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A little over five years ago a stranger in a coffee shop gave me my first ever DSLR camera. It was a ten-year-old Pentax sporting a whopping 6-megapixels, but I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. I poured myself into learning everything I possibly could about photography and I still do today.
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I dipped my toes in the food and product photography world six years ago when my husband, Corey and I founded a health food company called Food Actually. We made a wildly popular grain-free cereal called Norridge. I started taking photos of Norridge to share on our social platforms and fell completely in love with the creative process.
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I grew up in Cape Town, South Africa craving adventure. When I was 23, I hopped on a delivery of a 76ft catamaran sailing from Cape Town to the Caribbean where I worked for most of my twenties as a cook on superyachts. My passion and “fake it til you make it” attitude landed me in the organic grass-fed butter working for a Russian billionaire. That’s where I honed my food styling skills.
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A few years in I met my husband, Corey in a little town in the South of France called La Ciotat and fell in love hard and fast. We shared the world’s tiniest cabin on a boat together for a year ( seriously the basin pulled out over the shower), got engaged in a hot air balloon over a game reserve in South Africa after just five months of being together, were married on the beach in South Africa a year after that and moved to his hometown on the Gold Coast in Australia.
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We now live in the beautiful Northern Rivers right by the beach with our two little girls who keep us constantly on our toes and our hearts full. Though I’m not well and truly “settled down”, I get antsy staying in one place too long. In fact, I’m pretty sure I was a gypsy in a previous life because the word wanderlust makes me see sparkles and variety is the spice I like best.