The Scott Kelby World-Wide Photo Walk

woodwork, originally uploaded by Tyson of Habein Studio.

Great Falls edition.

We met at 8:45 am and walked for around 2 hours. It was nice to meet some fellow photographers in Great Falls and the farmer's market downtown was excellent. If you're in Great Falls, I highly recommend it.

Click through to my flickr page for more photos from the photowalk.

room key

room key, originally uploaded by Tyson of Habein Studio.

The room key to my room at the lovely Stardust motel in Wallace, Idaho.

Stardust

Stardust, originally uploaded by Tyson of Habein Studio.

I hit a deer. It punched a hole in my radiator and I spent the night in Wallace, Idaho. This was my residence for the evening. Not the spaceship, the motel it's in front of.

The Move

So the family and I have officially arrived in Great Falls. We've been here a little over a week now and are starting to settle in. Great Falls has always struck me as one of Montana's underrated cities. Certainly, Billings is bigger and Missoula is an arts mecca and some of the Northern reaches of the state by Glacier are some of the most gorgeous places in the world but Great Falls has a little bit of each of these things.

It's growing. It's got a community backing it that seem to be interested in getting everything they can out of truly being a community. That's something that a lot of larger cities often forget. While they may have more going on, they appreciate it less. Great Falls is cool in that way.

In the future I predict that Great Falls will become an arts and culture hub for Montana. That's one of the reasons I'm excited to be setting down roots here.

I'm now going to be officially making myself available for commercial shoots, weddings, and portrait work all over Montana. In a few weeks I hope to be in talks with some local places about hanging my work. And July will be the first issue of Electric City Creative. We're going to do things big here. Because we, like Great Falls, like it when things are happening.

Soon, we'll be moving everything over to the Habein Studio domain and business name. This blog will stay put, and the website for YellowHouse Photography will redirect for a time after the switch. New home, new name, new clients, new fun.

Speaking of which,I've got my first client booked for a big family portrait session on the 8th. I'll put up some preview shots after that happens. Until then: appeciate what's going on in your city.

A sample of the Brittany images from Thursday

Here's a small sample. We ended up with a boatload of keepers from this shoot.

My sincere apologies to anyone on dial-up. ;)

A Little Preview

... of yesterday's shoot. It was super casual. Brittany was a trooper despite it being fairly chilly still down by the river.

A big thanks to Shelly for the assist on this one. Feistyworks.com

There will be a whole bunch of shots to come from this one once the processing is done and Brittany gets her copies.

Infinitely Disposable

disposable fish pin-tyson8, originally uploaded by tyson@yellowhousephoto.com.

This shot has been getting some attention on Flickr lately for some reason. It's an older shot that came out of a disposable camera that I modified and then force fed film back through. Each roll out of the camera has a slightly different look.