So not much had happened as far as photography goes over the winter. I worked a lot. I haven't shot a show since Gwar played the Silo in Reading. I moved up to Quakertown with my partner in crime Steevo and his girlfriend (and my other best friend) Jess. Finally I went ahead and invested in more studio lights so I can start doing real studio work. Those arrived the other day and I'm excited to start playing around with them. We are moving again very shortly. Hopefully I'll have space in our new place for a small studio set up. I have about 30 different people interested in some TFP/CD work to beef up my portfolio and get some practice as I'm not nearly as experienced as I'd like to be. I'm still waiting for a backordered high quality tripod to arrive. The one I have now was cheap and substandard, not meant for serious work. There's always the old beanbag trick in the meantime!! lol

As far as more concert photography goes, Oi Fest is coming up 3 weeks from today. I'm anxious in a good way and a bad way. It's being held this year at Croc Rock. Last year was at the Sterling with very nice lighting considering the size of the place. Croc Rock is a bigger, nicer venue, but the lighting is horrible for photography. I'm not particularly fond of the set-up in general either. It's a much narrower venue as opposed to a wide set-up which is so much nicer for photography. So because of the substandard lighting I decided to go ahead and buy that Canon 580EXII I've been eyeballing. It was expensive, but probably well worth it. Unfortunately it too is back ordered! It supposedly was supposed to ship out the end of April, which would give it ample time to arrive for Oi Fest. Here it is a week later and it's still back ordered. If it doesn't ship in the next two weeks, I'm going to have to cancel the order and look to find it somewhere else where it is not back ordered.

One really big deal with Oi Fest is that my wonderful friend Emma will be coming down from New York state to stay with me that weekend for the show. I almost don't even care about the show now. I'm just going to be so incredible happy to spend time with her.

Other updates: I am currently working on a website to display my online portfolio. When it does go live it will be a little basic in design and contain solely concert photography as that is all I have ample material of. Little by little I will be tweaking and streamlining the design of the site and eventually changing it to include less concert photography and more of the variety of photography that I will be working on beefing up during the rest of the spring and throughout the summer. These areas will include portraiture, headshots, landscapes/cityscape, glamour, artistic nudes, street photography, and of course promo style work for bands, artists, businesses, and whoever else is interested in having work done.