Sweet Dreams
My only post today will be this reblog of my week 15 post at 52Rolls.net. It features a roll of expired film that I double exposed over images made perhaps 15 years earlier. The film is in terrible condition, but some of the images are very interesting. Head over there and have a look!
Week fifteen has produced serendipitous collages of the old and new; double exposures of recent images superimposed on a roll of expired and essentially dead film that was partly exposed a long time ago. In the image above I love how the kids clothes drain off down the lines of the branches of trees I shot in the cemetery, as well as the way it is divided up. To my eye, it is an exceptional image, even if unintended. I guess it fits into the current thing some people do of shooting a roll of film and sending it someone else to shoot again, but this time there is probably a 15 year gap.
A year or two ago I bought a bag of unexposed film, both 120 and 135, in a thrift store and have been slowly using it up. Some of the film has been a bit stale and produced…
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The Emcee
The past few days have featured the bands that played at a charity show on behalf of the UVic Mental Health Awareness Club. It was called Music Matters: Stigma Shakers with proceeds going to NEED 2: Suicide Prevention Education & Support and the Victoria branch of the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society.
The show was emceed by Jon Williams a local radio station voice who also shared his experiences as a bipolar person. He did a great job of introducing speakers from the various organisations that are to benefit from the funds raised, and seemed particularly good at helping them to relax as they came onstage. It was pretty hard to keep him in focus as he paced the stage with super-abundant energy.
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Carmanah
The excellent local band Carmanah also played the charity event that I have been showing (here, here and here). I had not heard them live before, though am familiar with their music. It was a real pleasure to see them, and they were fun to photograph too. You can find out more about Carmanah from their website (here) and their Facebook page (here).
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Hawk and Steel
Today’s photos are from the same charity event as yesterday’s photos, but this time of the Victoria band Hawk and Steel. The drummer in Hawk and Steel plays bass (and drums) in the Sam Weber band featured yesterday. Victoria is a pretty close music scene as witnessed by this drummer and Sam Weber’s slide guitarist rushing off at the end of their session here to play a bar gig with yet another band, one on drums, the other on keyboards and guitar.
I had not heard Hawk and Steel before and was glad to get the chance. You can find more of them on their Facebook page. When I was preparing this post their web page was having teething troubles over the launch of a new page , but I am sure this link will be active soon.
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Fourteen Concert Photos
This is my week 14 post from 52Rolls.net and is a companion to today’s burntembers article about Sam Weber. There is no duplication of images between the two posts, though some shots are taken very close together.
This past week I attended a benefit concert put on to support mental health initiatives. Several bands were playing, a couple of which I already knew and really wanted to hear live. My son plays in one of those bands, so I was able to make arrangements to take photographs. I have been meaning to take band pictures on film for some time, and this was a great opportunity as the concert hall in a former church has steady lighting and a dark background to help keep the shots uncluttered. Sadly one of the sponsors put a brightly lit sign at the centre back of the stage, which ruined a few shots and needed to be avoided when I remembered to work around it. Since it is my week 14 I have included 14 shots, though this is not even 10% of those that I took on film. Other film shots are being…
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Sam Weber Band
A few days ago I went to hear Victoria singer songwriter Sam Weber and his band play a charity event because I wanted to hear them live. And because I wanted to try my hand at band photography using high-speed black and white film. My son plays in the band, so it was pretty straightforward to get a photographer’s pass for the evening. Check out the links and other photos below.
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