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festival ∙ Rifflandia 3 · Victoria BC

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Highlights from the third annual made-in-Victoria Rifflandia Festival. Canon EOS 450D (XSi) · Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II 50 mm · 1/60 s · f/2.2 · ISO 800 Jocelyn Greenwood of Jets Overhead. Rifflandia was, by all accounts, turbo epic. 157 artists at 11 venues over four days, all accessible with one wristband. Due to “scheduling conflicts” (the classic concert-canceling …

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Blue Sky Guitar

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The Blue Sky Music Festival guitar, autographed by rockstars aplenty. Canon EOS 450D (XSi) · Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II 50 mm · 1/200 s · f/22 · ISO 100 Strobist: Sigma EF 500 DG Super, full power, 2′ guitar right, pointed forward, remote triggered; Sigma EF 530 DG Super, 1/4 power, 2′ below/left, slave triggered Signed by Tom Cochrane, …

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concert ∙ Finger Eleven 2010 · Victoria BC

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Scott, James and Rick from Finger Eleven play a surprise acoustic show in Victoria. Canon EOS 450D (XSi) · Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II 50 mm · 1/15 s · f/1.8 · ISO 400 Picture the set (as Dwight Myers said in 1989): buncha Zone listeners in a gym/studio, hanging out, munching pizza, drinkin’ pop, listening to tracks from an …

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festival ∙ VEMF 2010 · Victoria BC

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Moments from the 2010 Victoria Electronic Music Festival. Canon EOS 450D (XSi) · Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 10 mm · 1/320 s · f/11 · ISO 200 Stiltwalkers from the Victoria Burning Man community at VEMF. Canon EOS 450D (XSi) · Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 10 mm · 1/10 s · f/3.5 · ISO 400 VEMF from above, 2010. Canon …

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concert ∙ Slipknot 2009 · Victoria BC

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Some legitimate Hallowe’en fear. Slipknot at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Canon EOS 450D (XSi) · Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 19 mm · 1/160 s · f/10 · ISO 1600 I feared for my safety last Friday. It started when I got out of my car and realized I could hear the opening band from the street. Quadra Street. Almost two …

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concert ∙ Blue Man Group 2009 · Victoria BC

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Rock Concert Movement #6: The Two-Armed Upward Thrust with Yell. Ready? Go. Bonus Friday photo from the Blue Man Group show, now with photo accreditation! That’s right, for my third photo cred ev-ar, and my first in the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre, I, along with photographers from the Times Colonist, News Group and elsewhere, was given free reign to shoot from …

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concert ∙ BEAST 2009 · Victoria BC

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BEAST rocks Lucky Bar. Canon EOS 1000D (XS) · Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 17 mm · 1/25 · f/2.8 · ISO 1600 I was lucky (GET IT??!?) enough to have been given photo accreditation (my first!) to shoot BEAST at their concert last week, and enjoyed a great show from some very talented artists. While technically cruddy, my final shot of the night, …

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concert ∙ NIN 2008 · Victoria BC

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The mind-blowing life-altering religious musical experience of nine inch nails, live at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria BC, December 5, 2008. Canon EOS 400D (XTi) · Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II 50 mm · 1/200 s · f/3.5 · ISO 800 nine inch nails could very well have been the single most incredible performance I have ever seen in …