Category Archives: Update

Happy 2011!

I am SO excited about the photographic possibilities of 2011! I did so many wonderful photo shoots with amazing people in 2010, and I think 2011 is going to be even brighter. Here’s to a new year and lots of new photo opportunities!

About the above photo collage…

On New Year’s Day, I was at my sister’s house and I decided I wanted to introduce my niece to the idea of painting with light in photos. So these photos in this collage are some of the experiments we did that day. My niece did the star and individual letters for “Happy,” and I put them together as one word in post-processing. My sister wrote the word “Year” and I did “New” – my niece triggered the shutter in bulb for me and held the shutter down until I finished the word.

My sister told me that Anna Marie was trying to get my sister to let her paint with light using a camera phone the next day. That made me smile, even if my sister had to explain that a phone’s camera’s shutter wouldn’t stay open long enough…

Andrew Bryant (& Friends) at the Hi-Tone

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.)

Snow Day


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

Not a blog, just an update

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!