The future belongs to Learners

If you are looking for answers!

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What is now, has not always been so. Time brings change.

Change is inevitable.

And perhaps at no other time in the history (or pre-history) of mankind has the process of change been as pronounced as it is now. That process is accelerating. It’s not slowing down.

Our parents were born into a world where a phone was a big old thing, fixed to a wall with a round dial and a single function. And their parents were familiar with the device.

Today we have smart phones with touch screens that’ll do just about anything, including accessing the Internet, a vast web of information, so intricate and so versatile, our parents have a difficult time imagining what exactly it is.

In fact, no one can be absolutely certain what it is. Or where its limits are.

If indeed this vast network has any limits at all…

What limits?

Consider the…

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Oct / Nov SURF YOGA PHOTO Tour 2013

It was a very special experience, being the photographer and the tour guide during this exciting Surf – Yoga – Photo Tour with Unravel Surf Travel. Check out my photoi report!

Discovering beauty: portrait session with Maria

Photographer: Jenya Zhivaleva

Model: Maria Griniveckaya

Buffels Bay, South Africa

October 2013

Maternity photograpahy: meet Rebecca

There is something very special and so beautiful about pregnant ladies! Meet Rebecca, my good friend! She is expecting to become mommy for the third time! My hat off!

We had so much fun during the photoshoot! From romantic to funky images!

I can’t wait to meet a beautiful girl who will be born anytime soon, may be as we speak!

Exciting times or photo competitions)

In the last month I was fortunate enough to enter and win two photo competitions !!! I must say it feels really good to be recognized by somebody with experience.

Super stoked to have won 3rd place in the Vibe Category of the photo competition at the Ross Taylor Surf Contest!

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We brought the kids from our Outreach program The Surfer Kids to the Ross Taylor Surf competition. The Ross Taylor Benefit Surf Contest is an annual event held in memory of local surfer Ross Taylor, who lost his life to cancer at the age of 29. All funds raised by this event is donated towards Hospice, which was Ross’s charity of choice after the care and support that they provided to him and his family in his last years.

Another exciting win was of the photo competition “Point of view”, organized by the new online newspaper Look4it Knysna and Eon Photography. Theme of the month was “Portrait of a woman”.

I was so excited to get the following message from the judges:

“Jenya captured the soft, nurturing, yet sensual side to a woman in this magnificent portrait. The soft lighting and careful composition, makes for a winning recipe within this theme.”

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