Smoke & Mirrors

So it's been a while since my last blog post and to be honest it's so difficult to find the time to keep updating this damn thing. Hopefully this post will start things off for 2011 albeit a month late.

Ronnel & Guy of R&G Events had some excellent photography taken by the talented Mr Bentley- [www.garethbentley.com]. R&G Events do all kinds of events with some super awesome hosted parties with DJ Guy on the turntables!

Guy was in the office the other day going through the images that Gareth took which were stunning!! I was asked if I may be interested in doing something fun with one of the photos, so I chose one which i thought i could work with and literally just went crazy. In the end it seems Guy loved the piece of work and i named it Smoke & Mirrors. Hope everybody likes it.

Mojo

Zambian Funnies

The Groove of Mojo

I was inspired today by something i saw and had to do this to put a groove back into my step. I enjoyed working on this thoroughly.. just for fun! Sometimes when inspiration hits you have to go with flow (Lidz).

Kestrel Air Rebrand

Kestrel Air Original Logo.

Brief: Create a new logo to reflect old school travel with a 5 star luxury appeal to cater for those who fly for Hunting Safaris and Walkabouts.

Target Market: Wealthy foreigners, enthusiastic about African Luxury Safaris.

Kestrel Air New Logo.

Concepts: The Kestrel: The "K"-  Wings, talons, grace, flight

Africa: Colours, texture, patterns, font

Air Travel: The "K" represents the rear upright wing of an aircraft and can be easily used as branding on the wing itself

Victoria Sunset

Sunset in Livingstone over the truly inspirational Victoria Falls. Mosi-O-Tunya (The Smoke That Thunders)

Mojo Candy

Candy from England sent by a cousin. More flavours to come.

Kariba Dam Pano

A group of us had decided to go to Kariba this past weekend and we were fortunate enough to witness the gates open. 3 out of the 6 were fully open. This pano is about 13 images stitched. The gates have been open for the past 6 weeks due to extremely high levels of water in the dam itself. Sufficed to say, we didnt catch any tiger.. 10 hours on the water, 4 tigers spit out lures, 4 wild African wasp stings, 2 emperor scorpions and spans of spiders on the island we tied off for braai lunch.. it was brilliant though.. and 2 large male hippos only 100 metres away. This Is Africa! TIA!!!

Hopper

escarGOt

Spiders on the Farm

Walking around today and the spiders are out in force all over the place. Some places, the webs are more stunning than the spiders themselves. Im still searching around here for more spiders and im sure ill find more. No spiders were harmed in the shooting of this collection.

Kackaging Cont.

Kackaging

Yes that's right.. Kackaging.. Kak Packaging, whether its the name, design or product that it's selling..

Imagine being the designers behind these beautiful pieces of work. What goes through your mind when you need concepts for Big Boy soap? How do you scamp for Fem Tight? Do you really need colour proofs for Virginity Soap? But the prize for me is the Ginger Nuts Balls.. what a name.. i evidently bought a cup of Ginger Nuts Balls and enjoyed them. Let's not read much into that. I must apologise for the terrible photography.. crappy phone camera. Otherwise, enjoy.

Corporate ID- Showpiece Homes

Corporate Identity for a friend. He specifically wanted black as the main colour, we ended up warming it up with some additional colours that would be used throughout the branding process. The logo however remained as a a shade of black on full black.

Personal Work

Mural of my trip to Mozambique. Tried showing the faces of the people there because they are the most friendliest people with big hearts and not so big pockets.

This building in Lusaka has been around for ages and was recently refurbished. It is the HQ for ZANACO Bank and there corporate colour is that red, the red piece on the building is actually there. It is part of there building branding.

Boredom. Design. Beauty.

MacroSunday

Light.

Braai times with the family. No power but light prevails.

Carrot Freak

Bags of carrots sitting in the veranda ready for drying to be put into achaar. This carrot caught my attention.

Farhaan a la mode

Creating a portrait for my cousin Farhaan. 95% photography, the rest is Photoshop.

Tom Thumbs

New Year's eve 2009.. preperations for fireworks. Tom Thumbs exploding! Do you remember Tom Thumbs?

Andrew the Chameleon

This was a totally on the spot find. Watering the garden I noticed this Chameleon (I named him Andrew) walking about on the palm frings.. ran inside to get my camera and started snapping away. One of my favorite photos.