Not Much Lately

April 4, 2016     band, bands, friends, garage, Greg Jacobs, iphone, long beach, music, Natural Light, phonography, photography, punk, punk rock, Ribshots, Ribshots43, Rock and Roll, rock show     3

I haven’t been shooting too much lately. I was scheduled to shoot the Jon Bunch memorial show last month in Santa Ana, in fact, I was asked to be one of the official photographers, and to have some of my images used in a documentary being made about that show … Unfortunately, I got sick…

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Big Deal …

March 25, 2015     art gallery, band, bands, bar, black and white, Black Flag, Blasters, blues, building, Captain Sensible, crowd, D7000, Dave Alvin, descendents, downtown, downtown la, family, filmage, fisheye, FLAG, flash, flowers, Foo Fighters, friends, gallery, graffiti, haze, hollywood, iggy, iggy and the stooges, iggy pop, in-store, long beach, los angeles, low light, m43, micro 4/3, music, night, Nikon, olympus, omd, Phil Alvin, phonography, photo pass, photography, portrait, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll, rock show, roots, soul, The Damned, true crime, venue     4

While I am merely an unpaid hired gun set photographer, I feel very attached to Death or Glory. Recently, I assisted in putting on an event at Angel City Brewery called “Steal Music Buy Art” or SMBA for short. SMBA was created to debut 4 episodes of Death or Glory but became so much more….

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sometimes I really hate RED

June 24, 2014     alex's bar, band, bands, bar, black and white, iphone, long beach, missed shot, music, night, phonography, photography, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll, rock show, san diego     0

I got to see 2 great bands on Thursday night (6/19) at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach. The Widows and Octagrape, both from San Diego. Weekday rock shows are always difficult. After a day’s work you need to rally to go out that night. Personally, I depend on Red Bull. So, I got home from…

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out of shear laziness

October 24, 2012     architecture, black and white, bus stop, caught my eye, clouds, color, food, iphone, ocean, otis, patterns in nature, phonography, photography, reflection, san diego, street, street photography     0

i bring my camera with me everyday, everywhere I go. Usually I bring the Olympus E-P3 because its small and convenient and still takes great pictures. Lately, even though I have my E-P3, I’ve been leaving it in the bag and just bringing my iPhone. When I say “bringing” I mostly mean on dog walks…

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