
Ive been in Japan for the past few weeks so the annual “Best Of” post has been postponed until now. 2011 seemed to come and go in a breeze. Check out my brief year-end wrap up and 100 of my favorite images made in the year 2011 after the jump.
Jan 16, 2012 | Categories:Commercial, General Portraiture, Music, Personal Work, Portraits | Tags: 120, ABN, adventure, art, best of, Big Boi, Buxton, Cecil Otter, children, documentary, fine art, Galveston, Hasselblad, hip hop, Houston, Lil B, live music, Lupe Fiasco, medium format, Money Clip D, Music, New West Records, P Diddy, Personal Work, Portraits, Pyrexx, Spank D, Square and Compass, Texas, Trae Tha Truth, Travel, triathlon, Wild Moccasins, Wiz Khalifa | 2 Comments »

Back in September I had the pleasure of photographing four talented musical artists from Movement of Kingz Entertainment at Houston Skyline Studios in Houston’s Warehouse District. We had a limited time to shoot, but managed to pull off several different looks for the guys. The crew from Vicious Films was on hand and produced an awesome behind the scenes piece from the shoot. Check out the behind the scenes video and the resulting images inside!
Oct 25, 2011 | Categories:Commercial, General Portraiture, Multimedia, Music, Portraits | Tags: behind the scenes, hip hop, Houston, Houston Skyline Studios, lighting, Movement of Kingz Entertainment, Multimedia, Music, Portraits, rap, Southern, Spoth, Texas, Todd Spoth, Todd Spoth Photography, Vicious Films, video | 2 Comments »

About a month and a half ago I got an email from Mike Mackenzie, Associate Publisher of Photoshop User and Layers magazines, letting me know that they wanted me to be featured in Photoshop User magazine. I was thrilled to be featured in a magazine that I receive and read every month. Check out the story and see PDF images of the entire magazine feature spread here.
Dec 21, 2010 | Categories:Commercial, Corporate, Editorial, General Portraiture, In Print, Personal Work | Tags: feature, fine art, Houston, In Print, Libby Johnston, lighting, Lightroom, magazine, NAPP, Newspapers, Personal Work, Photoshop, Photoshop User Magazine, Planet Funk, Portraits, promo, promotional, Published, Shawn Welling, Sports, Texas | 4 Comments »

We spent a recent long-weekend photographing models for an upcoming project. Several conceptual set ups were utilized and a handful of different models came to the studio to sit. One of the models we worked with was our good friend Sarah Jade Robbins who we have worked with before. See what we did with her here!
Sep 30, 2010 | Categories:Commercial, General Portraiture, Portraits | Tags: conceptual, flowers, Houston, lighting, model, paper, portrait, Portraits, posing, studio | 2 Comments »

As we wrap up the first week of the new year I can’t help but reflect on the past year. There were struggles as there are with anything, but I’d be remised if I didn’t sit back and be thankful for the good things. I met a lot of great people, made a few new [...]
Jan 07, 2010 | Categories:Commercial, Editorial, General Portraiture, Multimedia, Portraits, Portraits | Tags: 2009, adventure, africa, airplane, best of, dance, documentary, Events, Houston, Hurricane Ike, lighting, Multimedia, Music, Newspapers, Personal Work, pets, Planet Funk, Portraits, Rio de Janeiro, Shawn Welling, slideshow, Sports, Texas, Travel, video | 3 Comments »

As per my previous scribblings, my lady has started a new endeavor as a creative baker extraordinaire, focusing specifically on cupcakes. After years of cupcake pins, patches, clothes, stationary, etc I figure it’s only a natural progression. Regardless, the other day she made a batch of sushi cupcakes. I love sushi, and not because the [...]
Feb 18, 2008 | Categories:Commercial, Personal Work | Tags: baking, cupcakes, diptych, Graphic Design, Libby Johnston, luxcups, sushi, Sushi Coast, sushi cups | Leave A Comment »

PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: print mailers/flyers for The Lodge at Bayou Bend restaurant in Houston, Texas. PUBLICATION DATE: Spring 2007 LINK: N/A NOTES: Some of my food photography for the upscale restaurant, The Lodge at Bayou Bend (formerly the Rainbow Lodge, now Landry’s owned Brenner’s on the Bayou) was featured on these print mailers to promote [...]
Mar 01, 2007 | Categories:Commercial, In Print, Uncategorized | Tags: Commercial, food, Houston, In Print, mailers, print, promo, Texas, The Lodge, wine | Leave A Comment »