kim markovitz...



...big thanks to matt for helping carry gear outside between spurts of rain...

baltimore is hot right now...

...gonna get even hotter when charlie and i pump the jams in federal hill tonight...

cleaning the desktop...


...more fair...


...baltimore...


...coney...


...bushwick, baby...


...artscape 2k9...


...2.99...

don't turn it off...

philly...



obviously, not my photo...

...a few weeks back, philly loved the jams charlie and i had to offer...

highlight for me: dropped this and watched the entire room convulse...

vaulter...



my career flashed before my eyes this morning while shooting national pole vaulting champion sasha smallwood...she beefed it during one of the takes and slammed into one of my lights...she was fine, but i swear my heart stopped for a few seconds...

heaven is...

birthday beat...


...thanks to everyone that contacted me on the dang old 7.31...i'm in philly, shootin' portraits of babes, all is well...



birthday beat...

hittin' the bottle...


...wow, this was gettin' old...from a week ago when charlie and i moved a lot of people across the dance floor...this is the last i saw of my bottle...oops...

1996...

strange day...


...went from a wholesome swim meet...


...to a traditional pow wow...


...to participants going for the skinny dipping world record...

...well, the first two are business as usual, but the dippin' was awkward...

philly fourth...

wonderwall from drew anthony smith on Vimeo.



...somehow we made it to philadelphia for the fourth...better than the fireworks was joe bug singing wonderwall...

...hopefully you can last four minutes...

everybody now...

H2O thursday...



...md rookie fire fighter of the year...


...swim coaches...


the beat:



extras...


...hula hooper at the honfest...


...due to rain, this photoshoot had been put off for a month, but we finally hit a nice day...

thewaiting...

killin' dc...


...this weekend, charlie convinced me dc wasn't all that bad...




...without a doubt, this is the most sexual photo i have ever taken...



...sniff...



...not sure who shot this (charlie, lanny?), but this is our band photo (band name coming soon)...


...most guys just can not resist a girl with a watch...

if you hadn't noticed, each bloggyblog post this summer will come with a music link:

special...

finally framed...


...don't know if people have gotten their prints from joe yet, but my mully had been sitting around too long without a frame...

hons for days...



...hon fest 2009 was a blast...to see my portrait series, click drewanthonysmith.com and go to the HEY,HON portfolio...


...when hons attack...photo by patrick...

...today's tune...

surf shot...



...got to shoot athlete of the year erin johns on the beach in delaware this weekend...pretty cool, woulda been better if the sky would have cooperated...thanks to jose for coming along to keep cords out of the atlantic...dunno, might have something better, but these are the two i grabbed for the paper...

hon fest...