Two of the reasons I came home!

This guys are one of the main reasons i came to spend some time in the midwest this winter.  The baby is Padraic, my brother Tim's little boy. I am staying with them for a bit and get to spend lots of time with this little guy.  He is HILARIOUS! I love it that i get to be here for so many of the cool things that babies do for the first time. He should be walking any day now and then we are all in T.R.O.U.B.L.E. 

The other little man is Wyatt, my brother Michael's son. He is seven and ALL boy.  He LOVES that i constantly have my camera in his face as you can tell. Him and I spend Tuesdays and Thursdays together after school hangin out and then we go to Tae Kwan Do.  Yes, that is right, I am doing Tae Kwan DO.  It is actually pretty awesome, and soon I will feel confident that if I were ever in a street fight that i could truly kick some ass. The other day, I was paired up with a five year old.  He was the cutiest little boy with a mohawk and a gorgeous smile.  He totally smoked me in my form, it was amazing. I was truly in awe of some of these kids.  It is not all kids.  it is a mixture of about 30 people ages 5 to 50, it is very awesome thing to see.

Don't worry pictures will be coming.

Lil' Miss Cora Turns One

This little girl is one of my FAVORITES to photograph!  She is just one of the most beautiful babies i have ever known.  I had the pleasure to be invited to her 1st birthday party.  It was quite a scene, babies were everywhere and with chocolate icing all over their faces.  A week or so later I had this lovely shoot with Lil' Miss Cora and her awesome mom Libby.  It was a little cold, but we powered through.  Here is what we came up with.  Seriously, she is frickin adorable.      

 

Old guys running.

These are from a very early morning shoot a couple of days before the end of Digital Intensive. Pat and John, my handsome models, were some of my students and were amazing about getting up early to help me out.  I didn't get exactly what i was looking for, I need to keep building off of this idea but a couple of them turned out great.  Thanks again guys for helping me.  And Pat, I LOVE the one handed push up, you are too much! 

 

Lp in the House Part Deux.

Catching up on some posting from shoots over the last month.  This is my second shoot with the lovely ladies from Liquid Planet.  Thank you so ladies, you are the best.  

LP in the House!!!!

Today i spent a couple of hours with four lovely ladies from Liquid Planet.  For those of you not familiar with the infamous LP,as it is referred to in Missoula, this is the coffee shop directly across from RMSP. The staff over there gets to know us real well since we spend any break from class over there stockin up on more caffeine. 
I took them out in to the woods for a photo shoot and we had a great time.  I wish i would have take a picture of us hauling the wardrobe down the trail, i am sure it was quite a scene.  And Damn you girl in the pink shirt for not moving out of my shoot and then commandeering my cart that i got mad at and threw on the side of the trail.  Suffice it to say, it was a great time.  You ladies were awesome to hangout with, i am glad we finally got around to it. Christine, Bethany, Lindsey and Esther thank you SO much.  for taking the time.  See you shortly for my first coffee of the day.
Eileen

The New Website!

The new website is up and running!! www.eileenkeenan.com

I have a few other kinks to work out over the next week or so, but I feel good about having a face on the web. 

 Follow the link above for now.  Once it is officially linked to my domain name, www.eileenkeenan.com, i will let you know.  

Eileen

Shootin Some Stock

On sunday I had my friend Shawn's son, Marcus, pose for me with his football gear.  I am positive,  at this very moment,  my brother Tim is laughing his ass off since I am not a fan of football myself.  One year I called him in the middle of the Super Bowl just to chat. I truly had NO IDEA there was this 'big' game going on and could not understand why he was so annoyed with me....  Anyway, back to Marcus.  First of all i would like to say he is the nicest teenager i have met in a very long time, what a good kid.  And as you can see he is a pretty good lookin kid as well.  He put up with my ridiculous questions about football and was great at following directions.  I think he had a lot of fun.  The next round will be with him and two of his buddies doing their football thing, should be a good time.  Marcus and Shawn, thank you for taking the time.

Below is some of the images I got that day.  It was a GREAT start, but definitely looking forward to getting more.  Talk to you all soon.. Eileen

 

 

 

Making A Name For Myself

Sooooo...... I am trying to get into iStock. One of my goals is to spend the winter building my portfolio for stock with the help of my amazing niece and nephews. We are going to dress in costumes, go play in the snow, run the streets of Chicago and Indianapolis and much, much more. I have quite the list going... I am teaching myself to shoot specifically for stock; to come up with a list of ideas that I don't see out there in  the photo stock market and do everything I can to portray that in still imagery can be quite challenging. . In the last 3 years I have mostly been shooting Portraits and Weddings, which I love and still do on a regular basis, but stock is a different mind set.   You have to be aware of details in the image that otherwise would be null and void.  My friend Forest Woodward walked me through some of my possible stock shots and gave me an idea what will and won't work, he has become a bit of a rock star in the iStock world these days.  I am going to resubmit to iStock and see what happens, maybe i too can become the next Janis Joplin of iStock.  I will keep you posted.

Drunkin Missoula

After spending the day working on my blog and book keeping and my website and blah, blah, blah... i decided to take a bike ride downtown to my car that was booted on friday by the lovely Metermaids of Missoula. For this I am sure i will catch plenty of shit for on monday by all the lovely AI students, since it has been there all weekend, that is a given. Along the way i passed by many many reasons why i love this town and will miss it so....
After crossing over the pedestrian bridge I almost ran into a couple of girls stumbling out of the Silver Dollar to have a cig. I passed the Depot and the James Bar that were still hoping after the Griz Homecoming. Pizza on the Fly had quite the line from all the late night munchers and the Ox was just starting to pick up for the evening or should i say early morning. As i passed by Ferquoi's (?) there was a very passionate girl enjoying her 4 ft. blow up penis on the corner, as we all know once you have made it to Ferquoi's you are in for the the long hall. As i continued on I watched a very drunk kid stumble across Higgins Ave while the light was green and cars honked at him because he was being a jackass. As i passed him i told him to "be careful" and he told me to "fuck off". Oh drunk people. Don't get me wrong it is not the bars that i will miss, it's the people. i have never felt more myself in a place and for some reason all those people i just saw for a moment reminded me of how great it is to be in a place where you can just be you, no matter what.
Thanks for listening to the ramble.
Eileen

I have fallen in love for the fifth time in my life.

     My oldest brother Tim and his wife Jeannie tried for a very long time to have a baby to no avail.  They had given themselves over to being a fantastic aunt and uncle, which they have honestly mastered quite well.  Last year, on my birthday, they told me they were pregnant.  At first, I didn’t believe them.  I thought they were playing a joke on me.  Sure enough they were and I was thrilled at the fact that we would have another kiddo in the family. 

The time has finally arrived … Padraic Foley Keenan was born on February 4^th, 2010. 

  

     I jumped on a train last week to come and meet the little fella and help my bro & sis get acquainted with their new life.  We've had a photo shoot pretty much every day and Padraic & his Aunt Eileen have bonded quite well.  Here is a taste of some of our shots we have gotten, with much more to come…

Welcome to the world little buddy.


Love, Aunt Eileen