it's all happening!
It feels as if my life is just beginning to hit it's stride. Remember I talked about cycles of 7 years being significant restorative periods of time? And that this year I am living my 7th 7 (turned 49 years old in September)?
Tomorrow night I have the biggest photo gig of my life so far. I have photo/press passes to cover the Coheed and Cambria concert at The Warfield in San Francisco. I have earned the privilege of receiving regular photo and writing assignments for the online music zine, groundcountrolmag. After the first concert review I wrote for them last month they asked me to send them a "wish list" of shows that I would like to cover. I will be at a minimum, the writer for upcoming shows by The Cult, The Waterboys, and Queens of the Stone Age. How this worked out for me to be the writer and photographer for C&C happened (I think) because I only requested the show last week and they didn't have a photographer available for the show! Am I jazzed? Yeah, you could say that.
The other thing that is happening with my photography is that I have had a breakthrough recently with getting models to work with me. I started a project of getting women to pose for me in cemeteries (go figger, right?), and well, the results have been pretty stunning I think. First there was Jane (earlier this summer), but then the stunning Brenna, Lucie, and my newest model, Johanna were discovered. I put an add up on craigslist a few days ago (funny story behind this, within 20 minutes after I added this posting it was flagged for deletion because there are people out there that don't like seeing adds where people ask models to work for free) and got three new offers of women who want to pose for me. This incredibly beautiful young woman Johanna agreed to do a second shoot with me yesterday. I will have some of her new photos posted to my site asap.
I contacted the local SF band, Grayceon a few days ago and asked if they would be willing to pose for me for this project. They are interested and this may turn into my first project of shooting promotional material for a band! If this gig is successful I will have advertising material to attract other local bands to work with me.
So that is about it for now. I'm really worn out from the gig Wednesday and the shoot yesterday so I am just going to rest all day today. Oh yeah, Wednesday night I was the writer at the Minus The Bear show at The Fillmore in SF. That review will probably be posted over the weekend.
As always, I thank my muses Robin Slick and Susan Henderson for activating the spirit of belief in myself and my ability to do this work. And in closing, enjoy this video clip and see if you can connect the dots!
Tomorrow night I have the biggest photo gig of my life so far. I have photo/press passes to cover the Coheed and Cambria concert at The Warfield in San Francisco. I have earned the privilege of receiving regular photo and writing assignments for the online music zine, groundcountrolmag. After the first concert review I wrote for them last month they asked me to send them a "wish list" of shows that I would like to cover. I will be at a minimum, the writer for upcoming shows by The Cult, The Waterboys, and Queens of the Stone Age. How this worked out for me to be the writer and photographer for C&C happened (I think) because I only requested the show last week and they didn't have a photographer available for the show! Am I jazzed? Yeah, you could say that.
The other thing that is happening with my photography is that I have had a breakthrough recently with getting models to work with me. I started a project of getting women to pose for me in cemeteries (go figger, right?), and well, the results have been pretty stunning I think. First there was Jane (earlier this summer), but then the stunning Brenna, Lucie, and my newest model, Johanna were discovered. I put an add up on craigslist a few days ago (funny story behind this, within 20 minutes after I added this posting it was flagged for deletion because there are people out there that don't like seeing adds where people ask models to work for free) and got three new offers of women who want to pose for me. This incredibly beautiful young woman Johanna agreed to do a second shoot with me yesterday. I will have some of her new photos posted to my site asap.
I contacted the local SF band, Grayceon a few days ago and asked if they would be willing to pose for me for this project. They are interested and this may turn into my first project of shooting promotional material for a band! If this gig is successful I will have advertising material to attract other local bands to work with me.
So that is about it for now. I'm really worn out from the gig Wednesday and the shoot yesterday so I am just going to rest all day today. Oh yeah, Wednesday night I was the writer at the Minus The Bear show at The Fillmore in SF. That review will probably be posted over the weekend.
As always, I thank my muses Robin Slick and Susan Henderson for activating the spirit of belief in myself and my ability to do this work. And in closing, enjoy this video clip and see if you can connect the dots!
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