shane, Me)

We had a picnic here. Then took about one million and a half photos.

Anyway that’s about all from last weekend. And I almost forgot. Here is a photos of the building I live and work in.

Sorry for taking so long between updates! I get crazy busy! I’ll leave you with this self explanatory photo. Bye!