April has been busy!

April has been busy! At the beginning of April, I was invited to be a content creator for a site called Buttrcup. Buttrcup is owned by the same group of amazing people over at Findrow.  Please be aware before clicking on the links.  Buttrcup is NSFW; and Findrow apps contain a little more graphic work. …

Stripped Down

Stripped Down I started shooting this project over 8 years ago with no clue exactly where it was going to go.  The beginning shoots were shot as i was learning high key lighting and made a lot of mistakes with a lot of learning along the way.  Each shoot evolved the direction I wanted to…

Pieces of You…

Pieces of You… Pieces of You is a new gallery that focuses on the less staged parts of my shoots.  Some of the images date back to when I first started shooting digitally after not having a camera for over a decade.  This series is more about real intimacy.  About what happens when people disengage…

Website Design V2.1

Website Design V2.1 This website redesign is everything that I have been wanting. It allows me to show my entire body of work without overloading the site with menu links. It is fully functional across all browsers and all devices. Desktops. Laptops. Phones. Tablets. It consistently displays my work exactly the way I have always…

Visual Communication Is Pretty Sweet © Shawn Collie Photography

Making Moves…

Making Moves… Well, making some of the images in my portfolio move around some. I decided to really look closer at my website and portfolio recently. I felt like there was one gallery that stood out and just didn’t fit so well with the rest of them. My Still Life + Product gallery felt like…

Heather & Her Heart: Surgery Day

Heather & Her Heart: Surgery Day As I write this blog post, my friend Heather is going in to what we all hope is a life saving heart surgery. The surgery has been rescheduled multiple times due to health issues, including what they feared was the beginning of kidney failure. For weeks she has been…