More bored in the waiting room shots

Bel Air

Outside Lands

So, good timing, I happened to move to San Francisco right before the coolest music festival of the year.  What a drag it would have been to come out here right after it finished and miss it all.  Outside Lands is this amazing 3-day music and art festival in Golden Gate Park.  The lineup was ridiculous, it's set in the park in the middle of all these delicious-smelling eucalyptus trees, and on top of all that they really focus on art and food.  There were tons of tents of local restaurants serving up their fancy, tasty fare, and local lunch trucks.  There were public art installations everywhere, and live painting happening.  A great festival, I'm looking forward to going next year.  I was super lucky to be able to shoot the festival for the San Francisco Chronicle.  Their gallery of images is here, and below are a few of my favorites. 

Trey Anastasio of Phish

MGMT fans

MGMT

DJ Quantum

Ok Go

Muse

Ok Go

John Fogerty

  

  

Grouplove

The Decemberists

The Decemberists

Settling in in San Francisco

I've been in San Francisco a couple weeks now, and it's quite lovely.  I can't imagine ever leaving here.  I've started freelancing, mainly for the San Francisco Chronicle, and a little for msnbc.com.  Today the Chronicle ran a job I shot last night on their front page.  So far, so good.  Hopefully the work will continue, but for right now, I'm in San Francisco, and I'm happy. 

Here's a couple images from the job on the National Night Out against crime in Richmond last night.  Parts of Richmond are dealing with a serious upswing in homicides.  

 

Rough book edit

Ok, I'm still editing photos from Acorn Community Farm in VA.  While I was in town for Festival of the Photograph I shot a project at the commune, where about 25 people live.  It's a self-sustaining, egalitarian community.  Here's a rough edit that I put into book form.  Still working on the edit for my website, and trying to decide if I can swing another trip back there...

More from the road trip

Getting settled in CA, and getting used to the weather out here.  I'm pretty sure I can take it, not that Detroit doesn't have lovely weather.  And the ocean...I am a fan.  
Here's some more pics from my phone from the great road trip out here, in chronological order.

A hungry lamp post in Chicago

Gas station mascot, Nebraska

First day in CO - driving around Vail area

Two bridges, Red Cliff CO

Leadville, CO. I had to hunt down this field, because I remember stumbling across it on a trip as a kid.

Made friends with some cows.  They kept following me...

Along the roadside...

The amazing Arches National Park, UT

Rest stop, UT

Salt flats, UT

Rolled in to Reno, exhausted

Crossing the border from NV to CA

Finally made it to CA, so we got some wine and celebrated picnic style on the beach

Roadtrip to CA

I just finished a roadtrip from Detroit to CA, relocating me and some of my possessions to San Francisco.  I sent my main camera in for repair while I was on the road, so I had some fun shooting with my iphone.  I drove from Detroit to Chicago, where I stayed for a couple days. Then I drove through Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska to Vail.  I stayed in Vail for about five or six days, then drove through Utah to Salt Lake City, with a detour to Arches National Park.  Then I drove from Salt Lake City to Reno, then from Reno to San Jose.  I stayed with some pretty fantastic people and great photographers all along the way, and good times were had by all...

Here's a short series I shot out of my window.  More from the trip to come, but have to go unload Hans now and get my bike off the trunk.  

This is what Nebraska looks like.

This is what Utah looks like.

This is what Nevada looks like.