What I've Been Up To Lately...

Since the creation of my website, I have done four girl's (college) senior portraits, as well as photographed the Strawberry Festival here in Roanoke, VA. Here's a quick glimpse of each shoot, and if you want more, check out my website (www.jessicasheaphotography.com) There's a gallery for senior portraits, and the festival is under Events. Enjoy!

Karlyn (and friends)

Tiffany

Jessica

Amanda

And some favorites from the Strawberry Festival:

My website is officially up and running!

After months of designing it, my website is finally launched! And here it is, so check it out if you get a chance:

www.jessicasheaphotography.com

Enjoy!

Directory for my writing and drawing

Just to make them easier to get to, I have compiled all the links to my artwork, stories, and poems, since they tend to get lost among the photos.

Here are some pastels, wire sculptures, and a painting on that cardboard circle that pizza comes on.

Here are some short stories I wrote and illustrated: A Sea Story (which was published in JMU’s publication, Hopscotch), Simon and Hunter, and The Rainbow Fairies.

Here are some sketches with conte, pastels, and pencil.
Here are more pastel and pencil sketches.
And Here is some mixed media.

And Here's some poetry.

My Book Is Complete

So I changed the title of my book, it's now "Moments in Monochrome" instead of "Fashion in Monochrome." I decided to go with a deeper theme:

Moments in time are moments of beauty, and without color we are all monochrome. We are equally beautiful in black and white, colorblind if only for a moment.

The whole concept was just that, once these moments are converted to black and white, we all share that in common; everyone in front of the lens is the same two colors. Women need to feel beautiful, and this was a sort of tribute to them, no matter what race or ethnicity.

It turned out to be 38 pages, and it's now up on Blurb.com! So check it out :)

My latest project...

Fashion in Monochrome: the title of my new book I'm going to make (through Blurb.com) for my final portfolio. I made a book through them about a year ago, it was titled Man Made vs Nature, and it turned out extremely well.

So this time, I chose to experiment with fashion photography in high contrast black and white. I'm really excited to see the final project. Here's a glimpse of what I've been doing for the past couple of weeks:

Happy Spring

Some flowers and such to prepare you for the season to come :)

And I want to give a special thank you to Lexmark Ink Cartridges for featuring my blog on their awards site!!

Snooki pays a visit

That's right, she came to JMU, her first college stop in her tour. And I was within inches of the 4'9 star of the Jersey Shore, poof included. Haha, just kidding. With the poof she's well above 5 feet tall.

So I got to photograph her for the full hour she was on stage, being "interviewed" by a comedian. If you're wondering what they could possibly talk about for over an hour, the topics included a fist pumping session, an ab contest with 6 members of the audience, a poof-making lesson, and a Q&A session. Oh, it was entertaining. And then, I had access to the meet and greet where I took a picture with her. Fun stuff.

So here's a glimpse of the latest celebrity among us college students; some don't agree with her status, but the people who were there were acting like Cameron Diaz was up on stage. So anyways, either way, I hope you enjoy!

And, if you gotta have more, here are the rest

Enjoy!