I've been wildly busy lately inside of all the end-of-semester chaos, pulling more all-nighters than one ever should, but I did get to do a photo shoot for an upcoming album a couple of weeks ago. Stephanie Nash, a local singer-songwriter, recently got a deal with ASU's record label Split Rail Records. Check out her music and don't forget to check back, as we have more plans in the future.
It's no secret that everyone has been getting blasted with snow. I saw on the news the other day that Mobile, Alabama had its first measurable snow since 1998. Boone is no different, as we are normally calf-deep in snow 'til at least March. But this year, we have been hit with a total of 61.9" as of Feb. 14, and it's still going outside of my window right now. We were recently attacked by a blizzard that got classes here cancelled for TWO days in a row, something I have never experienced nor heard of since my move up here. What you see below is the storm door of my best friend's house. Both the inside (left side of the photo) and the outside (right) were covered in these weird puzzle piece-like blobs of snow. We waited that one out with a lot of N64 playing...
Major Magick, the amazing band to which I believe I've become the photo groupie (okay, they're also my friends), performed on Saturday, January 16 at Boone Saloon, an awesome bar here in Boone. These photos speak for themselves. I barely touched them in Photoshop because I really kind of like the way untouched photos look - I feel like I did more to capture the moment by being there and clicking that shutter button when it felt right rather than by making the moment later on some software. This is a group shot, the rest will be on my Wordpress (here!) by tomorrow.
My roommate Sheila and I took her dog, Forest, for a walk on campus a couple of weeks ago when she came up to visit. We started out in Durham Park before walking all the way through campus to King Street to grab some dinner at Our Daily Bread. Everything was in full bloom, proving to me once again how lucky I am to go to school at the most beautiful university in North Carolina. Walking to class amidst the mountains never gets old. Well, except for maybe in the sometimes subzero temperatures of winter. I actually took these on my little Sony Cybershot, which never fails to give me great pictures for a point and shoot.
As I walked home from class on April 15, I found that there were carloads upon carloads of people flooding the Hardees parking lot. I grabbed my camera and wandered over to find a modern-day Boston Tea Party-esque protest taking place. These tea parties took place all across the country to speak out against what some deem unfair taxes and the new government and it's policies, specifically the stimulus package. Though I couldn't stay long due to inclement weather, I did stand and listen on the porch for a while before finding myself in too much discrepancy to linger and hear more.
I took these photos for one of my assignments with the newspaper. I edited this batch much differently than I did for deadline and I definitely like them more. John W. Harris is a student here at ASU who started his own lighting company, High Country Light Design. The company serves bands in the Boone community, providing unique lighting designs for their shows. For more, click here and read the article in The Appalachian. There should be more of these to come as John graciously asked me to shoot some events in the upcoming months. I'm looking forward to it.
