Joe on Vocals and Guitar

During my stay in CT, my son told me that he had to play in an emergency and was very sorry. It seems that another band that went on to play for them when Joe (my son) was sick had a death in one of the players families, so they had to return the favor.

Sorry... I was elated! I have only seen them play twice before other than practice, and was anxious to hear them play again. Well, they ROCKED the house.

This is my son, Joe, who plays rhythm guitar, keyboards, harmonica and vocals. He also writes music and lyrics. During this song, he's showing how tired he was. He really didn't want to do this gig, but he made the best of it, and in the end we all had a great time.

Keyboards

This was taken during my visit to CT 3 weeks ago. It is actually a close-up of my son's fingers playing keyboards during practice.

He hasn't seen this one yet, but I plan to publish it to his website once I'm done with all the photos I took in CT, MA and NY on my vacation.

I really like the way this one turned out. I did something similar last year, but this one is much better (at least in my opinion).

I've been thinking about doing a musician's series, or maybe just a music series of digitally enhanced images I've taken through the years. I have many I've done at my son's band's practices. I'll just see what I can come up with.

Bass Player

While I was in CT in January, I wanted to photograph my son's band, Scissor Runners. They were in need of new photos and it would've been perfect if it wasn't for the weather.

This technique is something I wanted to try with them, but finding graffiti in 11º F weather and asking them to sit for a photo, just wasn't feasible.

I ended up taking the photos in the Bass Player's basement during one of their practices. Once home, I had to figure out how to move a photo of the Bass Player, Ricky Fournier, onto another photo of some graffiti I took in Ybor City, then apply the gritty effect.

I really like how this one came out. I'm waiting to see if he likes it. Ricky, what do you think?