Katie Wisdom

Katie Wisdom Photographer | Digital Creator
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👋🏻 hey friends! I've decided not to take on any more NEW family and NEW business shoots until 2027. I do find it hard to...
06/10/2026

👋🏻 hey friends! I've decided not to take on any more NEW family and NEW business shoots until 2027. I do find it hard to say no though so if you say please as cutely as my kids do and offer snacks, I'll probably cave. My existing business people, I'm still here for you. And families who have arranged shoots with me before this point in time, I will most certainly honour our happy shoot date.

Reason: So you may have heard me talk about this before, I've been moaning about this for years. Being a photographer in SA is a funny one because local buying power not only equates to equipment being more expensive here but the local going rate means we get much less income than is logical to support the expenses of a photography business. I've been aware of this for years but I have kept on because my camera still works beautifully and I need to see people otherwise I'll become a wierd old reclusive in the farmlands.

But lately I've been feeling that I need to take some time away from the shoots, as much as I love them, so I can figure out how to survive the future (thanks AI) and also some updated equipment because I really do LOVE serving my local community. I worry that my faithful camera, which is more than a decade old, will cope much longer. Hopefully I'll find some fun solutions. I've got enough ideas, but can I actually see them through? 🤣 Let's see.

27/08/2026

Spectaculaas! 👌🏻 I'm a big fan of Indezi River Creamery and this new flavour truly is spectacularrrrly delish 😋

Look at all these cool people I work with and all the fancy nominations they're getting! Massive high fives guys!BellaRo...
25/08/2026

Look at all these cool people I work with and all the fancy nominations they're getting! Massive high fives guys!

BellaRosa Flowers
Dixon and Son Meat Co
Cowan House
Sagewood Cafe

I had the privelege of photographing a book launch on Women's Day. As it says on the back of the book, In Over My Head i...
15/08/2026

I had the privelege of photographing a book launch on Women's Day. As it says on the back of the book, In Over My Head is a deeply personal story of love, loss, surrender, and the steady hope found in Jesus. 

Since Monday, and being a few pages into Rebecca Du Plessis's moving book, I have come to the conclusion that people who write books are a very particular type of human.

1. Very often, the reason there is a story to tell at all is because these people have gone through real hardship, the kind that completely strips you to your bones only to re-shape you into an extraordinary, humble, entirely relatable, and captivating human. 

2. They are brave. It takes great courage to be vulnerable. They bare their souls on the pages in the hope that they will bring insight, comfort and restoration, and a reassurance that we are not alone and that the story is not finished.

3. They are disciplined and intentional. This means sticking with the plan, the printing deadline or launch date while juggling the every day things like dinner and dishes, school drop offs and work deadlines. It means working in the quiet dark while the house sleeps. And means pushing away any potentially crippling moments of self doubt. Becks, how you managed to write a book while momming and working and doing all the other things in between is beyond me.

4. They see the world differently. It's a God given gift to be able to direct the imagination by stringing various combinations of words together. And by writing these words down they're inviting others to walk around in those conceptually constructed spaces, poetically moving minds and souls through different abstract spaces. That’s pretty wild if you think about it. 

Becks, I salute you. Look at the beauty you've wrought from ashes! A massive well done to you and thank you for your obedience and willingness to share your story and heart. It was humbling to see how your family and community rose to support you and it did wonderful things for my soul to laugh, cry, and feel moved again toward the heart of God on Monday. And thank you for choosing me to capture it.

These were some stand out moments for me. Big love ❤️

There is something that happens when you become a parent, particularly a mother, for the first time. You suddenly become...
31/07/2026

There is something that happens when you become a parent, particularly a mother, for the first time. You suddenly become a part of a club that you were never aware of before.

Suddenly you have so much in common with people you never thought you would. Having a baby seems to bring with it both incredible beauty and an unending list of puzzles and problems to solve and so all you want to do as a mom who is further down the road of motherhood is make a new mom's road that much easier.

And when a baby decides to arrive a bit early this adds a whole other level of relatability. So you can imagine my utter delight when Matt booked a family shoot with me.

I was just as excited to encourage and relate about my own journey as I was to capture this precious family in their beautiful home. It adds a whole other layer to how and what I capture. So its safe to say I absolutely loved getting these images ❤️

Thank you Wilkes family for trusting me to capture this happy time stamp ❤️ You guys are natural, incredible parents and I'm so proud of you! This was a real joy and privilege to capture ❤️

Highgate W**e Estate 👌🏻Highgate W**e, Restaurant & Wedding Venue
31/07/2026

Highgate W**e Estate 👌🏻
Highgate W**e, Restaurant & Wedding Venue

What a pleasure to capture little Maverick being earth side with his magnificent family. Many adventures ahead for the W...
31/07/2026

What a pleasure to capture little Maverick being earth side with his magnificent family. Many adventures ahead for the Wilkie-Page family ⛵️ Big love guys ❤️

We've come a long way Carlien Esterhuizen since our first baby group, you with your plump, sweet little Em and me with m...
02/07/2026

We've come a long way Carlien Esterhuizen since our first baby group, you with your plump, sweet little Em and me with my teeny preemy Elijah, swapping war stories of motherhood with wide eyes while we survived on coffee and biscuits, praying our kid wasn't the one to be the screaming unruly baby while we tried desperately to listen to the speaker so we could de-mystify science of infants. Love our odd car park chats and love that I get to be the one to capture you guys at this moment in time. This is triumph, right here, this moment 💪🏻 Thank you Lord for the incredible miracles and grace we've seen in your family recently! These photos give me nothing but immense JOY!!!! Big love xx

It was never going to be an ordinary family photo shoot if had anything to do with it. Somewhere in the middle of Valle...
04/06/2026

It was never going to be an ordinary family photo shoot if had anything to do with it. Somewhere in the middle of Valley of a Thousand Hills with crays from the wild coast on a rock braai. Sounds just like the Josephsons right? My boys had a ball. Always an adventure with these gems. ❤️ Such a treat finally meeting little Ava Rose ❤️ Big love guys! (Them crays were damn delish!)

A quick story about how God cares about the details:I did a shoot last week Thursday. I must have carelessly thrown this...
27/05/2026

A quick story about how God cares about the details:
I did a shoot last week Thursday. I must have carelessly thrown this tripod in the back of the bakkie as it was a day when the double cab was full the brim. Then I forgot about it. Fast forward to today, when I need it, and its nowhere to be found. Panic 😭 I figure out when I last used it and realized it must have been taken out the back of the bakkie. The brain spirals and panics about how I will fix this problem. Lost in my worry as I drop the boys off at school, the head mistress, marvelous Suzie, sees my face. My face normally has clear subtitles. As I tell her the story she remembers a picture in a group about a tripod found in a bush 😭 GUYS. It's my tripod! What are the odds?! So now we are reunited! And I'm in tears because I'm reminded that God cares so much about the things we care about. I gave this business to God in 2023 because I realized that if this was part of my purpose on earth that it was too much for me to bear on my own and thatbi needed supernatural help. Anyone who is in the photography or videography world KNOWS the expenses are nuts. So when a piece of equipment goes missing or breaks you must know how frustrating it is. I'm no preacher but here's what I know personally - the bow to tie this post up - If you give your business (hey actually, your life if we're getting real deep about this) to Jesus, you will have more coincidences and stories than ever and you will feel so purposeful. Any other way is too hard.

*this picture was taken by the people who found it. Thank you for your kindness!

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