I went to a holiday party the other day and actually left my camera in the car. On purpose. I had worked all day, and then played Dad all evening, and it was after 10pm before I even left for the party. I didn’t feel like shooting anything, but at some point I remembered that [...]
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Here in Westford there is an old 1880′s one-room schoolhouse in the historic Parkerville district. I recently had the opportunity to explore the inside of the schoolhouse, and there I found this antique upright phonograph. This is a detail shot of the fine speed adjustment lever.
A bass player holds down the bottom with his five-string while a band jams at the Chuggin Monkey in Austin Texas. I had dropped in to have a beer while listening to some live music and before long I was taking a hundred pictures of some band I had never seen before. They sounded good, [...]
I just got back from a trip to Austin Texas, where besides starting a new full-time job I also took a few hundred more photographs to process. One night I was out wandering around on downtown 6th Street and ended up photographing a couple bands and a lot of random people. If I handed you [...]
My lovely wife is also a musician. (One might argue that she is the only “musician” in the house.) Some evenings she plays with one of the local community bands. The other night she found herself pressed for time between work and the music gig and needed me to bring her saxophone to her to [...]
My sexy red Fender Jazz Bass. I had a good time shooting pictures of this last night and came up with a number of shots that I am happy with. I picked this one as my project entry because it really accentuates the lines and curves of the instrument. I’m sure I’ll upload the rests [...]
Quick shot of my favorite bass effects pedal tonight. I never really learned to play my bass well, so throwing in a little distortion always helps me sound a little better. (Not good, just… better.) To reproduce a stage lighting kind of look I have a work light low to the left bounced off a [...]
