Recently Published Work

I know the frequency of my blog posts has gone down this year. I'm shooting a lot more, which is good, but eats into the time I devote to this blog. I'm currently shooting for the newspapers, features and cover shots; Surviving the Golden Age, concerts and occasionally reviews; Russell's Photography, second shooting weddings; and myself. I try to post the outtakes from these shoots as quickly as possible, but in each case, I wait until the publication or site has run them first.

I have a few concerts that I covered that will be posting next week. I shot the Last Summer on Earth tour at Mohegan Sun last week, which was my biggest shoot of the year. I just found out that I'll be covering The Gathering of the Vibes this weekend for the newspaper and am currently jumping through the media hoops to make sure I have all the access I need. It'll be the first festival I've photographed, so the learning experience alone will be worth the hassle in the end. 

I always believe the more you shoot, the better you get. What do you think?

Stratford Answerbook

Every so often, I'll take on photography assignments at the day job. The pay isn't great, so over the past few years, I've only agreed to shoot things that are of particular interest to me. Each of the 16 newspapers puts out a supplement once a year called an Answerbook. It lists facts about the town: demographics, history, government information, points of interest, etc, in question and answer form. It's one of the hardest things to shoot because you have to try to find something that is distinctive about that town. Landmarks tend to work best, but those pictures can be very boring.

As you can see, it was an overcast and dreary when I took the picture. There's not a whole lot to work with: dead grass, no leaves on the trees and the left foot of the sculpture is being held up by blocks of wood. I didn't even have a nice blue sky; it started snowing about a half hour after I took the picture. This is where creative cropping comes into play. I zoomed in to get rid of the bleak background and angled myself to be able to get the crest of the building in the background.  Below is the final result:

Officially Official

I've never seen anything more incredible than that in my life! Look! My name! My photos! On The Eels Official Webstie!

A friend joked that he wanted me to autograph the website, so I did. If you want to take a look, here's the link. They're a sampler of what I've posted on my blog, and my full set is over on my website, under gallery then under concerts. I swear, I took just as many pictures of E as I did of The Chet!

Hopefully, this is the first step of many for me! Thanks to all my friends that encouraged me to send my photos along to the right people; you know who you are. God damn right, it's a beautiful day!