Billy Sheahan Photography December 2009 Postcard
“I’m not sure if I got it. Maybe we should try one more.” The look on my model’s face said otherwise. She wasn’t a smoker, just pretending to be one for the shoot. The great thing about shooting digitally is you can see what you have instantly. The bad thing about shooting digitally is that [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography November 2009 Postcard
In the mid 1940s, Paris, France was struggling to regain it’s footing as the fashion capital of the world. Materials and fabric shortages, not to mention food shortages, conspired to drive Parisien designers to near extinction. In 1945, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue hired Richard Avedon to photograph the Paris Collections in the way it was [...]
BIlly Sheahan Photography October 2009 Postcard
What a difference a couple of miles makes. New Orleans is a complicated city. One of my favorites in the world. But complicated. When I visited there last February for a gallery exhibition I was showing my photography in, most of New Orleans looked like it was getting back to normal 3-1/2 years after Katrina. [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography September 2009 Postcard
“Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.” That’s how the great writer Nelson Algren once described the city. My city. Chicago. I’ve traveled all over the world, but I keep coming back to Chicago. I often tell people, “If summer lasted year [...]
Random thoughts as summer fades
After pretty much abandoning myspace (I only sign on a few times a month when I get a message from someone), I’m starting to grow weary of facebook as well. Maybe I’m just prioritizing my time better, but I find I can go days without checking facebook and I feel I really don’t miss it [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography August 2009 Postcard
Buckminster Fuller, the American philosopher, architect, and inventor once said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” I’ve been getting a lot of requests this year to direct television commercials. Creatives from a few advertising agencies who have been fans [...]
Coming up for air
I am fortunate that I am busy this summer. Bordering on too busy, but I’m not complaining. I’ll admit I’m getting a little crispy though. So when I get a day to play, it’s really appreciated. I took in my second baseball game of the summer with my new friend Lexi, watching the White Sox [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography July 2009 Postcard
As the old song goes… “Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’, into the future…” Where has the summer gone already? It’s gone into a prolific amount of work, happily. New adventures and new inspiring muses. One of the new models I have been fortunate enough to begin working with is Asphyxia. Of all the women [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography June 2009 Postcard
When I was in college, I really loved photographing my favorite bands in concert. The only problem was that it was illegal to do so. The good thing was that security was little more than a pat down and we came up with all kinds of ways to get camera bodies and long lenses into [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography April Postcard
I was walking through the St-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood in Paris in September 2005 when I saw the front page of Le Monde on a newsstand. The devastation of Hurricane Katrina that hit the US Gulf Coast a few days earlier was the top story all over the world. Now three and a half years later I [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography February 2009 Postcard
“Desire” Photography Exhibition Opening February 7th 6pm Continuing through March 21st 2009 New Orleans Photo Alliance 1111 St. Mary Street New Orleans, LA 70130 504-610-4899 www.neworleansphotoalliance.org I’ll be exhibiting photographs from my Black Pond Series next month along with 17 other photographers. The Desire Exhibition was jurored by amazing Japanese photographer Mayumi Lake who culled [...]
Billy Sheahan January 2009 Postcard
My parents are very private people. Bill and Mary come from a time when you work hard and do your best and things usually work out. I don’t fall far from the tree when it comes to my own ethics. As is the circle of life, when you get up there in years, life can [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography December 2008 Postcard
In the early 90s, I remember spending hours in Barnes and Noble Books pouring over the work by photographers who inspired me. I would examine the images like I was studying for finals. They were huge and beautiful and full of secrets. The lighting, the ideas, the sheer beauty of each photograph. Once in a [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography October Postcard… just in time
The horizon is a tricky place sometimes. What is out there? Is it a view of what is coming or where we have been? Are we moving forward or heading back into the same places we have been before? Learning from or repeating our same mistakes? Is what is in our future foreboding or something [...]
Billy Sheahan September Postcard
Michael Phelps is a really nice guy. Let me get that right out of the way first thing. Here’s a guy who is going to make millions soon and the time I had with him was at the end of a very long day with that started with the Oprah show and continued with the [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography July Postcard… better late than never
I’ve been doing a lot of fashion shooting lately. It’s always intriguing to make interesting photography of beautiful clothes on a lovely model. Clothes are always a challenge because I have to find the right balance between making sure the clothes are really prominently featured, but at the same time making a compelling photograph as [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography June Party Postcard
Saturday, 14 June 2008 7pm – midnight Paris Foncé (Dark Paris) Billy Sheahan Photography Studio Gallery 1017 W. Washington, Suite 3F Chicago, IL The moment I click the shutter is really the moment for me. Finding the right subject. Composing. Waiting. Click. The moment of commitment. But there are other aspects of photography I also [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography May Postcard
There are plenty of reasons why Paris is called the City of Light. Certainly because of it being a center of education and ideas as well as it being an early adopter of the beautiful street lighting when day turns to night. But beyond that, I find that even the daylight has a certain quality [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography April Postcard
When I was in high school, I was the lead singer and keyboard player for a garage band. At the time, we were pretty sure we were the real thing. I remember one week discussing with my band mates that perhaps we didn’t have to study for our chemistry exam the following Friday because we [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography March Postcard
Good energy. Sometimes when I arrive at a place I’ve never visited before, I instantly get a sense or a vibe from it. Part of it might be my state of mind when I get there, but I think it’s something more than that. Some places just have something creative, artistic or even mystical about [...]
Billy Sheahan February 2008 Postcard
You can purchase a 16×11″ signed print of the photograph in this postcard for $25 for a limited time. Details below…. People ask me all the time if I’ve switched to shooting only digital. I always say that I’m shooting a lot of digital, but there is still something about film I love. If I [...]
Billy Sheahan January 2008 Postcard
You can purchase a 16×11″ signed print of the photograph in this postcard for $25 for a limited time. Details below…. Some photographs come out of nowhere. Last month during the crush of holiday parties, deadlines and last minute shopping, I got a call from a friend of mine who needed a quick photograph taken [...]
Billy Sheahan December Postcard
You can purchase a 16×11″ signed print of the photograph in this postcard for $25 for a limited time. Details below…. I have a very short attention span for snow and winter. Since I do so much walking to get where I’m going, the snow slows me down. But I have to admit, it is [...]
Billy Sheahan Photography January Postcard
Even though I sent out of January Postcard a while back, I thought I would post it here since I started sending them out via email for 2007. If anyone wishes to subscribe to the free monthly postcard emailings, click here. And of course if you wish to receive them in the mail, that is [...]
