Rogue Swan – A Very 70s Dance Party… 1
Rogue Swan’s “Very 70s Dance Party” at the Vandiver in town was a tricksy shoot. Lots of motion, very little light and a shortage of shooting angle. But it was fun. I had to trust the auto-eye focus most of the time. Exposure iso ranged from 12,800 to maybe...
Rosie Jack and the Bangtails at Tytings Park-2…
These are the rest of the images that I did manage to get, and work up. It was our anniversary and we held the work level down to enjoyable level. The Bangtails are always fun, and always different – yet ever with that Rosie Jack feel to their music. Plus,...
Rosie Jack and the Bangtails at Tytings Park…
The first four images from the Tyding Park performance of Rosie Jack and the Bangtails. One heck of a turnout – though we had to endure the embarrassment of having to dance by ourselves to a song dedicated to our anniversary that evening. Birthdays and anniversaries...
Rosie Jack and the Bangtails - zine
The other half of my recent experiment with what I call mini-zines. This is an 8.5 inch square, 28 page (100lb stock) collection of some of our favorite Rosie Jack exposures – gleaned from performances at McGregors and the Vandiver. There are only 21 of...
Hushdown mini-zine…
OK, it isn’t as mini as a lot of zines that photographers put out, but it is mini for me: 8.5x8.5 inches and 28 100lb pages. These are my favorite Hushdown images – most are somewhere here in past postings (non print versions) . Out of a very small printing...
First Friday is a participation event …
First Friday in Havre de Grace is a very much a crowd participation event. In this posting I’m showing four of those many attending who were joining in. The intro shot shows a very cool looking lady enjoying matching her drum beat to the rest of the circle....
First Friday in June – Kids Join the Adults in the Drum Circle 2
I really love this pair of shots – both these kids were really getting into it – in their own styles. Sometimes it’s difficult to leave watching the drum circle, but things to do and see…
Click HERE for the First Friday Folio, where images can be...
First Friday in June – Kids Join the Adults in the Drum Circle 1
The stead, rhythmic beat of many drums, provides a beating heart for First Fridays. When the kids join it, it all becomes fascinating. Those images are one of my favorite collections – along with some of grown kids. This time around I capturedred five, two...
First Friday in May – Drum Circle
A little slow on this one, so many distractions (that simply had to be addressed. We attended the first First Friday of the year, for which the weather just managed to allow. We had to leave early, but had to spend what time we had at the Drum Circle focusing...
Fun treatment of a Hushdown shot…
A few days ago I had an hour to kill while making our wheat bread – you can’t go too far from the kitchen at that point. I spent it playing around with a more graphic treatment of a standing shot of local rock group The Hushdown. They use the seated version...
How to…… make a quality Book-Zine
Why Zine, not book…
You really want a book / but printing costs are prohibitive. I've done a few through on-line printers (small volume orders) and was never all that happy with them anyway. One I had printed by a local printer who let me supervise...
Godspell
GODSPELL – performed at Holy Communion Lutheran Church, directed by Jarett Rettman, August 2025. Not actually in town, but featrued a good number of locals. A one performance event. Just a few shots from the show taken for friends… I realize I was slow getting...
Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla 2026 – Azyra Izel
Finishing with a little bit of a punch. Azyra performed in one of the first Haflas, in the Opera House Black-Box room. Boy was that a crowded setup. She’s back and hasn’t lost her way with the camera. Admittedly I was a little uncomfortable with the theme...
Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla 2026 – April Monique
I held off working on April Monique’s set of images until late in the postings for a couple of reasons – April manages the shows and is always anxious to see everyone who performs to get their pictures posted, and I like to approach the end with shots of...
Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla 2026 – Rainbow Body Arts & Kaimeria
Getting near the end, just two more postings after this. These were a little tougher in that I had to fight worse shadows than on most for some reason. Best is simply to diminish them as much as possible – elimimation causing more issues than it solves....
Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla 2026 – Blue Lapis and Silk & Rachel Martin
Just a reminder, all of these go into the Folio for the show, linked below. There they are a little larger and easier to download. Also, anyone portrayed can always have a full size file simply by sending a request – Ill send a link to the file. The opening...
Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla 2026 – Zora and Jacqui
Zora was interesting in that she’s the first Hafla performer that I’ve seen sing her own musical accompaniment. Kinda cool, if a little rough on me. She wore one of those old, almost as large as a baseball, black mics. Getting rid of that thing, on all three...
Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla 2026 – Lena Mae and Bellina
One thing I have to admit about shooting a Hafla at the new rejuvenated State Theatre is that thank goodness it’s not the Star Centre. The State doesn’t have all those lights and feedback speakers across the front of the stage – blocking feet and forcing...
Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla 2026 – Kimala Nar
I love the intro shot of Kimala here – her expression is wonderful. On one hand, while I’m shooting I really can’t pay much attention to the flow of the performance, but in my exposures I get to see what the eye can easily miss. My one constant worry is...
Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla 2026 – Lorelei
Lorelei’s performance was quite active, lots of opportunity to catch slight edge-blur movement that I like so much. She made me decide to do something about the whole heavy lens hand held thing, expecially with verticals. When zoomed close enough there is...
Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla 2026 – Moonshine Troupe
Short, second posting today. Just one shot of April Monique’s Moonshine Troupe, her bellydance students. When one has a shot this good, this much fun, you don’t bother with more. It says it all. They all flowed together at the end for a well choreographed...
Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla 2026 – Kalayla
Kalayla is another one of the regulars. However this show was a little more frustrating to shoot – she performed the first half of her set facing away from the front of the stage. Then, when she turned around, I had time to grab one transition shot before...
Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla 2026 – Naimah
The Moonshine Mardi Gras Hafla was held at the renovated State Theatre this year – and attracted a pretty good crowd. That was even though it was fast approaching 8 degrees Fahrenheit outside. I’ve given the color jpegs over on Flickr to the dancers. Bellydance...
Something Wicked – Rogue Swan Theatre Co 2025 pdf eBook…
This is the free pdf eBook version, includes all my favorite shots from the performance. Since this is a pretty large collection, even the optimized file is pretty large – so I am posting the file in two sizes. The main one is labeled (Med) and is about...
Something Wicked - Rogue Swan Theatre Co 2025 video…
The Something Wicked - Rogue Swan Theatre Co. 2025 video is on YouTube. You can access it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL3iZG9TGHU or from the Rogue Swan page on this site. Temporarily I will keep it on the home page. The pdf eBook will be up shortly....
Scottish Pub Night with Rogue Swan – at the Vandiver: annual Bonnie Knees contest and more performance shots…
Finishing this up in order to get to posting the October Vaudeville pdf eBook and video slide show – next. OK, the annual Havre de Grace Bonnie Knees competition is more of a Knobby Knees show, but it’s fun. The winner of this one was Kirk, the felow on...
Scottish Pub Night with Rogue Swan – at the Vandiver: a few singles…
These individual close-ups are a fun challenge. But they do sport possibly over-smoothing of faces due to the process of bringing in details and structure when shooting in low to no light at 1/250 of a second. The intro shot shows Amy on violin. She sings...
Scottish Pub Night with Rogue Swan – at the Vandiver
Rogue Swan at the Vandiver pretty much always sells out. It was a fun evening, complete with the local Bonnie Knees competition (those pictures come later). Since this show featured a new, young member on drums – Gabriel Fazzino – I decided to start with...
Rosie Jack and the Bangtails – Christmas at the Vandiver III
Rosie Jack is a sepearat entity, but made up of Rogue Swan members. We try to attend most of their performances, partly because they are fun and there is an opportunity to dance with my sweetie. Not all that much opportunity for pictures, but it IS just...
Rosie Jack and the Bangtails – Christmas at the Vandiver II
Well, this was going to be just two postings but has turned into three. I need to include a few cool shots of Rogue connected people in the audience – I’m tagging those on at or near the end of the postings. Most this time are a little brighter, barely....
Rosie Jack and the Bangtails – Christmas at the Vandiver I
The Vandiver has the advantage of being, for the audience, a great place for these shows. Plenty of room for dancing and good food. It also has the disadvantage of being a very awkward venue for getting shots of the the Bangtails. What light there is is...
"Something Wicked – am umexpected image / Dand and the Spell Book…
Slow slogging putting the book together – the best Vaudeville yet, both to experience and for the pictures. While working on Jabberwokie I was reviewing the exposures and couldn’t figure out how I missed this one – right at the intro for the number, Dane...
