Snow Patrol - Hordern Pavillion

Yesterday I went up to Sydney to see Snow Patrol play at the Hordern Pavillion with my mother and sister. They are my favourite band and have been for a while now. This concert was the 4th time I had seen the band play live. I had tried to arrange a Media pass to get into the photographers pit but unfortunately this didn't happen. Not to worry. As usual we were up the front of the mosh infront of Paul the bass player. I managed to tweak the settings on my Canon IXUX 75 camera to at least get some slightly reasonable photos of the guys.

I can only imagine how good they would have been if I had had my DSLR there.

Had another nice long chat to Paul and Gary (lead singer) after the show and Paul had a look through my shots from the night; "Really! Awesome" was his response.

Here are a couple of the shots from the night. (Please forgive the "noise")

Paul From Snow Patrol. (Taken With IXUX 75)

Paul From Snow Patrol. (Taken With IXUX 75)

Darren Hanlon @ Tilley's

Tonight, Darren Hanlon performed at "Tilley's" for the start of his "Pointing Ray Gun At Pagans" tour. It was a huge crowd with the audience resembling sardines in a can. I managed to squeeze into the small gap at the entrance to the bar.  Lovely and close but unfortunately not much room to move and get varied photos. Tonight I was shooting for FasterLouder.

As usual, (this being the 3rd time I have seen Darren perform) he peformed brilliantly, interacting with the audience between and during songs. He is a talented musician and also very funny.

He played a lot of his hits and came out for the encore and played songs that had been requested during the peformance.

Chris Isaak

Tonight I got to take photos of American legend; "Chris Isaak".

He regularly performs here in Canberra and always seems to draw a good crowd. This time was no exception, with the AIS Arena pretty full by the time I arrived to shoot.

I was allowed the usual; "3 Songs, No Flash", but unfortunately Chris doesn't really like having photographers directly in front of him so myself and the Canberra Times photographer had to shoot from off to one side. Not that big an issue with the 70-200mm but the variety of photos was seriously lacking. Lighting was great and so was the performance.

"Josie" - Photoshoot

This afternoon I had a photoshoot with my wonderful friend, Josie. We had been wanting to do a shoot for ages and finally got around to doing it. I have been so busy with theatre lately that I haven't had much spare time.

We went to some of my regular photo spots; Lake G, Glebe Park, Stromlo and The National Museum. I finally got to take a few photos using a picture frame as a prop as well. They worked pretty well.

It was a great way to spend the afternoon and we managed to get a lot of great photos!. Thanks Josie.

Josie leaning against the red wall at the National Museum.

A moment of dancing caught through a window.

"Celebrate In The Park - 2009"

Jessica Mauboy

Today I went to "Celebrate In The Park", a free concert event organised to celebrate Canberra's 96th birthday.

Headlining the concert were the "Hoodoo Gurus", "Kate Miller-Heidke" and "Jessica Mauboy".

My primary reason to goto this event was the opportunity to shoot Kate again. She is a fantastic artist and definately one of my favourite singers. She has an amazing voice, great lyrics and is very theatrical with how she performs and dresses. I wasn't dissapointed. She performed brilliantly, the Canberra croud really getting into it.

The day was great fun, with a great turnout and pretty awesome weather. The bands were brilliant and I managed to get some great photos.

It's nice to be able to add the "Hoodoo Guru's" to my list of bands I have photographed. They are a classic Aussie band that still sound great.

Kate Miller-Heidke

Hoodoo Gurus