Shannon Drawe | Blog

We are working hard behind the scenes on rolling out more updated pages on sdphotography.com. Meanwhile, sdphotography.com continues to be a hybridized version of old and new. So if you find yourself on a page that doesn't seem to go with the rest - click around and see if you can recognize my work more than page designs. The fly fishing site Texas Fly Caster has built a following that is surprising many and even that site is getting heavier with multi-media postings and podcasts. Texas Fly Caster will also be overhauled to be more participant friendly using wordpress. Sorry blogger. If you are slightly interested in fly fishing, have a look at Texas Fly Caster.

Labels: fly fishing, texasflycaster, wedding photography

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