families: a & b, future models

On Sunday I spent a couple of hours with my coworker J’s sassy 15 year old daughters — twins, ballers, artists. They were awesome; teenage girls are awesome. I loved shooting these portraits.

families: b & n

I took these shots of my great coworker B. and her adorable 5 year old son N. on Monday; we had a blast.

concert: j roddy walston & the business @ kings

J. Roddy Walston & the Business came out last night and proceeded to absolutely tear down the walls at Kings. The new album burns up live, and the old songs are so sing-along shout-along friendly that a crowd can’t help but pump their fists and jump up and down and possibly hug strangers. I like…

photos: then and now (blitzen trapper and langhorne slim)

I was emailing with Adam last week — as I often am — and I realized, after pulling that 2009 photo of Hayes Carll for comparison to this year’s photo of Hayes Carll, that all of last week’s shows were bands that I shot very early on in my concert photography career. And, for the…

concert: blitzen trapper @ haw river ballroom

I wrote about this one for Speakers In Code. Phox, a super charming 6-piece indie pop group from Madison, Wisconsin, opened; their music is great, and they were all lovely. They’re about to start work on their new record, and I have to tell you that I’m pretty damn psyched about it. They were great….

review: 24″ photo cube studio light tent

I don’t do a ton of product photography — unless you count posing Lego baseball men with things from my origami page-a-day calendar as product photography, but it’s really not — but when the LA Shop offered to send me one of their photography toys to try out, I jumped at the chance to play…

other people’s projects: project neon

I like to keep track of cool photography projects out there, and it is turning out that a lot of the projects I like best are projects that are, at their centers, cataloging things that the photographers love. (I remain, all these years out of library school, a cataloger at heart.) One of these projects…

search strings revisited, summer 2013 edition

I haven’t done a search string post in a while! So let’s do that. My top five searches in the last 90 days have all been about north carolina minor league baseball teams (that’s the top one). I have a list here. Kinston no longer has a team. The Mudcats adopted Kinston’s High-A Indians franchise;…

so now i’m changing all the changes

So basically last week, I had complete out of body mental breakdown whatever and I decided to buy plane tickets to Chicago in September, the weekend between Hopscotch and Bristol, so I could shoot Riot Fest. Because I figure that I don’t need to do anything in October other than coo over my photos of the…