About

Ross AllchornA Passion For The Internet & Photography

My name is Ross Allchorn. Born in Durban and now residing in Cape Town, South Africa. I spend most of my time either taking photos, consulting with my clients or working on one of my client’s or my own websites.

My main websites are:

In my career, I’ve been fortunate enough to have worked for some very large and exciting brands, lots of interesting companies and learnt a lot about all sorts of different industries. From photographing marble and granite in a factory to travelling all over the Cape shooting the latest BMW M3, then working on viral mailer systems for The Famous Grouse and Southern Comfort, it’s been an exciting ride so far.

Website Design & Development Experience

I started designing websites in 1999 after completing the web toolbox course at Netscope. I realised very soon how little you learn in a course like that and I’d say 98% of my skills and knowledge have been obtained after leaving college.

Initially concentrating on the aesthetics of website design, I soon realised that it is actually only one of the many parts of the process.

After some sizeable commissions, I moved into the design of of content managed websites using open source and custom written systems alongside various skilled programmers.

I now specialise in the design and development of small and medium sized websites done right. I prefer to do a project from start to finish with either a small team of professionals or just by myself, than deal with indecisive committees and masses of people vying for credit.

Photography Experience

I’ve been capturing images on and off from a young age. Starting with and old 35mm inherited from my grandfather, I progressed to digital with an ill informed purchase of a 1.3 megapixel point and click that I still have (I have all my old cameras).

Cutting through what I’ve had, I now shoot with a Canon 30D DSLR. I have an assortment of lenses to suit most requirements.

We now specialise in the following:

  • function photography
  • wedding photography
  • sport photography
  • food photography

We’ve done Ocean Basket’s promotional food pictures since 2003, we’ve done pictures for Newscafe, Lemon Butta and Dulce Cafe. We’ve shot for BMW, GM, Mercedes, Porsche and we regularly shoot the regional and national superbikes and super series at Killarney in Cape Town.

Go on over to From the Camera to check our rates.