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Rock The Bells 2010

Posted on August 31, 2010

I have a very love / hate relationship with the Rock The Bells tour. This was my third year in a row covering the tour and despite the consistently great lineups, the stages never run on time and it always ends up being a very long day. This year’s tour stop at Merriweather Post Pavilion featuring Snoop Dogg, the Wu-Tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest, Lauren Hill and many more was true to form. I rolled out…

Sports

2010 Legg Mason Tennis Final

Posted on August 23, 2010

The annual Legg Mason tennis tournament here in D.C. is always one of my favorite events around town to shoot so I was a bit bummed this year to only have the time to shoot one day of the tournament. Luckily it was the men’s singles final, so that worked out well. The tournament always happens during the first week of August, when it’s ungodly hot out and there are a million other things going on. I…

Black Cat Concerts

Here We Go Magic @ Black Cat

Posted on August 23, 2010

Fresh off shooting them a few weeks ago at Pitchfork Festival, I ended a very busy week in early August by shooting Here We Go Magic on a Sunday night at the Black cat. The club was less than half full, but the people that showed up got one hell of a show. This was my fourth time seeing the band and after a lackluster show a few months earlier here in D.C. at the Rock n…

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Janelle Monae @ Summer Spirit Festival

Posted on August 18, 2010

My official motto for 2010 is “Never plass up an opportunity to shoot Janelle Monae.” So when I got an assignment to shoot B.o.B. at the Summer Spirit Festival two weeks ago and I found out that Monae would be on just before him, well that was an easy assignment to take. Yes please! I shot Monae before, at DAR Constitution Hall opening for Erykah Badu, and she was pure dynamite. Her set at Merriweather was no…

Events

Corona del Mar Class of 1990 High School Reunion

Posted on August 16, 2010

When I volunteered to help my wife out at her high school reunion by taking photos at the event I thought it would just be your standard event environment, just roaming around the venue and getting people to pose for photographs together. Little did I know that there would be a mechanical bull! As you can see, this made for some pretty great photos and a nice addition to the standard event fare I generally get. These…

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B.o.B. @ Summer Spirit Festival

Posted on August 11, 2010

I already had an assignment for the Washington Post last Saturday but I had shot so many things last week that by the time they asked me if I could fit one more thing into my schedule, I figured why the heck not? My assignment was to shoot B.o.B. at the Summer Spirit Festival. Maybe, just maybe, I really took the assignment so I could shoot the day’s first act, the incomparable Janelle Monae, but that’s neither…

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Spoon @ Merriweather

Posted on August 8, 2010

Unlike my Arcade Fire photos, this set by Spoon went about as well as I could have hoped and I am very pleased with the results. Spoon has long been one of my favorite bands and I have shot them on numerous occasions, but they always seem to be very dimly lit when I am taking photos of them, which frustrates me to no end. I am still scarred by their lighting from their show at the…

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Arcade Fire @ Merriweather

Posted on August 8, 2010

Shooting a band with as many members as the Arcade Fire is no easy task. I know that now. And next time I do it, there will be a lot of things I do differently. My first mistake was choosing the wrong side of the pit to start on. I started on the left thinking I would get a few shots of Win and then move on but it didn’t quite work out like that. A video…

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