My love for music (in this case the Lemonheads) and my love for photography combine to make this sublime image. I have a few more cool ones from this shoot I'll share later.
I'll be driving up the coast to Sacramento tomorrow for xmas. Then it's off to Houston until New Year's Eve. Chances are, this will be my last post of 2006. But I'll surely have many photos to share next year.
Happy holidays!
Saturday I had a photo shoot with a professional actor, a stunning young model and her mother.
Here are some photos from the shoot.
They are pretty high res so they are probably suitable for printing.
All of the photos from the 10k/5k that I shot last Saturday are up over at fotojack.com. There are over 6000 photos from this event! My photos scattered throughout but nearly all of the first 14 1/2 pages are mine.
So if you want to check some out, go to this link and start browsing.
As previously mentioned, our heroes Chevas, Lisa and Andrea ran in the race. You can search their bib numbers for more photos.
I'm pretty pleased with the results over all. I think I took a lot of good photos and I hope the runners find their way to the site and purchase some of them. Fotojack will even put your picture on Wheaties box... pretty cool.
I did learn that for an event of this size, I will need to invest in more memory cards. I have nearly 2.5GB worth of cards at the moment but I could have easily shot double that for this event.
I also learned that my new lens is perfect for just this sort of thing. It's the Canon 28-135mm with image stabilization. The runners were flying by me at a steady rate and the lens had no problem auto focusing. Which left me free to think about composition.
Right about now you're probably saying, "Gee Sean, we love the photos, but where can we download live versions of the new, unrealesed Wilco songs?"
Well, I'm glad you asked.
Turns out, Wilco has always been pretty cool about letting people record the shows and pass them around for non-commercial use.
So go get you some new Wilco songs courtesy of Jesse Jarnow's Frank and Earthy Blog.
I had two photo shoots on Saturday. The first one was the Venice-Marina Christmas Run. It was a 10K and 5K run through the Venice Boardwalk for FotoJack.com. I was up bright and early for the 7:30am start time (and if you read the last post you might surmise that that was no easy feat). It was a beautiful day and I submitted about 60% of the nearly 1,000 pictures I took. That included several of Chevas, Lisa and Andrea who all ran the 5K. As soon as they are up on the site, I'll post a link here.
After the run, I had about an hour to download the pics to free up my memory cards, recharge the batteries and eat before I was off to shoot the newly formed CSU Long Beach Salsa Club. It was a challenging shoot because of the large group but in the end I got a lot of really good shots and I hope they are happy with them. I'll post some more of these as well.
It was an exhausting day but I was happy to finish up the night at Fisherman's Village watching the Christmas boat parade in the Marina... alas, no pictures from that.
Winter Wonderland party in a hanger at Santa Monica airport. Left the battery to the camera at home but we got a few shots before we left.
UPDATE: Byron has cool photos from the party.
Ahhh... life in Marina del Rey. I took this picture off the pier shortly before sunset. This was one of about 10 dolphins we saw that day. Click the picture to biggie size it.
Last night Chev and I went to a Beck concert for about 200 people. It was part of Yahoo! Live Sets concert series so it should be up on there soon.
On stage was Beck, a drummer, 4 multi-instrumentalists and 4 puppeteers.
Yeah, it was surreal to say the least. As soon as they post the show, I'll link to it here.
In the meantime, here's some free live Beck tracks.
68 degrees on Dec. 1st and I'm on the edge of Western Civilization playing golf.
Click here to see a few pics from the course.
And check out this big drive from Todd...
| As promised... Live acoustic version of Lemonheads song "Stove." Performed at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, Ca. | |
The Lemonheads rocked the Troubadour last night. I've been going to Lemonheads/Evan Dando shows since high school and this was as good as I've ever seen.
I'll be posting a video from the show so stay tuned.
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The instant replay system was dealt another weird twist involving the Oregon Ducks on Saturday night.Down 28-3 to USC, Oregon backup quarterback Brady Leaf threw an apparent touchdown to Jonathan Stewart.
The play was reviewed in the booth, and the TD was overturned because the replay official ruled Stewart had stepped out of bounds before catching the ball inbounds.
Oregon coach Mike Bellotti then challenged the review call. After a second review, the replay ruling was overturned and the touchdown counted.
The second review found that the ball had been tipped after Stewart had stepped out and back in, making him eligible to catch the ball.
Dave Parry, the Big Ten supervisor of officials who helped the conference develop instant replay, said he was surprised to hear about the challenge of a reviewed call.
"That's the first time I've ever heard of it," Parry told CBS' Sportsline.com. "You're fortunate the score was lopsided. If it was 28-27, there'd be a lot of talk."
You may have noticed that I've changed things up a bit around here. I recently upgraded the Blogger software and I think this layout is a little more harmonious with seanrainer.com. I've got some more ideas for the place and some more work to share. Let me know what you think.
Oh, and by the way, MASTER BATTERS WIN AGAIN!
We had a great time at the engagement party the other night. We can't thank everyone enough for all they did to make it a special night. I hope everyone had as much fun as we did. Judging by the pictures, I'd say so.
If you took some pictures that night, please feel free to post them in the comments. Or email them to me and I'll post them up. THANKS!
If you're still using Internet Explorer, I IMPLORE you to try Firefox.
It's faster, more secure, and much easier to use. There will be a slight learning curve as you feel your way around "tab browsing"... but you'll get the hang of it quickly.
So go get it: Firefox 2.0
You'll thank me later.
Lemonheads fans REJOICE!
After a ten year hiatus The Lemonheads are back with a new album (that was released on my birthday), a new tour and a quirky new blog.
The album is imaginatively titled "The Lemonheads" and it authentically recreates that Dando alt-pop vibe without sounding dated. It's got some great grooves and catchy lyrics. Stand outs include "Become the Enemy" and "December" which opens:
"I'm not keeping up your part of the bargin.
As we all know a woman's will can harden."
Classic Dando.
Nobody is going to call this their best album, but for fans it's a great addition to the Lemonheads' canon.
They play the Troubadour in Los Angeles next month and I'll definitely be there. Join me won't you?
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Had a great time at the wedding. I didn't take that many pictures... too busy having a great time. But here's a gallery of a few good ones: Mort and Jenny Wedding
We'll be leaving tomorrow for Laguna Beach and the wedding of our good friends Jenny and Mort. A couple of months ago I did a photo shoot with the love birds. Here's some photos from that shoot.
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Here's my Flickr set of macro shots... more to come.
Just returned from our annual trip to Dunsmuir, Ca where I proposed to Chevas in front of these magical falls. More pictures from the trip coming soon.
UPDATE: See some pics here and let me know what you think.
Here's a gallery of photos I took for Las Vegas Choppers: http://picasaweb.google.com/seanrainer/VegasChoppers
It's been a busy couple of weeks since my last post. I'll try to catch up in the next couple of days but I wanted to get this up right away.
I took these pictures a few months ago and was excited to see them used in Image Magazine in an article focusing on Liberty Pacific Medical Group. They used 4 of my pictures in all. I like the big donut one the best. I actually had Amy levitate her feet for that for a little perspective. 
The Master Batters got a win on Monday. We always play to have fun (and not get hurt), but the beer at Schooners tastes so much better after a win.
This is the best picture I could get with my cell phone at the Rusted Root show. After almost getting my camera confiscated last time, I decided not to take the chance.
It was a great show and, as you can see, we were only about 4 people back from the stage.
Sacramento Trip
Kathy gets some relief from the triple digit temps at Folsom Lake.
Here's the run down from Chev's Birthday Weekend...
Thursday: Indigo Girls on the Santa Monica Pier at sunset. Chev loves them, I'm ok with them. But one thing's for sure: their live show is tremendous. A good warm up for the weekend.
Friday: Horse races at Hollywood Park - $1 dogs/$1 beers. Then the BIG surprise: Kerri D flies in from Nashville and surprises Chev at the track. Neil Diamond tribute band "SuperDiamond" and much debauchery follows.
Saturday: Beach Day. Beautiful day in the neighborhood and Chev's ex-roommate Jen surprises her on the beach. Then Saturday night we head to one of the most scenic restaurants in the city, Yomishiro's. Then we closed down Daddy's on Vine with a rousing game of "What else is Lisa's bra good for?"
Sunday: Start out the moring with brunch and World Cup Finals at Poncho's (penalty kicks??? That's like deciding the Super Bowl with field goals*). Then Sunday night we round out the weekend with an amazing, mind blowing, first row, within spitting distance show at the Fabulous Forum featuring Sonic Youth and PEARL JAM!!
Our friends Liz and G-Man got us the killer tickets and it was an unbelievable way to finish out the best birthday weekend ever. Pearl Jam absolutely BRINGS IT live. They played full tilt for over 2 1/2 hours.
Here's some more pics (all taken with Chev's new birthday camera). And here's LStott's gallery.
Much love to Kerri D and Randy for flying in; Jen for driving up from SD; LStott for helping pull it together; and everyone else who was apart of it.
So now the only question remains: how is Chev going to top this for MY birthday?
I'm back from Texas. The wedding was beautiful, the weather was not.
Typical Texas heat, thunderstorms and killer mosiquitoes. So I was actually relieved the ceremony was moved indoors. And the reception, of course, was a blast. The picture is of me singing Elton John's "Your Song" for my mom. I think she liked it.
More pics from the wedding weekend here.
I took this picture of Chev at the Jazz Fest last month in Sacramento. I entered it in a photo contest on the Wilco web site and, whaddaya know? It was picked as one of the winners. I'm not sure what we (my name is on there) get for winning, but the honor of being on the Wilco site is plenty.
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Immediately following the Master Batter's game tonight, I'll be leaving for Texas for my mom's wedding.
Of course, I will be heading directly to Chuy's to get my fill of this blog's name sake... creamy jalapeno.
I probably won't post until I get back but feel free to leave comments.
