You can’t really see music but you sure can see the effect on people
A fly fishing music festival right into an album cover shoot! A pretty solid play list I’d say. Started with a few days in Charleston, if you haven’t been put it on your list. Great people, great food, super fishy community or anglers and that wraps right into the music scene with lots of opportunities for street-like portrait photography. So many talented people hanging out together at the Refinery. The list is long and I won’t dive into it here, but you can hit Soulflyco.com for the details and complete run-down on music, art and activities. I got to roam the venue and capture the moments, it’s amazing to see so many people get together and raise money for conservation and enjoy some art and music.
Finished the few days with some much appreciated time in the estuaries around Charleston searching for Redfish with a flyrod…. on a lousy tide. Put a nail in the coffin with a beers, barbeque and worn out friends on a perfect sun soaked sandy island. All in all a really great weekend of music photography, fishing photography and portrait photography, lots of variety, love it.
Album Art and Portrait Photography
From there back home and headed over to Maine for a short portrait session with Peter Prince for an album cover. Peter’s idea was to use his storage unit as a backdrop. We used his white car as a giant bounce card to bounce light into the unit and make an otherwise dark space brighter. Both Peter and I brought a few loose ideas to the morning. The combination of guitars, antique drums and even a carved head made for lots of interesting textures to fill the frame. One idea was to have Peter “buried” in all of his things he’s collected over the years. We started with there but the photograph I really liked was towards the end of our time with Peter walking out of the storage unit. The concept of the Album cover was to give a nod to the past as well as a little peak into the future or present. This is the frame I liked the best, but we’ll see which one Peter decides on. We finished the session with a few headshots and more portraits for the album.
I don’t like to push my photography into one niche, there’s too many fun projects like these that might get missed if I was described as just a “Outdoor Photographer“. I’ll continue to jump around and follow interesting projects in whatever genre they happen to be in.