a piggy’s favorite shot

August 19, 2015     alex's bar, band, bands, bar, black and white, Black Flag, blur, color, crowd, D7000, FLAG, flash, gallery, long beach, low light, mingus, night, Nikon, olympus, omd, photo pass, photography, punk, punk rock, Queen Mary, queens, Rock and Roll, rock show, signal hill, venue     2

August 5, 2015 – Piggy played at Alex’s Bar. It was so dark that I popped up my on-camera-flash for a few shots to fill in some light in order to get some of these photos. I never do that. I submitted a grip of PIGGY photos to New Noise Magazine, which you can see here….

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I would pay you a dollar to play dollar.

February 6, 2015     alex's bar, band, bands, bar, bixby, black and white, blues, bourbon, buffalo trace, california heights, crowd, D7000, family, friends, long beach, los angeles, low light, m43, micro 4/3, missed shot, motion, music, night, Nikon, olympus, omd, photo pass, photography, punk, punk rock, Rock and Roll, rock show, Rocket From The Crypt, signal hill, soul, tiki     2

Rocket From The Crypt played a 2 night stand at Alex’s Bar on January 30 and 31, 2015. They were great, playing different sets each night, and spanning their massive catalog. I’m sure everyone there left satisfied, hot, sweaty and tired … I also assume everyone there left bummed that they didn’t get the hear…

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Shooting out the Window …

October 17, 2012     airport, black sheep, blur, flash, friends, from the car, lambretta, long beach, photography, scooter, scooters, shooting out the window, signal hill, vespa     4

I wanted to call this post “Shooting guns with Vegans …” But I thought it was misleading. Shooting Guns with Vegans is something I recently did, something I enjoyed and something I took pictures of … But the pictures aren’t what I had hoped. So in my ever-present struggle with “over-sharing” I have decided that…

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