cellular obscura

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 Hi folks. Long time no see. Hope everyone is doing well. Just wanted to let y'all know that Friday, February 10, 2012 is opening night for my first solo show of the cellular obscura pr...

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Hi. Thanks for dropping by. As you can see it's been a little quiet around here. But we're in the process of changing that. While we upgrade and toss around ideas for the newest incarnation of t...

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Boylan Heights ArtWalk is one of a kind. Over one hundred local and regional artists set up on porches and front yards in one of Raleigh's historical and easily walkable neighorhoods. And I'...

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2010/12/boylan-heights-artwalk-time-again.html

Just found out a 16x20 print of Air Force One (previous blog here ) won an honorable mention at tonite's opening reception for this year's photoSPARK at SparkCon . And uhmmm...I didn't pl...

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2010/09/honorable-mention-at-photospark.html

From my understanding August is the slowest month of the already slow summer season for a lot of galleries and many owners and curators take this time for a bit of R-n-R . Well, if you're no...

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2010/08/two-gallery-shows-this-month.html

A scene along US 501 in Rustburg, Va. I kid you not. I photographed this first and then learned where I was. The town forefathers were certainly clairvoyant.

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2010/07/nature-bats-last.html

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.  ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Happy Independence Day.

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The Southern Short Course is back in Charlotte, NC this year, and for some crazy reason they've asked me to speak about this little cellphone project. So at 1:30 pm on Saturday I'm the openi...

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2010/04/heading-back-to-charlotte.html

If you're ever in need of coffee in Asheboro, NC, stop in to the Coffee X Change on Sunset Avenue. Not only a cool place to relax and free wi-fi but if Zach's there, you may get your portrait d...

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2010/03/art-punk.html

We were in Florida a few weeks ago for a family function. My future uncle-in-law is an avid hunter and his guest room doubles as his trophy room or as the family is fond of calling it "the roo...

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2010/02/room-of-death.html

For 17 years Greg Taylor was locked away for a murder he didn't commit. On Thursday he was "the first person in North Carolina to be exonerated using a new process established to handle convi...

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2010/02/walled-in-no-more.html

I'm teaching an intermediate photojournalism course this semester at UNC-Chapel Hill. We'll be concentrating on learning how to light with strobes; studio and the smaller 35mm flashes. But fir...

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2010/01/cherry.html

When I mentioned to friends a few weeks ago I had to cover Sarah Palin on her book tour, the usual groans and giggles and shaking of heads in disbelief (as to how her popularity has come to ev...

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2009/12/going-rogue-is-new-black.html

So, about this time last year my friend and fellow kick-ass photojournalist (and now proud papa ) Ethan said "Shawn, I think you need to show your cellphone work at the Boylan Heights ArtWalk ...

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With its 'grotesque beauty' and 'deceptive serenity' (not my words, but how this mountain was described in a fourteen minute video, well... more like a powerpoint presentation, for tourists) Br...

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2009/11/brasstown-bald.html

The NC State Fair is in our backyard so one of us is out there just about every day through the two-week run. I had my chance again yesterday as reporter Matt Ehlers and I did a story on what...

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funny how sometimes the silliness of simple things takes on added dimension and power. especially when you've only journeyed halfway home and the comatose inducing sweep-swish of the wiper bla...

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2009/10/washaroo.html

Changing of the guard on a rainy afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery.

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2009/10/tomb-of-unknowns.html

Better known as the Edge. During the 360˚ show in Charlottesville, Va.

http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/2009/10/scientist-of-band.html

My fiance and I took advantage of a free day between our two u2 shows to tour DC. Our first stop off the metro was Arlington National Cemetery. I've never been, but have a feeling it won't be t...

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Just returned from Atlanta. Drove down twice in the past week and a half and both times my departure back north coincided with severe flooding hours after I left. This was the view looking towar...

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it's been a great year so far and it keeps getting better. starting this friday, september 25... if you're in atlanta, ga. or stowe, vt. please stop in to the spruill gallery or the helen day ...

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