June 2012
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May 2012
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Luke Bryan
Luke Bryan is an American country singer, hailing from Georgia. You’ve probably heard his song Country Girl (Shake it for me), and if you haven’t, you’ll probably hear it at stampede this year. :) Luke has been nominated for Choice Male Country Artist (2012 Teen Choice Awards), will be playing at the CMT Awards, and if you watch the reality show, “The Bachelorette” you will have seen him playing a few songs on the third episode!
A while back, I got the opportunity to shoot a small, intimate Luke Bryan show at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino. I really enjoyed it - Luke was up close and personal with his fans and interacted with them, taking requests and even doing a shot with a fan on-stage. I would even hazard to say that it was one of my favorite live performances. Props to you, Luke.
Dean Brody at Ranchman's
Country 105 (Calgary country radio station) turned 30 this year! To celebrate, they threw an epic birthday party at Ranchman’s with a show by Dean Brody. Dean Brody played to a crowd of screaming fans, and had fun doing it! Here are some shots from the night.
Dean Morrison Band at Vicious Circle
If you’ve been following my work, you may remember previous posts on the Dean Morrison Band. Well, the DMB (as I will call them for short) played a fantastic acoustic set at Vicious Circle earlier this spring for an event called Night for Nepal.
Technical Breakdown: Unfortunately, the lighting was rather crummy and as I don’t normally shoot music with flash, I had to make some very last minute adjustments to my Standard Music Camera Settings. I’m pretty nerdy and I have worked out tried and true shutter/aperture/ISO settings, with small deviations for different light set ups. So, shooting the band in this “non-existant” lighting, something had to be sacrificed, and unfortunately it was the clarity of the photos. You’ll notice that they are a bit grainy, but a sweet little workaround for that is to convert the images to black and white, as higher speed film tends to be more grainy looking and this emulates that. :)
Unending Love
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age-old pain,
It’s ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.
—Unending Love by Rabindranath Tagore
