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Return of the First Fridays Art Walk this week!

February 2, 2010 – 10:00 am

After taking a hiatus in January, ArtsConnect Topeka is returning in February with the First Fridays Art Walk!

On Friday, February 5th I’ll be hosting four students from Shawnee Heights High School:

Rachel Albrecht- Painting and Photography
Montana Galyean- Drawing and Sculpture
Haley Ogden- Painting and Drawing
Elizabeth Sumpter- Jewelry

Please come out and support these students and the great work that they do, and don’t foget to visit all the great artists showing through the Tinham Veale Upstairs Downtown Gallery and in the Break Room and Field of Greens Restaurants right next door!

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Hey, I’m famous!

January 5, 2010 – 9:28 pm

I’ve been a long-time listener of “LightSource”, a great photography podcast put on by the guys over at studiolighting.net. Bill and Ed evidently found me on Twitter and contacted me a couple months ago to see if I’d be interested in being on the show. I was pretty surprised as they’ve had some wonderful and brilliant commercial photographers on and I’m just this portrait guy from Topeka, Kansas but there was no way I was going to turn the opportunity down! We did the interview in November and it was released today!

The guys were really easy to talk to and we just kind of let the conversation wander, hitting a few specific points like the senior road trips I do.

Now that the interview is out I’ve had some contact with other listeners on Facebook and Twitter, so if anyone has any additional questions for me just shoot me a message or give me a call.

And don’t forget to subscribe to LightSource on iTunes and follow them on Twitter, it’s well worth going back and listening to the previous episodes! There is a ton of other great information on their web site as well, including video tutorials, tips, etc., well worth checking out!

By Brent | Posted in Musings, Studio Information | 4 comments Add a Comment

WylieWu -

mr. photographer i’m happy for you!!!
Ronnie Reid -

Awesome! Will listen tomorrow… Really enjoying looking through your work. Very inspiring!
russ merritt -

Hello. I love your images and their style/look. Im listenng to the itunes podcast of Lightsource right now. Tha’s how I found the site. Thanks for sharing your insights with the rest of us!
Kevin McGrew -

Hey Brent, just listened to the lightsource interview/podcast and went to your site and must say how impressed i am with your work. Love your eye and style and have been inspired by your photography.
kevin

Ryan, SHHS ‘10 Senior

December 30, 2009 – 7:00 pm

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Brett, SHHS ‘10 Senior

December 30, 2009 – 6:16 pm

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Senior Road Trip 2010 Las Vegas – Scouting

December 26, 2009 – 3:19 pm

This October I went out to Last Vegas for a couple of days with my make-up artist Amber and model Brooke to do some location scouting for our 2010 Senior Road Trip. We fought with the worst weather they had experienced since February (according to my uncle who lives there) and even got stuck in the desert and we still managed to pull off some great images! Here’s just a sample of a few images, please remember that these were adult models and not seniors and the images were shot for a new magazine premiering in 2010!

Las Vegas Scouting #1