This area of photographic  interest has become more and more important to me because it is teaching me about all other areas of my photography.  While I am shooting on location with very little control of the scene before me I must trust in the flow and jump on in.  I find myself connecting to the music as if I am jamming along side of the musicians on stage.  During the deleting and selection part of my work I find I need to be more grounded in my certainty of my work, depending upon my personal sense of “rightness” rather than identifiable objects.  The composition and clear communication about creative energy of the event becomes even more important.

While I am shooting these images and later while working with them I feel incredibly grateful to the artists who were performing and their generous permission to use their creative acts on which  to   build my own.

I do not run my images through any computer filters or alter them after the fact. And being the pixel hog I rarely crop my images. Instead the camera sets the perimeter.

What you see in the photographs here is what you would see if I showed you the image on my view finder while it was still in the camera. Not that altering is bad, it is just not what I do while I am trying to capture the groove of the moment.

I do have to reduce the file size for the web.