Pirates and Gamblers, What a Night!

January 31, 2017     alex's bar, band, bands, bar, black and white, casbah, color, crowd, flash, Greg Jacobs, long beach, low light, motion, music, night, Nikon, photo pass, photography, punk, punk rock, Ribshots, Ribshots43, Rock and Roll, rock show, true crime, venue     0

Please click here to see my photos and review of Alex’s Bar’s 17th anniversary rockshow in New Noise Magazine. I am still not very comfortable with using my flash … But I used it for the Riverboat Gamblers’ set … I went back to high ISO for Throw Rag. Alex’s Bar is bathed in RED…

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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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Beth Short aka The Black Dahlia

January 8, 2013     bbq, Black Dahlia, bus stop, downtown la, inglewood, iphone, photography, street photography, true crime     7

Last weekend I went on a bus tour tracing the final days of Elizabeth Short … as known as “The Black Dahlia.” If you have an interest in true crime in general, in the Black Dahlia case specifically or the unsavory history of downtown Los Angeles itself, I highly recommend this tour and its producers…

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