I’m excited! So much so that I’m not going to bother writing an introduction. May I proudly present: Shell Bailey Photography! Hooray! Now you can see my galleries & buy prints & keep up with my new work all in the same place! I will continue to post here, but that site has RSS feeds for my recently updated & the whatnot if you’d like to get the scoop on things first.

With the new website finally comes Gettysburg pictures. I mentioned how much fun I had, right? And how lovely it was?

My good friend Stephanie, bundled against the wind.

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The one-shot self-portrait. Tired, bleary-eyed, wind-seared, freezing bloody cold, and having an absurdly good time. On top of Little Round Top, Gettysburg, PA. (It’s my entry in Greeblemonkey’s November contest! Make sure to check out the other great entries.)

I know, I know- some day I’ll get used to this whole blogging-with-regularity thing.  I keep thinking, “I’ll just wait til tomorrow, so I can upload X picture to go with it!” Problem being that I am in the middle of switching my image hosting and it is taking a looong time.  Uploads are already slow with the large image sizes I use. And now, with the new image host (I love it! and will have a great reveal… soon.) uploading sucks up all of the bandwith. So now I do all of my uploading overnight/on my midweek day off so that I don’t end up with a grumpy husband who can’t access the intarwebs.

Anyway, there are things to look forward to! We went on a trip to Gettysburg this weekend (easily one of my favorite places in the world) and there are lots of awesome shots from it. Seriously, I’m impressed.  The weather was at once beautiful and awful- cold, rainy, miserable, fog everywhere; tornado warnings; then horrible gusty winds and snow. It made for a soggy, frozen, but absolutely lovely weekend.

Also coming up to post very soon are photos from my first engagement shoot! I had a session with Matt & Kim last month in the beautiful fall scenery and we couldn’t be happier with the shots.

And then, the grand reveal of the new webstore! Just in time for Christmas! I can’t wait.

One of Many Hats

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Yes, it’s one of those kinds of days.

the end of summer

With the start of a new job, life’s been too crazy to do much shooting lately. I’m hoping to get some more portrait sessions taken care once the leaves change, but I’m also not sure if those will be something that I can post right away… Lots of secret projects right now.

I’m hoping to get some new test shots in tomorrow. In the meantime, an old shot of a very dear girl, in celebration of summer’s end.

Recently one of my very best friends and dance partner was in town. Her schedule is understandably very whirlwind whenever she’s in the area, so we were both very excited when we managed to put aside some time just to hang out and take pictures. We’ve been meaning to get some promotional shots done for our bellydance troupe’s new website, and jumped at the chance.

Chelsea was probably the first person to let me shoot her all those years ago. By now, we have a long-standing tradition of invading her parent’s farmhouse, throwing all of our clothes into a big heap on the bed, agonizing over costuming and makeup decisions for at least an hour, and then running outside and shooting hundreds of pictures. Who doesn’t like to play dress-up? Plus, she’s naturally gorgeous, and at this point is quite used to me taking pictures of every move she makes, so it’s hard not to pick up the camera while she’s around.

Can you blame me?

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Just one for today… a quick self-portrait under the kitchen window.

July Fourth!

And only a few days late. This weekend has been pretty crazy family gatherings and everything else, so I’m only getting a chance to see what I took now.