AV News 182 - November 2010
Red Rock
Adri van Oudheusden FPSSA
Red Rock used to be a
peaceful place, until one
day when Xau! decided that
he wanted to get married.
He set out to find himself a
bride. After a long time he
found her. Xau! adored her.
Nothing was too much, Xau!
did everything for her. The
wedding feast was one not
to be forgotten. Not long
after the wedding day,
however, the trouble began.
It started with a dress that she had to have . . . Suddenly all the women
wanted luxuries.
Today Red Rock isn't a peaceful place anymore. Everything changed.
Even the paintings on the wall . . .
Photography has been my passion since 1970. At
first my father introduced me to cinè. Then I
became more interested in slides. My husband
(also an amateur photographer) and I met at a
camera club in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng. We got
engaged in 1974 and married in 1976. After that
my husband was transferred by his work and we
joined Edenvale Camera Club on the East Rand.
The combined East Rand camera clubs
organised an International Congress and invited
Freeman Patterson, a Canadian photographer. He
changed our photography around. Never before
had we seen such beautiful work, so well presented in AV form. At the time this
was done on two or more projectors, and tape recorders. We were hooked.
We started photographing specifically for AV and produced a few
sequences. Our photography slowed down a bit when our daughter Linda was
born in 1982 and I became a stay-at-home mother. After 11 years my
husband was transferred again, this time to Port Elizabeth where we now live.
Our daughter finished her schooling in 2000 and decided that she would like
to study Public Relations. It was then that the idea dawned on me that I would
have a lot of free time and the opportunity to study Psychology, which was
something I had wanted to do when I was younger, but never had the
opportunity. And so, at age 47, I got accepted at the Nelson Mandela
University in Port Elizabeth as a full-time student. Together Linda and I
travelled to and from University for four years. We both got our degrees.
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