I've shot many a band in my time. I love shooting concerts. It's certainly not the easiest form of photography, but it can be one of the most rewarding. I've shot rock bands, rappers, DJs, electronic acts, vaudevillian musical ensembles. I wasn't really ever expecting to add "teen pop girl duos" to that list, so I was kind of surprised when Jonnie and Brookie asked me to shoot their performance at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio earlier this month. It was part of something called GirlExpo, an event celebrating 100 years of the Girl Scouts (my knowledge of which is strictly limited to the wonderful, wonderful cookies they sell. Caramel DeLites may in fact be the greatest things ever created by anyone, ever, in the history of time).

Jonnie and Brookie are sisters from Arizona who have been performing since they were little kids. Like many teen girl acts, they perform songs about boys, how they don't need the aforementioned boys, or occasionally that they do in fact miss the boys and want them back. Unlike a lot of teen acts, however, Jonnie and Brookie write their own songs and play their own instruments. Kudos. They won Radio Disney's Next Big Thing competition in 2009, and it looks like they've been garnering a pretty sizable fan base ever since. Both Jonnie and Brookie along with their backing band were great fun to shoot, and clearly the hundreds and hundreds of Girl Scouts going absolutely bonkers had a good time too.