Hello and thank you for visiting my web site! I'm Brent DeShazer, a portrait artist based in Topeka, Kansas who specializes in High School Senior Portraits. I also create portraits of families, pets, children and offer business and maternity sessions as well.
While I am a photographer, my passion is not about photography, it's expressed through my photography. My passion is to touch the lives of my clients by capturing images of those special moments that will never come again and turning them into family heirlooms and treasured memories. My passion is to create beautiful portraits of who you are, not just pictures of what you look like. I do this by getting to know my clients and working with them and the styles and locations that bring out their personalities and uniqueness. My goal is for every image to be a unique work of art that will cause your family and friends to exclaim "That's so you!" when they see your photos.
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Hey everyone, I’ll be participating in a photography think-tank down in Cancun for the next week with limited time and access to phones and e-mail. The studio will be closed during this time but I will return all phone and e-mail messages when I return on the 30th.
Thanks!
Brent
You might recognize Dylan from a post last week, she was the student who displayed her photography down at my studio for the Topeka First Fridays Art Walk in June! This week we met up for her senior photo session and had a blast, check out the underwater pictures shots which she was super excited about!
Meet Allison, another great class of ‘10 senior from Shawnee Heights!
On this months First Fridays Art Walk I opened up the studio for Dylan Clemmons to show some of her photography. Here was her artist’s statement:
“Dylan Clemmons is currently a senior at Shawnee Heights High School. She is involved with many art classes but her favorite has always been photography. Dylan enjoys bringing out the beauty she sees in everyone and everything through this art. She adored her first windup film camera (which she got as a 2nd grader), and carried it with her everywhere even though it didn’t have a flash. Her parents, Dale and Kate Clemmons, were thankful when her grandmother helped her purchase a 2 mega pixel digital camera at the age of 12, since she went through rolls of film faster than her mom could buy them. She now owns a Pentax K 100D and is hardly ever found without it. She appreciates still life but really loves “people pictures”. Recently, her portrait of her grandparents, In Step & In Love, earned an honorable mention in the Landon Center of Ageing photo contest and will be featured in next year’s calendar.
If you care to see more of Dylan’s work, visit her online gallery page at: deeceemarie.deviantart.com”
Here are a few images of Dylan with her display, with her grandparents and the photo that earned honorable mention in the Landon Center photo contest and finally a closer-up image of some of her work. If you know a high school student who would like to have their art displayed on upcoming First Fridays Art Walks please have them get in touch with me. Thanks Dylan!
We’re still here in Florida and we’ve been going from dawn to dark, but here are just a few images that I’ve had time to download and lightly process for those of you back home who keep asking! The Beach, Spanish Monastery, Cocowalk, underwater…and we still have a day and a half here! Everglades and city scenes today!
Underwater fun!
What happens when you go to the beach with five girls!
The whole group!
Brent my love put up some pics