I managed to pull and tweak 65 decent photographs, roughly one of every ten frames that I shot. I won't post them all on KintlaLake Blog, of course, but it's a pretty respectable ratio.
A few of the best were unplanned, anything but deliberate, arguably even accidental. Here's an example, previously posted on Sunday.
(McGuffey Lane)
I grabbed that image as I dashed from one wing to the other while headliner McGuffey Lane paused between songs. Something about the shadows caught my eye, so I turned off the flash, raised the camera to my chest (I didn't take the time to sight through the viewfinder), banged off two shots and moved on. For a what-the-hell photo, the result surprised me.
I love the challenges of concert photography -- moving subjects and rapidly changing lighting, to name just two. I'll close this post with a pair of images illustrating what can happen when the curse of unpredictability becomes a photographic blessing.
(Guest artist Delyn Christian performing "Long-Haired Country Boy")
(Molly Pauken of McGuffey Lane & the Jonalee White band)
