Shannon Drawe | Blog

Seeing the Britney Spears (BS) saga unfold, is there any doubt that at least in L.A. they eat their own.

On This side of the free world, there are a lot of new things in the works. There's a new website going up soon - dedicated to dentonartists, and aptly named dentonartists.com. This is a hub where people who teach art lessons, sell and repair instruments are listed so that they may have a presence on the web without all the hoopla that goes into doing what I am doing right now - building these sites. Another new site I will be building this Spring is a medical hub for people who need medical services in the North Texas area. It is www.dentonregionalmedicalservices.com, and this one has legs of its own. This year's mantra - diversify! What I do is still who I am, but it is fun to throw some of these long simmering concepts together and see if the contraptions will fly.

A fresh set of four images will go into Casa Galaviz in the next few days - images from a trip to Tulum. If you are a local, stop by CG's and see what's showing. The images are very ... tropical.

I most recently had a wonderful shoot in Texoma / Denison for Senior Resource Guide, a wonderful older couple who has traveled the world on safaris. The image is difficult to describe, but zoo would not do it justice.

Last weekend saw me at a local gallery / showroom the Bowlegged Cowboy (BC) way out on HWY 380. I was called in by the folks from Cowboys & Indians magazine to photograph a sculptor working in the BC as well as the owners of the BC. They were fantastic people and I only hope the images run in the magazine this year with a photo credit that is legible and larger than the two point type used for their last shoot.

Labels: art lessons, bowlegged cowboy, britney spears, casa galaviz, cowboys indians magazine, dentonartists, dentonregionalmedicalservices, mayan riviera, tulum

Happy New Year and thanks to all my clients that made 2007 an exceptional and transitional year! Last year saw the requisite number of individual clients and a virtual explosion of corporate and magazine opportunities. While the state of the photographer's industry is still shaky and in transition, it seems seeds planted in 2007 will bear fruit aplenty in 2008. For those of you who may be watching, 2007 took a personal turn with the discovery of fly fishing (as if it didn't exist before!). It culminated in a new site blog and podcast based in its roots, and that site is texasflycaster.com . This year should tell where that goes, but be assured I will have camera and recorder in hand to let viewers know where I am in my free time. If you haven't tried fly fishing but think you would like it, cast on over to the site. It is cobbled together with templates from Mac iWeb, loads slow and will get a makeover soon, but you will get the jest of where it is headed.

Other blogs will be deleted this year, while you can expect new web sites totally dedicated to local stock photography, politics, music and entertainment. It's all rock-and-roll to me and I like it --- to paraphrase Mick.

We collectively decided to go one more year with the Silverleaf project - a photographic book of bands that play local bar Dan's Silverleaf. That project slowed down as fewer big bands made the stop in the second half of the year, and I became a little burned out on just doing live performance action shots. Just a little cooperation from the artists coming in this year could go a long, long way.

Look out here we go! Shannon

Labels: fly fishing, texasflycaster