Now that I have two vintage Kodak film cameras, if I get a third, is it a collection? I think these two ladies are going to be Patsy and Dolly. Loretta will be the third, when I find her. (The Instamatic was a surprise gift from my darling Allie, who is too good a friend…
Category: all these flashes and cables
movies: the great gatsby
I really hate The Great Gatsby. Not for any reason other than the fact that I love F. Scott Fitzgerald, and I feel like Gatsby is over-taught, boring, and, well — I mean, honestly, I read Tender Is The Night in a bathtub in a hotel in Paris in 2000. How can Gatsby ever compare…
five minute portraits: basia bulat
After the show last night, the lovely and talented Basia Bulat was gracious enough to let me snap a few five-minute portraits of her outside the 506. I love the light there at night, and the texture of the bricks and the stickers, and most of all her face. Truly a gorgeous woman inside and…
a guide to concert photography: the ugly bits
There are lots of tutorials out there about how to take great concert photographs, thorough posts that cover pit etiquette and all the technical specs and hints you’ll ever need to know, but none of them ever seem to cover what I could have used most when I was starting out: how to get into…
college baseball: duke @ carolina
2, 3, & 4. Spent the weekend with the Paternal Unit, who flew down for the UNC series at the Bosh, against Duke. Beautiful weather on Saturday and Sunday, and Friday’s foul weather meant we got to catch a true day-night doubleheader yesterday. Carolina swept Duke, outscoring them 21-3 over three games, and moves to…
that was then, this is now
I shot Frightened Rabbit in 2010. The above is one of the shots from that show; I was very proud of it at the time. I still am, in its own way, in my own way. It marks a time. I wrote about that show here. What I didn’t write about was that show was…
brothers in arms: scott and grant hutchison (frightened rabbit)
This year, I decided to revive an old project that I’d conceived back in 2009, when I was first starting to get serious about the pursuit side of photography, rather than the taking photos side. I compiled a list of bands in which siblings, or siblings and relatives, played together, and decided to shoot casual…
the gaslight anthem @ the lincoln theatre, raleigh
I wrote about last night’s Gaslight show for Speakers In Code. Brian Fallon is still my favorite forever and ever amen. Charlotte’s Matrimony and Bloodshot Records’ Cory Branan opened; Matrimony was really enjoyable, but a little less electric guitar-y than I expected from a Gaslight opener. Cory was genius as always, and closed with “Girl…
the last bison @ motorco music hall
The Last Bison are about to blow up; mark it down. Their sophomore LP, Inheritance, is out Tuesday, and it’s going to be a doozy. They absolutely filled the space at Motorco last night in a gorgeous way. An excellent show, and glad I got to see and shoot them before they’re too important for me….
two sentence reviews of albums i listened to in february
Two from my buddies at This Is American Music this month, with one (Great Peacock) not quite out yet; I didn’t listen to nearly as much as I wanted to this month, and wrote about even less of what I did hear. I promise March will be improved! I have a lot to catch up…
brand new kind of photography 