I have been listening to Steel Pulse for a long time. Many years ago I lived in Ashland, Oregon and used to work as a bartender at one of the biggest bars in town. We had a great crew working behind the bar and one of the reasons we got along so well was our [...]
It was a really busy weekend with both the Photo Expo west and the San Diego Quarterly Coimic Convention going on, but the highlight for me is when I can shoot a live show and thats what I did on Saturday night. Keller Williams played a fantastic show at the Belly Up Tavern in San [...]
On Friday, May 15, I spent the day crisscrossing the football fields at UCSD photographing the 2009 Sun God Festival. The festival is the biggest event of the year thown by the student body and this was going to be no different. A main stage and a dance hall tent would be going from 1pm [...]
On May 16 I shot the Dead on the last night of their Spring Tour 09. The show was at the beautiful Gorge Amphitheater a couple of hours outside of Seattle, WA. It was a triple bill with the Doobie Brothers, the Allman Brothers and the Dead. The Dead photos from the show are now [...]
Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann joined together with keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and guitarist Warren Haynes to take the Dead out on the road. That road led to the Los Angeles Forum on Saturday night. For those that don’t know, the Dead is the current reincarnation of the Grateful Dead. Part of the [...]
I recently had the opportunity to shoot the Derek Trucks band at the San Diego House of Blues. Shooting at the House of Blues in San Diego is always a challenge. From the lack of photo pit to the over zealous security combined with the limited views and inebriated crowd makes every show a real challenge. There was no way [...]