Well hooray!
I went to see Andrew Bryant's band play Wednesday night at The Hi-Tone. I had such a great time watching them and am quite pleased with the photographic results of the night.
Andrew Bryant & Friends. Febuary 24, 2010 @ The Hi-Tone. Mem[phis, TN.
(a few shots of the band Giant Bear that played at the beginning of the night are also in the mix.)
View from my Window • 1/30/2010 • Polaroid 250
It snowed in Memphis yesterday.
Crazy. I know.
I had a "snow day" from my job. Not wanting to be completely unproductive, I used my time stuck indoors to do some Shoot With Personality upkeep! It's occurred to me that there's a huge gap in the work I've produced, and the amount of work that can be seen on this site. There are photos that I meant to blog about at the time they were taken, but never got round to thus never showcased here. Or photos of bands from my hardcore/punk photography days that haven't been around since the old version of Shoot With Personality. So some things from recent times and from times past are now going to be shown in SWP galleries.
• 13 or so new banners in rotation for the "randomized" photo banner at the top of the SWP homepage! (I forgot how fun these are to make, so I'll be doing more ASAP!)
• Galleries updated: food photography, people, [live] band photography, art photography [and everything else], Polaroids (and other instant film photography)
• New gallery added: photos of musicians
Photos I meant to post here but forgot about for approx. the last month?
Yes.
Yielded from a day at Food Not Bombs in November.
The bike of my dreams...
Perhaps the most Amanda-appropriate apron there ever was.
You can find galleries for the following two shows if you click the following links:
Adam and Dave's Bloodline. Gasoline Heart. Andrew Bryant @ The Hi-Tone. October 22, 2009.
First World @ The Smith7 House. October 24, 2009.
There are some new blogs in the works though. I promise. I sorta have internet at my apartment now, thanks to some unsecured wi-fi network in a nearby home. Wee!
If you were to say to me, "Hey Amanda. Who's your favorite band?", I'd have a few answers for that question (I'm not good at having only one favorite. It's a blessing and a curse.) My answer would go something like this, "Hey. Good question. My favorite band's The Beatles. And mewithoutYou. And anything David Bazan does. In no particular order." I have already gushed about getting to see mewithoutYou (The Weiss Family) again back in August. And here we are, not even two months later, and I've just been able to see David Bazan. This made me so stinking happy. So, so happy.
Bazan could've played anything from any album and I'd have been stoked, because I don't know if there's a song on any of his records that I DON'T like. But I was pleased with the mixture of songs he did. A lot of the new album. Some from the EP. And some from his work with Pedro the Lion. I was quite pleased.
It's nice when something you've so looked forward to meets and even exceeds your expectations. Thank you, Mr. Bazan.
(Pssssst. More photos from this show are HERE)
You like my awesome pun I made in the blog title? I woke up yesterday to find that there was no cereal or other breakfast-appropriate food in my apartment. Rather than despair over this fact, I decided that when life hands you nothing for breakfast, you should make biscuits.
I have a dizzying array of photos and blogs that I am working on for Shoot With Personality. Tales of mystery and intrigue and magnicent adventures in the world of photography. Not really. I did attend Cooper-Young Fest recently and did some street-style photography, did a photo shoot for a musician I know, and I also acquired a "new to me" Polaroid-style instant camera, so blogs about those things (and more) are in the works.
Hiya.
I added some new photos to the Shoot With Personality Galleries this week.
* weddings
Don't forget to check out the Weiss Family photos from their show in Memphis last week if you haven't done so already.
And because I don't like the way blog entries look if they don't have a photo somewhere in them, here is a picture of my niece. Dressed as an American Indian during a trip we made to Jerry's Sno Cones last month.
(Yashica D TLR * cross-processed, 10 year old Fuji Velvia film)
Cheerio! I have been baking again recently, so expect some titillating food photography to be posted here soon.
Look how bad at keeping this photographic blog I have been! Working 40 hours a week in a photography job that doesn't yield photos I can post here has NOT be conducive to being a good blogger. I have some ideas on keeping this thing funky fresh though. Keep your eyes peeled.
The only thing I have to offer you right now is a gallery of photos I took at a show this past week. It was the Weiss Family (mewithoutYou-ish) at The Hi-Tone here in Memphis. The Psalters and Damien Jurado also played this gig, but, I was unfortunately tied up photographing rising high school seniors, and missed everyone but the Weiss Family. Seeing this band play and getting that sense of community that often accompanies mewithoutYou shows infused enough joy and happiness into my soul to keep me smiling for days.
The Weiss Family (mewithoutYou). August 20, 2009 @ The Hi-Tone. Memphis, TN. 
I haven't really talked about my band photography on this blog as of yet. I have been doing it for 9 years (wowzers) but have shifted my focus to other photographic ventures as of late. If you see me out taking photos at a show these days, it is an indication that bands or people there mean something to me. You better BELIEVE that is why I photographed this Weiss Family show.
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Hey, I've got another blog or two or three in the works, but I wanted to let people know that I've recently updated some of the galleries. For example:
Art Photography! (I need a better name for this gallery)
Some of these photos will be featured in future blogs, so all you curious people out there will know more about the circumstances under which they were taken! (You ARE curious about that, right???)