baseball: scranton/wilkes-barre yankees @ durham bulls, originally uploaded by minervacat. It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
ian thomas @ the cave
ian thomas @ the cave, originally uploaded by minervacat. The organ version of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” segued into the Stones while a whole bunch of characters bury dead never-seen Kevin Costner in The Big Chill is the definitive greatest use of a Stones song in pop media canon ever. Maybe one…
john howie jr @ local 506
john howie jr @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. all round the world kids want to dance they’re falling in love, they’re joining bands they’re making records that won’t make the charts and rock and roll will break their hearts — John Paul Keith & the One Four Fives, “Rock & Roll Will Break…
the low anthem @ local 506
the low anthem @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. please take along all the best of my luck and come back unchanged your demons all tamed, your flowers uncut J. was nice enough to drag me along to see the Low Anthem with him last night, and they didn’t disappoint. In fact I was…
radio silent auction promo shoot
radio silent auction promo shoot, originally uploaded by minervacat. Spent some time with Radio Silent Auction yesterday, working up promo shots for them. I don’t do a lot of promo work because as a photographer I find it sort of artistically unsatisfying in theory, but I actually kind of got a kick out of playing…
magic mike @ local 506
magic mike @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. It’s rare that I get to watch Michael Casey work his (literal) magic in a place that’s well-lit; mostly we’re in bars and outdoors at night, but on Monday he thoughtfully stood directly under a streetlight and I got to shoot him blowing the minds of…
two cow garage @ local 506
two cow garage @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Out last night to see solidly enjoyable sets from Austin Lucas and Two Cow Garage; I’ve wanted to catch 2CG since I picked up their 2008 release Speaking in Cursive and it just blew me away, and they didn’t disappoint — crazy energy, good songwriting,…
baseball: syracuse chiefs @ durham bulls
baseball: syracuse chiefs @ durham bulls, originally uploaded by minervacat. Sometimes good photography is about knowing the technical stuff, or knowing how to adjust the technical stuff on the fly; it’s about having a good eye, understanding composition and color. There’s a lot that goes into it — I bust my ass to get better,…
baseball: salem red sox @ kinston indians
baseball: salem red sox @ kinston indians, originally uploaded by minervacat. THINGS THAT ARE WRONG WITH THIS PHOTO: No one is wearing Carolina blue. Tim Federowicz (catching) is wearing #22, not #19. Tim Fedroff (batting) is wearing #15, not #16. One Tim is batting while another Tim is catching. THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS,…
saxapahaw, nc
saxapahaw, nc, originally uploaded by minervacat. It’s a weekend for impromptu road trips to the eastern half of the state, for comfort eating trips to Sonic, for wandering around in small towns in the next county over, for late night phone calls.
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