the wedding planner

Lake Travis

at Natures Point.

Hey Boss!

Tyler Schmitt is abducted by aliens while leaving Hyde Park Baptist Church.

Peacock

The peacocks at Green Pastures are so cool!

party grab

This looks like it should be an ad for some kind of liquor to me. Think I can sell it to Bacardi? SoCo maybe? haha.

Taken while second shooting for the oh-so-fun-to-shoot-with Tyler Schmitt .

Come one come all

Flyer design by the very talented Colin Gilligan.

Touch up

Marine wedding

The groom at this wedding had been shot EIGHT times in Iraq. Woah. Gangsters have bragged of less.

Moth

I'm surprised I had enough time to take a picture of this moth before the dogs attacked and ate it.

Mansion at Judges Hill

Reception at the Mansion at Judges Hill last weekend was a blast, especially for these guys.

Taken while shooting alongside Eric (who is awesome) for Studio563.

For Studio563

Simone's first camping trip

This was months ago. She is much bigger now.

New Orleans

Sisters

For Studio 563

dollar mondays...

...at Dart Bowl rock if you don't mind poor customer service and getting kicked out early. The website confirms they close at midnight during the week, but they have a bad habit of shutting the doors around ten.

Perks include bowling, beer, nachos and hot dogs for only a dollar but you gotta get there early cause these lanes fill up faster than CNN.com can post Swine Flu updates. And don't forget your hand sanitizer! Just think of all those germs.

spring time

I just love it when photos look like paintings. I'm having trouble getting photos to look the same in photoshop as when posted on blogger. I had heard that using Flickr solved this problem, but no luck for me. Any suggestions on this long, seemingly never ending battle for true color with blogger??

jalapeno flower

We've recently planted a veggie garden in our side yard and watching these things grow from seed to flowering plant has been magical. We'll be eating fresh tomatoes, peas, okra and peppers soon if all goes to plan! It feels really great to be semi-self sustaining and gives me a real appreciation for people who grow things for a living. Joey does a lot better job of describing the phenomenon in his post.

love this pair

Especially when we explain photography to each other over pitchers at Posse while everyone else is screaming about the Mavs game.

Go Mavs, btw.

wedding wind

© Courtney Dudley for Studio 563

Around the house

rip scooter

sxsw, finally done

I may end up posting a few more stragglers, maybe a Kanye or two, but these are my favs.


Janelle Monae at Peckerheads. Bad lighting, great spot.


Cold War Kids at Auditorium Shores.


The Levis/FADER Fort. Best venue at SXSW this year, IMHO.


Mr. Potter, otherwise known as "Charlie," "Rivet," and "Bug a Boo,"or in this case, VIP, relaxes at the Fort in between sets. What a rockstar.



Janelle Monae at the Fort. If you ever get a chance to see this woman and her band, GO DO IT. Twice.

lake weekend

Spike Lee, White Denim and M.Ward

convention center

Early mornings in the convention center make for nice light.

Simone love

I wish Simone would edit my SXSW photos for me.

Plus Mardi Gras

laissez les bon temps roulez

Callie and I took a quick trip to New Orleans for the last day of Mardi Gras and had a fabulous time, thanks to a friend with an open bed at the Sheraton for us to crash on. Never a dull moment. It was my first time to the Big Easy and wow, is that city awesome! I can't wait to go back when I can spend some real time exploring... and preferably not during the busiest tourist week of the year.

Introducing the wolf pack.

I may have to start a separate blog entirely devoted to documenting the adventures of the puppy pack, considering that they are oh so photogenic. Their cuteness is overwhelming. Until then, I'll be posting them here. Get excited for the adventures in chaos of (from left to right, top then bottom) Mingus, Darwin, Panda, Barbie, Kaiser Soze, Simone De Beauvoir (my pretty little poo bundle), Boo Radley and Haji.

Today we took a trip to Lady Bird Lake and were the most popular puppies on the trail. Geeze, if I were in the market for a girlfriend, this would be the best way to pick up chicks. Simone jumped off of a tall terrace leaving all the boys in her dust and she proved to be a remarkable swimmer. If only they's stay this small permanently, we could keep all of them in our backyard forever. Heres to a few more months of adventures in puppy land.

Red Cross training

I was sitting in my living room when I felt the house shake, as if someone had slammed the door as hard as they could. Went outside and followed the sirens down the street towards a fire a couple of blocks away. Luckily, no one was killed... the family smelt a gas leak and called it in, firefighters arrived just before the leak exploded and blew the roof off the house.

Issue 0

This photo illustration is from a mock fashion shoot for a mock ad for an online magazine that's in the works. Heads up; we will soon be taking contributors and would love to get as many fellow photogs as possible involved. More info on that coming soon.

RH

The quest to save Reagan High from automatic closure in May continues, although the mood on campus was quite positive today. Nothing is official yet, but due to some strong community activism and support, things are looking up.

malariafreefuture.org

posted.

welcome puppies!

Nietzsche is a mother and in 4-6 weeks Ranjana and I will be too :)

Sing.



Swing.



Salsa.

time to celebrate

for a handful of reasons.

The men of the family

...or at least some of them.

Barrett, Tim, Dad, and Uncle Rick enjoying each others company at Clayton's wedding.

Reagan High School struggles

Reagan High School from Courtney Dudley on Vimeo.

This is my final project for Donna's doc video class. I'm relatively pleased with how it came out, although I always envisioned it as a audio slideshow (boy, have I missed shooting stills). I hope to continue working to expand this project in the future to better encompass and be more wholly representative of the education reform issue. Its a lot of small problems compiled to make one giant one... and then I want to include a solution, which... well... does anyone know what that one solution might be? Its a tough thing to tackle.

I'd love to hear thoughts/critiques/ideas.

camp

Krause Springs. Freezing cold. So much fun. Happy birthday, Sarah Moore.

funx3 '08

St. Vincent was one of the best shows I've seen and shot in as long as I can remember. Keep it up Annie.

And I'd venture to say that Fun Fun Fun fest, and other smaller festivals like it, are much more enjoyable than the big mega-fests like ACL. I could shoot as long as I wanted in the pit, there was free beer/snacks/earplugs backstage, our cell phones didn't loose coverage and it was easy to hop from stage to stage without fighting through the masses and sweating profusely. As a regular attendee, you could show up at the stage mid-show and still get super close, if you're slinky. Fun, fun, fun.

African Americans and the media from Courtney Dudley on Vimeo.

This is a little video I helped V shoot for her Citizen Journalism class. We talk a lot about the history of African-Americans in the media (remember OJ on the cover of TIME?) in our journalism intro classes. But these issues, like the lack of coverage and the inaccurate representation of the black community, seem to leave the forefront of our minds somewhere between J315 and becoming a "real" writer, reporter, photojournalist, or whatever.

"The responsibility in covering the news is to provide an accurate representation of society and if you are excluding people you are perpetuating stereotypes of people and you are not fulfilling your obligation as a journalist. This isn't about 'this is a nice thing to do,' this is really about good journalism." -Dr. Paula Poindexter

It's something we all need to remember. Sometimes I get really idealistic, inspired and borderline crazy when talking/thinking/pondering about journalism, especially the photo kind. I mean, we have the power to make change... really, we do! We can't make people read the news, we can only go so far as to provide it. So lets be and write and show the change we want to see in the world. Lets give an accurate representation of society so that society has the knowledge and the information that it needs to change and improve.