Let's get back to landscapes here for a bit. I just spent a little over a week in Beautiful Nova Scotia and spent some time traveling around part of Cape Breton relaxing and shooting some landscape. It's been quite awhile since I'd spent some quality time shooting like that. My concert schedule for the summer has been pretty hectic and taken a lot of my time. The time I've had left I have just spent around home and not really getting out much. Truthfully, a lot of that time has been spent processing and writing reviews. Last week was my time for de-compressing and unplugging from the world. Time for me and it was wonderful. 11 days with minimal internet and no TV, just a good book and time for me. This is a picture that came from this past week, hope you like it.
Photo of the Week #85
Friday night I attended the I Love the 90s Tour at Rogers K-Rock Centre in Kingston. The Headliner was Vanilla ice. I haven't really been a fan of that type of music, but I had an assignment to shoot, so I went with an open mind to check it out. The atmosphere inside was pretty different from anything I'd seen before with non-stop music and dancing. Virtually everyone there was dancing and partying the night away. It is obvious that Hip Hop is alive and well.
Photo of the Week #84
This weekend I was once again on the road to shoot a concert. This time it was some of the heavy hitters of the 70s rock scene, the guys I grew up listening to. I went to the Budweiser Stage in Toronto for Edgar Winter, Alice Cooper and Deep Purple! I had shot Edgar Winter a year ago and was pleased to see him again, what a gem of a performer that guy is! Next on the bill was Alice Cooper, a childhood interest of mine since a friend gave me a cassette of him on one side and Led Zeppelin on the other. I listened to that tape over and over, couldn't get enough of it.
During the 70s heyday of Alice, he was the first of his breed, no one else was doing things like he was and it was pretty electric. Last night I got the first four songs in the pit and I was also reviewing so I was able to hang around and listen to a whole set for a change. I watched the show, remembering how bad I wanted to see him while I was growing up but didn't have the chance till much later. It brought back many memories of growing up listening to Alice records and hearing all the stories of people who HAD seen him in Concert.
I walked around the amphitheater and just watched. I watched the show and the moves that were so carefully choreographed. I also watched the fans. Some were dancing, others were singing along, many were in makeup or one of the several $50 T-shirts that were available in the merchandise area. They all seemed to love Alice though. How can you not love it, it's Alice Cooper?!
Photo of the Week #83
Better late than never, isn't that what they say? This week's image is a photograph of fishermen in Nova Scotia unloading their catch of lobster. When we first bought the house there, I wanted to go out and capture those iconic images we all know from the postcards and magazines about the maritime fishermen. You may remember the shots of the old weathered fishermen wearing the brightly coloured slickers and sou'westers, maybe holding lobsters, maybe not. You can still find them on postcards there to this day. The thing is, things change over time and fishing in the maritimes has changed with it. The cod isn't fished any longer and the boats have become bigger and more modern, the fishermen have become more sophisticated in their techniques. The photographs like I dreamed of making are still there, just more modern nowadays. Maritime culture and people are still like no other, it's a great place to hang out. If you get there, don't forget to make the time to really get to know some of the people, you will be better for it.
Photo of the Week #82
I thought that my music photography has dominated my blog for most of the last while, it's time to get back to landscapes I think. I need to get out and relax with my camera too. Sometimes, life just gets in the way and you have to make time for yourself and do what makes you happy, right? I totally forget where this image was made. I think it is somewhere near Mabou, Nova Scotia. I was chasing a nice storm cloud up a side road one day and this scene presented itself to me. I am drawn to old buildings in the first place and this setting was too nice to pass up.
