Alison is wearing some of her own stuff here as well as some vinatage stuff from her work. Many more are coming, rebuilding my PC at the moment so it may be a few days more.

My edits….

This is something I have NEVER done before, so I hope you all understand that this is very important to me. I made a donation to the Obama/Biden campaign and I am hoping to raise $1000.00 for the cause. I would greatly appreciate anyone that would like to support the campaign please do so by visiting my personal fundraising page here - Fundraising Page

Here are a few of the images I have up for sale through deviantPrints using their new higher end offerings.

All images can be purchased through my deviantART store located here -Storefront

From my original posting…..

First, the show ROCKED hard, band was great and seemed to not only have a great sense of humor to go along with their creative anarchy, but to just be some great folks to know.

I was lucky enough to be their guest for the show with a photo pass. Did not get me behind the barrier for some safer close up shots. I shot from within the crowd and off to the sides of the stage.

I shot about 90% of the night with manual focus lenses on my DSLR. I have about 200 shots from Tuesday night to edit, but I wanted to get at least one up tonight.

I do NOT use flash during live performance shoots, it is not how the artist intended for you to see them or the show and it takes away from the feel of a live shot most of the time….in my opinion. In the future I want to have some units I can setup to match the lighting being used by the band so I can get some better shutter speeds at lower ISO’s to cut down on the noise/grain.

Sorry guys no autographs this time around, maybe on some prints from this shoot though Otep has a standing invitation to come to my studio for a shoot anytime they are in town.

Now we all know I have some dark art to submit, but I would love to have some new and never seen pieces to submit.

Jacks Art Show information:

http://jacksartshow.moonfruit.com/#

Jack the Ripper cordially invites you to submit artwork for his 120th Anniversary Art Show and Party. This will no doubt be St. Louis’s premiere Halloween Art Show. He is looking for art in all media and styles. Don’t limit your thinking to just pumpkins and black cats. Jack is open to anything that’s dark, moody, surreal, goth, weird, strange, bizarre, unusual, darkly humorous, or fitting in any way for a Halloween show.

Jack’s Halloween Art Show and Party is a one night event. In addition to fantastic art, there will be food, entertainment and a cash bar. We are also encouraging people to come in costume. It is a Halloween party after all.

Here’s the show details:

Saturday, October 18, 2008. 7pm-1am

Admission is only $2.00.

Koken Art Factory, 2500 Ohio Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63104

So if you feel up to getting dirtied, bloodied or just feel like goofing off for a funny yet Halloween inspired photo session just drop me a note/email.

John Williams

The full Tracy - Baby Mama gallery (so far)

]]> http://insomniacstudios.net/blog/archives/362/feed http://insomniacstudios.net/blog/archives/361 http://insomniacstudios.net/blog/archives/361#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:42:55 +0000 John Williams http://insomniacstudios.net/blog/?p=361 ….can’t sleep, in too much pain but the session was worth it, other than have to reschedule a shoot with Little Sarah and Iris Moon.

Here are the first two images from my latest shoot with Amber.

Some of my latest with Iris Moon

It is a good thing I did bump the shoots I had planned for Thursday, I am going to have to wrap my foot from now on I guess. Besides the normal pain a long shoot brings I managed to…..yep you guessed it….I just need a new foot.  Must be going up and down the stairs at the studio, right now I would like to just chop it off.

More shots coming…

I have so many ideas in my head and I cannot do them, why, they take MONEY. I hate how that is the biggest obstacle I have, money should not stifle ones creative ideas, but it does.

I have a shoot tomorrow with Iris Moon, she has an outfit she made just for this shoot, I am hoping we have finally got the photographer/model thing worked out. I am still figuring out how to get what I want from her pose wise and she is still trying to understand how I work. It just happens sometimes that way, but we will overcome it and I think tomorrow is the day.

Over at my daughters house sitting for her and Z, something that makes me a very proud papa, seeing she has a wonderful home and a wonderful man in her life. She is starting out so much better than her mother and I did, she learned from the mistakes we made and found someone that balances her out. I can be happy living in a cardboard box honestly, but to know they have this great house together just makes me feel good for her.

I think my heart is dead…I really do

Yeah that came out of nowhere…more shots soon.