Photos of 3 week old Virginia

I've had a lot of fun taking photos of Zeke so I thought, why not take photos of some other babies and see how it goes. Today our friend Melanie brought over her 3 week old baby girl, Virginia. Here are some highlights from the shoot.

A Look Back

I'm sure most of you know by now that I love to go see live music. Well, with our current situation I made the choice last year to only attend concerts that I didn't have to pay for. I thought that I would look back at the shows I saw last year and see how I did. Below is a list of the bands I saw last year and if I paid to see them or not.

Free
Judi Chicago
Baroness
Torche
Boris
Pig Destoyer
High on Fire
Kylesa
Neurosis
Evil Army
Toxic Holocaust
Mastodon
Warbringer
Converge
US Christmas
Withered
Krallice
Wolves in the Throne Room
Gaylord
A Storm of Light
Harvey Milk
Coalese
The Annuals
The Indigo Girls
The Coathangers (2x)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Spring Tigers
Franco
Coyote Bones
Cursive
Man Man
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Grizzly Bear
TV on the Radio
Pop Evil
Judas Priest
Explosions in the Sky
Customers
Over 100,000,000 Dead
Butthole Surfers
The Happy Mondays
Psychedelic Furs
The Jealous Sound
Sunny Day Real Estate
Birds of Avalon
Steven Kellogg and the Sixers
GWAR
Port O'Brien
Thursday
Fall of Troy
The Deer Hunter
Gift Horse
Dead Confederate
The Meat Puppets
The N.E.C.
Jeff the Brotherhood
Shonen Knife

Paid
The Coathangers (2x)
Gentlemen Jesse and His Men
Noot D'Noot
Tori Amos (paid $10 for $60 tickets)
Damian Suomi
Lauris Vidal
Ricky Kendall

Not too bad I have to say. There's some big names in there for free. I managed to win so many tickets because I started to submit for contests in local publications and radio stations (also, for a few shows, I was given tickets as a gift). I even won a few more tickets that I didn't even use (Switchfoot is one that comes to mind). Sure I missed out on lots of great shows by not buying tickets but I couldn't really do anything about that. So, there you go.

Photo Site Redesign

My photography site just got a redesign. Go check it out here and let me know if you have any comments/suggestions.

Part 2

Here's a few more photos from the same house as the previous post. I'm not as fond of these as the previous batch but I thought they were worth sharing. Hope you enjoy them. I still have photos from another house to go through at some point so hopefully you'll see those soon.

Getting back to photography

Kendra and I took Zeke to Kendra's grandma's in Indiana for Thanksgiving. I decided that I would really like to bring some cameras along and start going out of my way to shoot again. It's been a long time. I got Kendra's great-uncle, Dick, to drive me around the cornfields of Indiana/Ohio to look for things to shoot. We found some really great abandoned barns and houses. The best of all just so happened to belong to Dick. He owns a house that has been sitting empty for 15 years. Well, maybe not empty. When it was abandoned, the previous occupant (Dick's step-son), left everything in the house. Here's a handful of photos (click photo to view larger version).

There was also an abandoned hogbarn behind the house. Here's a couple from inside.