I woke up that morning (after two hours’ sleep) freaking out scared that I wouldn’t get a jumping-in-front-of-the-sign shot of The Hives. Even before I was scheduled to shoot them, I’d been afraid for months that I one day might and would hate myself if I didn’t get it.

It took me ’til the last jump of the third song to get it, too. Phew. It’s hardly the best picture ever, but it exists. Personal goals: I haz, and I doez.

I like this one much more, though:

Not very good picture from Street Scene for NME.com.

Really, really good new song on Prefix — “My Piano“.

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Justice are a challenge to photograph, because they basically stand with only the tops of their little French heads visible.

Throw in a stage that’s six feet off the ground, photographers who are climbing on things in front of everyone else and then holding their cameras as high as they can above their heads, and a bunch of crazy dancing girlies who busted their way into the pit somehow… it was a laugh.

The only way to get a clear-ish shot was to go behind the stage. Oh well. The loos are cleaner back there, anyway.

Dengue Fever are fun. They sound like this:

(That would be a scene from Naughy Bodies Be Good, obviously.)

The Zarabanda Stage at Street Scene had very… disco lighting. I think I like it.

(The photo goes with Laura’s story on NME.com)

I like meeting other photographers. I learn a lot from talking to them or just watching them, of course, because even though I started doing this 12 years ago I didn’t really think much about it until this year.

It’s fantastically educational to be surrounded by people who are better prepared than me. At Street Scene in San Diego, for example, I learned that smart photographers carry little steps to stand on when confronted by a stage that’s six feet off the ground. Plus, it’s fun to chit chat about crazy contracts and have company when trying not to laugh too hard at security.