The pictures linked in this post are from two events from the night of January 31st -
the MAAM Summerfest preparatory meeting at downtown Kenosha's Sazzy B's and the
Sipos and Young open mic, featuring its first appearance at it's new home
TG's tap.*
Warning - this is lightweight photo nerd stuff. If you are a photo nerd, drop a comment or question. If you or a friend is in the picture, feel free to link them to it or download a shot. If that photo is for commercial use talk to me first, because I gots to make bank. The lights don't keep themselves on! Thanks!
These pictures were shaped by two influences in my past - first, my initial involvement in photography was with small newspapers, combined with my love of archived photojournalistic shots from the Depression.
The second influence comes from my involvement with the Uptown Salon in Kenosha. My partner - Dean Tawwater - and all the other visitors were painters and sketchers and such. What I got to see there was a fair amount of figure drawing and figure studies. These were done as an exercise to help the artists develop and further their skills. Ofttimes, the results would end up in shows and were interesting in themselves.
So think of these as figure photos. My secondary goal was been to make the lighting and such work so the pictures are "good". But primarily, I wanted to take the shots from different angles, trying for different interesting framings in the foreground with nicely posed central figures.
*didn't want to break in the middle of the paragraph for this, but I definitely recommend either bar as a place to get a bite to eat and enjoy music. If you make it to K-town check them out.
