From the archive...

Going through my hard drives with the goal of organization and purging duplicate and ever triplicate copies of the same files I'm finding some old work that I think should have a little attention given to them. Travis came by the studio one afternoon a couple years ago to hang and catch up. It wasn't hard to find an excuse for him to play in-front of the camera. Travis if you're read this... when are you coming back to Austin for a visit? Miss you.

- daniel brock

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New website has finally arrived!

I'm extremely excited to share my new website with everyone. Its been long in the making and I'd love to hear what everyone thinks. Enjoy!


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p.s. I'm going to post tomorrow freshly uncovered work from the lost archive of files know as my six external harddrives .

E.A.S.T '09

Just as a quick reminder tomorrow (11/22) is the last day of E.A.S.T. '09 and if you haven't made it out yet you really should try. You'll be able to find me at Picture Box Studio (MAP) all day from 10am to 5pm along with several other amazing artists.

For more info CLICK HERE.

- Daniel

www.DanielBrock.com

Sharing more...

I want to start sharing more of myself and my work but also the fun little photos I've take throughout the day to capture the moment. I don't want to say "The Photo Of The Day" but I'm going to try my best to post a little something everyday. Lets start right now with a photo of Newton, our little (not so little) and very sweet kitten,


Have a great weekend,

- daniel

Cookies & Lets Hit The Road...

Its been a cookie filled few day for us while photographing the Sweet Baby Collection by Alexandra's Cookie Dreams. If you are a fan of a good cookie and lets be honest, who isn't, you should try some of Alexandra's gourmet treats. YUMMY! I'm personally a big fan of the New York Cowgirl and the Toffee Doodle Dream.

Everyone should pay her a visit: www.alexandrascookiedreams.com


Matt and I are leaving this weekend for a FAST road trip to El Paso, Texas. I've never driven through West Texas so I'm excited to see the landscape and of course to take a photo or two. I'm hoping to get lucky and be able to add some new skies to my collection.

Till next time.... :-)

- Daniel Brock
www.DanielBrock.com

A return to Kyle…

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This has been a rough and emotional week. Matt and I experienced a loss that I don’t even want to put out into the universe by talking about it here in detail. It’s cause a bit of a spacey week, which has left me in need to work on something that would keep my mind focused. I choose to return the shoot I did with Kyle a few weeks back. I’ve already posted one image from that session but these were the two that I was most excited about sharing and working on them has been uplifting. Thank you Kyle!

-daniel brock

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Dustin Wills at work…

It’s been a crazy week of shooting, friends, and family then wrapped up with a wonderful weekend of time spent with the Matty. One of the shoot that took in the past week was for Tutto Theatre Company’s upcoming production of Mikhail Bulgakov’s “Black Snow” which I’ll be sharing one or two of my favorite shots from that shot in the next week.

At the end of the Black Snow shoot we were able to sneak in a few frames with Dustin Wills, Tutto Theatre Company’s Artistic Director, which is something that I’ve been trying to make happen for months. For anyone who’s had the honor of meeting or even the greater honor of working with Dustin you’ll know that this portrait isn’t a stretch of the imagination in the slightest.

-daniel brock
www.DanielBrock.com

More from Hallie Martin a.k.a. Ruby Joule

I haven’t posted anything new in a bit but better late than never. I’ve been busy shooting and with my Tutto Theatre Company work. This past Sunday we shot the PR shoot for Tutto’s upcoming production “Black Snow” and had a blast. I should have image from that shoot that share in the very near future.

I also have had a first; I photographed my first male nude. Shocky, I know! The funny thing is that I’ve photographed more than couple nudes of pregnant women. I’ll be sharing work from that shoot as well very soon.

I had so much fun shooting Hallie Martin a.k.a Rudy Joule that I wanted to share more from the session. We already have another shoot scheduled for next week and I cannot wait!

daniel brock
www.DanielBrock.com

A Special Time

I’ve been spending a good amount of time lately going through all my drives trying to archive work and trashing a lot of crap that is just taking up space. Not the most exciting thing to be spend my time doing but in the process I came across this group shot of myself and the rest of the amazing group I took fashion with back in the school days. Miss you all.

- daniel brock
www.DanielBrock.com

Hallie Martin a.k.a. Ruby Joule

Good friend and the multitalented Hallie Martin a.k.a. Ruby Joule of The Jigglewatts (Google them… you’ll be happy that you did) came by yesterday and we had a blast. I’m in LOVE with this portrait! There are a few others shots from the shoot that I planning to share with everyone in the next few of days but I wanted this one to have the stage all to it’s self. Thank you so much Hallie for a fun filled and inspiring afternoon.


-daniel brock
www.DanielBrock.com

Salinas Pueblo Missions

We went to Ruidoso a little over two years ago and while there we chose to take several little day trips rather than spend time skiing. One of these trips took us to the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. It was a cold, windy day and while were there it started to snow. For me, it couldn’t get any better than that. I’ve been working on this image ever since the trip. I’ll spend time on it till I loose a sense of where I’m going with it, put it away and come back to it. I’ve repeated those steps several times now but now I feel I’ve achieved what I had in my head.

-daniel
www.DanielBrock.com

Long lost Leah

One of the projects that I’m forcing myself to do is the boring ass job of digging through all my hard drive, burning old work to DVD and getting rid of back ups of back ups of backups. In the middle of that I stumbled across this shot of Leah that was from a lighting test. Love it!

-daniel brock
www.DanielBrock.com

Lots of WINE

Matt and I spend all day Monday in a wine cellar photographing auction lots for the 2009 Annual Rare & Fine Wine Auction benefiting The Wine & Food Foundation of Texas. This all takes place during the Annual Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival. We shots hundreds of bottles throughout the day and so many of them are stunning pieces of art in their own right and not to mention pretty taste. The auction takes place this Saturday and I wish them great success because they do amazing work in the community with the funds that the raise.

-daniel brock
www.DanielBrock.com

Gabriel Luna

Gabriel is a supper cool guy and an extremely talented actor. I had the chance to photography him a few months back for the first time when it was just the two of us one-one-one. He’s one of those types of people that just get it. And must I point out how adorable of a smile he has.

-daniel brock
www.DanielBrock.com

A Holga in Paris

I pulled this out of a pile of Holga negatives from our trip to Paris a few years ago. It’s totally one of those magic Holga images that are born from forgetting to advance the frame between shots. Looking at this just make me want to shoot with the Holga more and in fact I think that I’m going to load it right now and do just that.

-daniel brock
www.DanielBrock.com

The Faces of Dave

I shot these just under a year ago but I’ve been messing around with them here and there ever since. I really cannot share just one of them because I feel that they’re extremely strong together. I kind of see them as a series of photographs taken during a prison interview of a serial killer just days before going to the chair!

-daniel brock
www.DanielBrock.com