Minor change on ƒ Consortium

I've given the site a face list, and basically stripped content.
The removed image galleries may be found on the right-hand column. Additionally, you may find other (newer?) images by selecting "photos" under the "Subjects" listing, or by visiting my Flickr account (and Vimeo for video)

Also, please visit my friends (formally links on The ƒ Consortium, now on the right hand side of this blog) as they are all wonderful people.

Changes - Thank you!

Last weekend was wonderfully busy. I'd like to thank everyone for their warm generosity and kindness, I only wish the weekend could have lasted longer, or at the very least that I had the energy to have headed back to the house for the mead and ritual Saturday night. I hope that we all shall cross paths again some day.

The video from the show is looking great, and with 5 hours of various interviews from the weekend, my workload is looking pretty intimidating in addition to the 200gigs of footage from Madrid! I'll be busy, that is for certain.

Robert and Nicholas, it was a pleasure to meet and speak with you both.
David, thank you for organizing this whole ordeal and allowing me to be part of it - also I you for the awesome books and music!
Scott, thank you for the interview! It was really a pleausre to speak with you in person.
Michael and Annabel, you were both so friendly and kind - I really look forward to our next meeting.
Jane, it was great to have finally met you - thank you for the encouraging words and the DVD!

It was indeed an unforgettable weekend, thank you to everyone involved!

(to view photos, click the image above)

Madrid le Blanc

(click the image to be taken to a gallery of photos from all three nights)


Thank you Jesús for making this whole shindig happen, my hat off to you for working tirelessly to pull of such a wonderful festival.

Andrew King and John Murphy for your conversations and interviewing with me on such short notice.

Many thanks to Simon Collins - I am so happy that we met. Dimo, Thomas, Gerhard, it's a pleasure as always. Marco, it was a joy talking with you, and I am sad that we could not have had more time together - stupid spanish payphones.
To the bands, thank you!
Arnica - You were, without a doubt the biggest and most welcomed surprise of the festival!

Also a big thanks to PortaBrace for making such a great hardcase! Without their case, those baggage handlers would have broken my camera 100 times over.


I will try to write more about the festival when I can - With this, as well as the footage from the Novemthree, A Minority of One, Waldteufel and Fauna show in Seattle, and the additional Bain Wolfkind footage, I have over 40 hours of footage to edit through.

A Leipzig New Year's in Pictures.

Not very many photos for how long the evening was, however most of the night was spent shooting video. And when I say most of the night I mean nearly 6 tapes. That's quite a bit for one evening in my book. Images of Die Weisse Rose, Nebelung, ROME, Camerata Mediolanense, and Allerseelen.
Enjoy!

R.F. Maston images

Images from the R.F. Maston photo shoot.
Click here.

Stepping outside of the neo-folk photography for a moment.

Tomorrow I'll be doing some promotion photography for a friend of mine and genuinely swell musician, R.F. Maston (Myspace - Official Site). I shot some test shots today and they came out smashingly. I'm pretty excited!

Also:

I'm still looking for a place to stay in Leipzig. I need space for two. If you can help, or know someone who can - please email me.

Bain Wolfkind and C.O.T.A., L.A.

The images are up. Video should be up next week. I'm excited about the video from Bain's set in particular, it looks splendid.
Visit the image gallery

In Gowan Ring and Markus Wolff images are up.

I've put up an edit of the images from last week.
The gallery isn't in flash this time due to massive multi-tasking trying to process video, audio and 500+ images not to mention my car broke down 40 miles from home. Ah, wonderful stress.
So once everything is edited I'll get things looking nice and bonny.

Click below for the image edit.

In Gowan Ring/Birch Book & Waldteufel

So the video footage has not yet been edited, but I've downloaded the images and am listening to the audio recordings right now and they are golden.

Once I get home I will finish editing everything, but here is a small sample of what is to come as far as the live shows.


B'ee of In Gowan Ring and Birch Book


Markus of Waldteufel



Markus of Waldteufel

As I said, more coming soon.

Auburn Essay

One thing that I failed to mention on the site is my in progress travel essay on Auburn, where I currently reside.
That can be found by clicking below.