May 14th, 2013
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I hope this is not too unprofessional but I would just like to say how unbelievably excited both Adrian and I are to be involved in this first edition of Flat White. Our journey with Christine and Warren started back in 2009 when I used to write for her earlier coffee magazine all those years ago. Our love of coffee and our symbiotic creative relationship has led us to cross paths again and I could not be happier about it. So enjoy our column as often as we are able to be honored with your eyeballs reading the section!
Another love we share with this fabulous couple is a love for Cape Town. This love affair for Adrian and I began in December of last year. We saved up, booked and drove down to Cape Town from Durban for a little annual holiday. Adrian is a Photographer and I am both his wife and his kind of untitled creative sidekick if you will. We dive into adventures of travel and photo making as often as work allows us and this time it led us to fall in love with Cape Town.
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April 19th, 2013
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Sometimes you get the gift of finding friends in your wedding couples. Sometimes its a match made in heaven ;) so we would like to thank Debbie from Etc Events for being the catalyst in this situation. Our journey with who we then called “Candice & Mark” started in about July 2011 when they booked us for their wedding, there were nuances of it being a “different wedding” - now sometimes you do not take that too seriously because almost everyone feels that their wedding is unique in their own way, which they are. BUT not like this.
So I give you Mr & Mrs Pants as we now affectionately call them.
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October 23rd, 2012
— Adrian Shields
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This awesome foodie wedding took place in chilly June in the Kamberg. Cleopatra Mountain Farm House is owned by Richard & Mouse Poynton who were the original owners of the Midlands guest house Granny Mouse.
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October 19th, 2012
— Adrian Shields
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I chose to come home for my wedding: “Both Troy and I were born in SA and spent our childhoods family holidays experiencing the beauty of SA through wildlife. Although we live in London now SA will always be our home and you just cant shake that love for raw African nature and that’s why we both knew this was a memory that had to be create there.”
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August 3rd, 2012
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You find the most amazing treasures in little Durban North roads, like for instance the Café-Scrapbooking shop with some serious carrot cake. This was the settling for Francie & Gareth’s e-sesh this winter. Their wedding will be in Autumn next year, again presented in a very english-vintage feel.
Thanks for this lovely setting at (Le Maison)[https://www.facebook.com/ReminisceScrapbooking] and we look forward to your wedding!
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July 23rd, 2012
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We met Claudia & Darren for the first time today at Darren’s beach flat, soon to be their home after their wedding in October. Its so beautiful how when people decide to have photos in a place where they feel most at home, their personalities shine. We loved shooting this surfer couple and we cannot wait to shoot the wedding in October.
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April 24th, 2012
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Recently browsing my mini feeds I receive awesome notifications from local and overseas blogs showcasing Photographers who have successfully captured DIY and budget weddings. But when it comes to some South African DIY/Budget Weddings there is a trend of using “the budding photographer”. Now before I get slammed for abusing the new-be photographer, I understand that everyone starts somewhere but also know a second thing. The top Photographers in our industry are fully booked and cannot want for more work so this is not about anyone “stealing work” or anything like that.
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April 12th, 2012
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Back on January 1, 2012 Adrian and Jaimi embarked on a 366 day commitment. What we didn’t know is that one photo a day, IS NOT, as easy as it sounds. Cos sometimes you’re just not that into it. But after all it does push your creative button once a day and it has been super fun so far!!
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April 12th, 2012
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Since last year Jaimi and I have been toying with the idea of a huge family portrait of us and the guys (and the cats) for the house. A while back we saw some graphic work by Nic Lewis at a colleagues house. After a few failed attempts at getting a hold of the artist we eventually caught up with him at two weddings last year. At the most recent one Jaimi and I decided we needed to swop skills with the Lewis’.
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April 12th, 2012
— Adrian Shields
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In the years to come Adrian will be launching a book capturing some of his work over the years. This will showcase both this design, film and photographic work. In what will hopefully be a DVD Book package. This coffee table book will cover Adrian’s model projects, his design work, band photography and marketing over the last couple of years.
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April 9th, 2012
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Lara & Tven Heyer were married at Firgrove Chapel in Alverstone back in December 2011. Their reception was held in Kloof at Bellevue Café with food by Chris Black and décor by Talloula Weddings. The photos were all done in the office block surrounding the venue.
Supporting Cast:
Shoes by: Ted Baker, London
Garter by: Florrie Mitton and I made my own tossing garter
Dress by: Dale McCarthy & Esther Talbot
Jewelry by: All vintage pieces my Nan owned
Tven suit by: ‘Custom made suit ‘Tokyo Jo’ with Fabric by Italian Vitale Barberis
Tven shoes by: Rockport – Tven’s brand
Puddings by: So whipped
Make up: Jacqui Geel
Bridesmaids dresses: River Island & Debenhams
Bridesmaids shoes: Carvela for Maid of Honour, and Dune
Bridesmaids & Brides hair pieces: Miranda @ Rosabella
Veil: Made myself
Guys buttonholes & Wedding Décor: Glynnis from Talloula
March 26th, 2012
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Our road to Clarens Hipstamatics are being posted here and we are are willing to part with mounted prints of of these images as limited editions.
Please email me for pricing. I am very excited about this project as well as our Hipstamatic 366 being posted on my facebook page.
January 24th, 2012
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So we have just hit week 3 in our Hipstamatic 366 and it is crazy how time flies when you are busy. Thankfully week 3 ended in a free weekend, so we held an awesome 2 year anniversary party!
THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE HIPSTAMATIC WEEK:
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January 16th, 2012
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Saturdays Hipstamatic is of the props Tina brought along for the shoot alongside our vintage camera that comes with us to most weddings nowadays :)
Congrats to Tina & Lyle, we have included some of their beautiful snaps below. I think Adrian did a superb job!
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January 11th, 2012
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This bouquet was made from all odds and ends that my Aunt Michelle collected from Mr Price “un-sellables” from her stores she manages. From these items no one else loves we made an item that one cannot NOT love :).
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January 11th, 2012
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On our anniversary we feel very honoured to have such amazing people in our life, those who look after us, spend hours of their time with us and who always make an effort. Thank you.
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January 8th, 2012
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So after shooting a fireman’s wedding this weekend and have a super cool fireman friend Dave Leppan of Pinetown Firehouse we decided that today’s Hipstamatic would be “the jaws of life”. We would like to thank the fireman on duty at Gillits Firestation today for allowing us into their firehouse to take these snaps. Thank you for being welcoming and even having a little chat with us! - You guys so need a double story though :).
You gotta wonder how many lives this piece of machinery has saved?
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January 8th, 2012
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So thinking about the Hipstamatic and wondering what kind of story I could write about cricket without confusing the facts of the game, mis-quoating great moments and being under the factual scrutiny of three cricket-experts I decided to google search “top ten cricket blogs” - oh my word - there are a lot of intensley passionate cricket dudes and ladies out there.
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January 2nd, 2012
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So it has begun, as from Jan 1,2012 Adrian and I will be taking one Hipstamatic photograph a day on either one of our iPhones. What the heck is Hipstamatic? Well its this super cool app for smartphones - you can download it via your mobiles app store and it allows you to take super cool rendered images from your iPhone. Your snapping shall never be the same again!
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December 5th, 2011
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Recently a local Photographer blogged the good, bad and ugly of wedding photography and outlined the job at hand of being the one who captures someone’s special day Photographically. So this gave me an idea for an article about how to justify what you are spending on your special snaps.
After the countless hours you have spent trying on dresses, choosing stationery, trying menu’s and sampling cakes and booking your venue you will be left with one of the most important items on a wedding to do list - your Photographer. This is both a tricky and time consuming task for some because there is the delicate balance of cost vs quality and what you can actually spend. So how can you justify what you spend on your Photographer for your wedding. Well let me walk you through a little bit of what goes into your special day.
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November 14th, 2011
— Adrian Shields
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So my Jaimi and I went on a little weekend get away back in October before our mad rush holiday season and I am super glad I took my fifty with. We had such a ball.
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September 14th, 2011
— Adrian Shields
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Glamour Boutique is a local owned boutique in the Delcairn Centre in Kloof, Kwa Zulu Natal. Terri-Lyn is the owner and buyer for the boutique. Terri chose us to shoot her latest range in store by the end of September 2011.
Join her Facebook Page to keep updated: http://www.facebook.com/glamourkloof
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September 13th, 2011
— Adrian Shields
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Two chefs and a big great mess!
More pictures to follow this week…
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September 10th, 2011
— Adrian Shields
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My Jaimi and I travelled up to the Southern Drakensburg last month to go see the snow! My lady had never seen snow before so we dropped everything and cleared our schedules for an afternoon of fun! We packed a small overnight back just in case and stuffed our gumboots in the car along with cameras and the handycam.
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August 26th, 2011
— Adrian Shields
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Last week Jaimi and I did a portrait shoot nearby to where we live with the awesome Debbie Ivins. On that same shoot I could not help but Photograph the stunning landscape and how the sunbursts through the overcast weather was so picturesque - almost foreign.
I would now like to make these available as prints or image files at different prices. If you would like to contact me regarding this please email me.
The rest of this shoot is on Facebook.
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August 24th, 2011
— Adrian Shields
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On June 16 a mate of mine from back in the day Dale married his princess Tash at Calderwood Hall in Boston (Kzn Midlands). They had a beautiful small chapel service and an awesome blue sky Photoshoot. They partied late and the next morning at breakfast they were up with everyone greeting a new Sunday as a married couple.
Then last Friday we missioned up the North Coast toward Tongaat to play with paint balloons and water pistols. This was a bunch of full grown adults going crazy like 5 year olds. Tash mixed and filled all the balloons herself and bought her water guns from a local toy store.
After the wedding, Tash’s dress was filthy from dancing and letting of lanterns on the wet grass so then it actually became Tash’s Moms idea that instead of just doing a normal trash the dress shoot that she rather just go the whole nine yards. No one can lie and say dress designer was super chuffed with the idea but Tash decided that her heart was set on this and so we did.
We started the shoot up at the ruins in Tongaat which makes an awesome colourful backdrop to this kind of shoot. After firing water-paint balloons at one another Tash and Dale posed for some sunny backlit shots with their pistols and before long Tash and Dale were having their own little water war! Super epic!
We then all went down to the sea to rinse off and have the main war of the day. Girls vs Boys with water-pistols charged with water and ready for battle. It got to the point where everyone was re-loading with sea water. Tank GOODNESS for plastic toys ;)
Once we were done with the shoot and everyone was completely drenched, everybody headed to the local beach-pub Beach Bums and had one as the sun set. Pretty epic Friday for sure.
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August 17th, 2011
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Since last winter Jaimi and I have been planning on launching her RagandBone concept and now we have. As of this past weekend (13-14 August 2011) RagandBone has been officially been launched as a concept. My lady asked me to capture the behind the scenes and take some portrait shots for her!
We are very proud to launch and showcase RagandBone on Adrian Shields Photography.
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