..WHY UM-SHA-TU ???

  • AWARD winning wedding photography. (5 Fujifilm Professional Awards in 2004 & 2005)
  • We are QUALIFIED, professional photographers, specializing in wedding photography, with local and international experience.
  • When we are behind the lens we want to achieve QUALITY photos with a distinctive ARTISTIC touch.
  • Good photos can only come from the right interaction between the photographer and the couple and with UM-SHA-TU you are guaranteed a fun-filled, professional shoot.
  • It is most important for us that you are comfortable and relaxed in front of the camera to get that NATURAL look.
  • Your photo shoot will be the HIGHLIGHT of your wedding day.
  • Nominated as the OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS of the "Wedding Essentials" magazine.
   
 

TESTIMONIALS

Liewe Joe en Jonelle

Ons wil net graag weereens dankie sê vir PRAGTIGE foto’s! Ons kan nie ophou kyk na die foto’s nie. Ons kry ongelooflik baie komplimente, nie net oor die foto’s nie maar ook van die mense wat op die troue was oor hoe julle jul self handhaaf. Dit was regtig vir ons ‘n groot voorreg om julle as ons fotograwe te hê.

Dankie dat julle te alle tye professioneel gebly het en dat julle eindproduk daarvan getuig. Te midde van al die storms het julle gedoen wat julle gekom het om te doen en dit was om ons mooiste dag op papier vas te lê. Dankie dat julle al julle beloftes nagekom het en ons nooit ‘n wortel voor die neus geswaai het nie. Elke herinnering is vars in ons geheue en dit word elke keer lewendig as ons na ons foto’s kyk. Julle is voorwaar BAIE professioneel en lyk ons foto’s soos die wat mens net in die tydskrifte admire het.

Dis lekker om hierdie foto’s rond te wys. En glo my ek gaan dit nog lank wys. Ek kan nie ophou staar na die foto’s nie en kan skaars glo dat dit ons is op die foto’s. Jou fotos is net so goed soos jou fotograwe………………. en dit beteken julle is UITSTEKEND.

Ons waadeer dit opreg en sal julle met die grootste liefde en vrymoedigheid aan ALLE mense aanbeveel…………………. maar dan aan die anderkant hoef hulle net na die foto’s te kyk en geen oortuiging is nodig nie.

BAIE, BAIE, BAIE, BAIE DANKIE!!!!

Groete
Peet en Cheryldéne Potgieter

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Hi Joe & Jonelle

Ek en Andries wou net weereens baie dankie sê vir ons asemrowende foto’s. Die album is regtig stunning. Ons waardeer julle tyd en moeite wat julle ingesit het.

Dankie vir alles!!!! Julle het hierdie spesiale dag vir ons verewig en almal is mal oor die foto’s. Ons sal julle regtig aan enige iemand aanbeveel.

Ons kan nie genoeg dankie se nie!!!!

Groete
Andries en Nadia

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Joe & Jonelle

Thanks to you guys I am an over night celebrity. I brought my photos to work to show some of my friends here. This album has been all over even to different departments. I can no longer walk down the passages, without someone stopping me to tell me how stunning my photographs are. The most they say is that it looks like something out of a magazine, or they look like postcards. Everybody just loves your artistic approach. They say you keep it plain and simple, yet you capture the moment so perfectly. They also love the way how you don’t take such boring pictures. All say they have never seen such beautiful photographs in their lives.

What I noticed is that everybody of all ages liked the photographs, so it’s not like only a certain age group or certain type of people would like it.

So from the feedback I got from everybody here at work I can sum it up as they are artistic, not boring and yet timeless.

Regards
Sean & Suzanne

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Dear Joe & Jonelle

We cannot thank you enough for everything that you have done for us. Our album is amazing (a piece of art) and we cannot tell you how impressed we are with your service!!

We did months of research to find the best photographers to capture our wedding day and indeed we found the best. In our opinion you offer the best value for money - we have received so much more than we ever expected!! Money cannot buy what you have given us:

You were enthusiastic about our wedding from the start,
you were always on time, reliable and eager to help,
you were flexible enough to adapt to our unique requirements,
you delivered on all your promises,
you were the last to leave our wedding reception,
you impressed everybody with your professionalism,
our album was ready even before we returned from honeymoon – the list goes on and on…….

You are dedicated to your work and set extremely high standards for yourselves and it shows!!!! You are absolute masters in your field!!!!!

Um-Sha-Tu is the best and we refuse to use anybody else.

We confidently recommend Um-Sha-Tu to everybody!!!!!

Regards
Deon & Lize

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Dear Joe & Jonelle

I've actually rewritten this "thank you" note a thousand times. It just never manages to reflect our feelings of joy that is generated every time we look at our wedding photographs, and I don't think that this time I've accomplished that either. I wish we had a photograph to capture the compliments that our friends and family generously dish out of the remarkable quality of our wedding photographs.

The fact that you provide an end-to-end solution, i.e. taking the photographs and also creating a BEAUTIFULLY striking album has taken all the stress away from this department of our wedding. All the married couples that we have shown our album to, jealously commented that their photographs are still lying in a heap stashed in a box somewhere at home, and they haven't had the time to stick it in an album yet.... so THANKS AGAIN!

Also, you are the only photographers that I know of that have given us the negatives the same day we collected our album, and did not try and make more money out of us as is sadly the case with your peers.

We just had one problem with your service: After seeing our album and our wedding photographs, EVERY unmarried couple, single family member, single friend, etc has asked us for your numbers and decided that they will definitely use you for their wedding pics.
Our problem is this: WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE ANYBODY LEFT TO SHOW OFF OUR PHOTOS TO AND NOTHING LEFT TO BRAG WITH!!!

PS: Huge thank you for not taking as long as the photographers at the other weddings I've been to. Because you were two people taking different shots of the same scene, you managed to take even more than twice as many shots as a normal photographer would, and we were back before our guests expected us, instead of the hours that we waited for the couple at the last wedding I've been to!

My wife has been selected as one of the finalists of one of the Bride of the Year competition.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!....
Jaco and Chrisna Veldsman

Oh yes, something my wife mentioned, you managed to make camera shy people feel so comfortable and relaxed!!!

The pre-wedding shoot was the best idea ever!! It made us more relaxed and made us look more natural on the important day!!

THANKS x 1 000 000!!!!!

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Dear Joe and Jonelle

Back in London and the African dust is just starting to settle after what have been a hetic couple of months.
The best thing of coming back was to show all our South African and Brittish friends - who couldn't make it to the wedding - our photos. You won't believe the remarks we get, and just to show a little bit of our appreciation we would like to pass on to you a few of the compliments we got and still get.
Mainly our South African friends agree that this is the best wedding photos they have seen mainly because it is so different and unique to what everybody else is used to. Our Brittish friends and work collegues were literally gobsmacked when they saw the photo album.
They kept remarking on the fact that everybody looked so relaxed an unposed on all the photos, and one collegue with a keen eye for photography commented on your artistic portrayel of the venue, decorations and the family photos.
We would too want to thank you over and over again for the most perfect wedding album. I just wish you could come to England and show these people how a wedding photo should look like.
We both wish you all the success your business deserve. And it is nice keeping in touch with you two.

Best wishes
Stefan and Be
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Hi Joe en Jonelle

Dankie vir die tyd wat julle gisteraand met ons spandeer het.
Ons het finaal besluit om van Um-Sha-Tu gebruik te maak vir ons troufoto's en is baie opgewonde daaroor!!!!!!! :-)
Dit is so 'n belangrike aspek van die dag en daarom het ek my huiswerk baie deeglik gedoen. Ek het altesaam na 12 fotograwe toe gery en almal ontmoet, maar julle het my van die begin af ongelooflik "impress"!!! Niemand kon werklik met julle kompiteer nie! Dit was net nodig om Deon ook daarvan te oortuig en na gisteraand stem hy saam met my.
Ek sal graag wil reelings tref om die 5de Maart met julle vas te maak. Ek sien op julle dokumentasie dat ons die deposito in paaiemente kan betaal. Ek sal beslis daarvan gebruik moet maak.

Groete en lekker dag vir julle!!!
Lize

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Dear Joe & Jonelle

After having spent DAYS on the Internet going through hundreds of portfolios and thousands of wedding photographs, the photos in the Um-Sha-Tu portfolio were literally the first and only ones my fiancé and I saw which in capsulate absolutely everything that we in visage our wedding photographs to be. We absolutely love the elegant, tasteful, natural and wonderfully artistic character of your photos and being artists ourselves (we are both classical musicians), your style of photography has struck a cord with us in a big way!! We want the emotion of the day captured - which you do superbly - rather than to have an album full of silly and unnatural poses; something we saw in so many portfolios!

We would very much like your team to be our wedding photographers and would like to know whether you are available on Friday, the 21st of July 2006. It will be an afternoon/evening wedding at Toadbury Hall.

Look forward to hearing from you in anticipation!

Kind Regards
Dorette du Toit and Philip Nolte

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Dear Joe & Jonelle

We would like to thank you for contributing in making our wedding so special.
Your professionalism was evident from our first meeting before our wedding up to the day we received our wedding album.
You’ve captured beautiful moments without invading our privacy!
We really do like your creativity and especially your abstract pictures.
We would recommend you to anyone who would like outstanding service.

Thank you
Paul & Jaqueline

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Dear Um-Sha-Tu

We would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the beautiful photos that you took at our wedding on the 16th of October 2004. You have managed to capture our special day so eloquently that our memories could do nothing but last for ever! Although we expected a lot, we were pleasantly surprised at how beautiful our photos came out.

The professional service that you rendered was noticed and commented on by many of our guests. We received so many compliments, not only on the quality but also on the variety and way it was captured. Although you managed to capture every moment your presence were hardly noticed and never distracted during the service. This is exactly what we wanted and got.

We would also like to thank you for putting together our album and having it ready by the time we returned from our honeymoon. It was such a pleasure to be able to show off our beautiful photo album so short after the wedding – no nightmares or fights over what should go where. Although I was sceptical about having my photos put in my album for me, I am so glad that quite a few wiser, long married friends convinced me to have it done as part of our package. If not, it will probably still be laying around for another five years to come.

Some comments that we would like to make are as follows:

  • Thanks for the “casual shoot”. I used it as a trial for my make-up and could guide my make-up artist accordingly to look perfect on the big day..!
  • Please keep up the web-site. Your web-site looks great, works well and is such an effective way of marketing. (This is were we found you in the first place).

Joe and Jonelle, once again, thanks for a job well done. You will definitely be recommended to everybody we know. Keep up the good work…!

Warm regards
Kallie en Annelie Joubert

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Dear Joe & Jonelle

We could give a big song-and-dance, but the bottom line is that we are very impressed and satisfied with our wedding album and photo’s.

Um-sha-tu handled our whole photo session in a professional and fun way. We were relaxed and could enjoy every moment (and photo) of our Big Day.

We can highly recommend Um-Sha-tu to cover you’re special day, you will not be disappointed.

Sincerely.
Barnette & Charlene Joubert

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Dear Joe & Jonelle

We would like to thank you for taking our wedding photos on 28 August ’04.

The photos brings back memories of that day each time we look at them. They are really beautiful with a touch of class and something out of the ordinary. We are so
pleased that we have chosen you instead of the other 3 photographers that we were
considering.

You were always professional and had excellent advice at all times. The quality of your work is exceptional.

All the best with your business in the future and you can be assure that we
will recommend you to anyone that might ask us.

Best wishes and Regards
Gary & Jackie Robinson

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Dear Joe & Jonelle

Thank you, thank you, thank you – our album and photographs are incredible with many of our family and friends saying that they are the best collection that they have seen. You truly caught the spirit of our wedding day by capturing such intricate details in your photographs.

It was fantastic working with you both; we really appreciated you sharing your passion for photography, your innovative ideas, your endless energy and professionalism with us on our special day.

Many thanks for producing such a quality album on a fairly tight time line; it was wonderful to be able to fly home with our treasured photographs.

Joe and Jonelle, our wedding album is priceless – thank you.

Kind regards
Belinda & Conrad

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Dear Joe & Jonelle

We just want to say thank you so much for our beautiful photos, everyone loves them. You made our day extra special and we have lovely memories to last us a life time. Thank you for your fun friendly manner in which you planned the day! You were great!!!!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Tiaan & Belinda Huyser

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Dear Joe and Jonelle

We would like to say a very big thank you for the awesome job you did in capturing our wedding memories! You did not spare any detail… something that we are so grateful for. Its so easy to forget the little things that contributed to making our day special! I have gotton used to people commenting that they have never seen such a beautiful wedding album before! We have to agree with them. You guys were awesome! Every photo is beautiful and full of character! Thank you for making us feel so comfortable and for making our wedding memories last forever!!!

Johan and Annelize

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