New York blues rock band Alberta Cross photographed at All Points West music festival in Liberty State Park, NJ.

Your Vegas photographed at the All Points West music festival in Liberty State Park, NJ. I've had the pleasure of seeing Leeds transplants Your Vegas three times now and, I must say, the band keeps growing on me.

Shooting backstage portraits at a three day festival like All Points West could be an entire day's work. Even though I was running between stages, I was able to catch up with a few artists during moments of downtime.

Exit 105 at the 2008 All Points West Festival, Liberty State Park, NJ.

Lily Holbrook kicked off a great day of music Saturday at the All Points West Festival at Liberty State Park, NJ.

When I'm not furiously editing live shots from last night's gig, I'm eating, sleeping and setting up promotional shoots for sickeningly talented individuals like Arthur Lewis.

I learned in a flurry of emails today that the parents of fellow Prefix photographer, Lori Baily, were murdered in their Nebraska home this weekend. Over the past year, I've had the pleasure of sharing numerous assignments and photo pits with Lori and I am incredibly saddened by this tragic news.

I sat down with the fabulous Amanda Ameer over at Life's a Pitch, and talked her ear off about shooting shows, how to find a good live music photographer and what's up with marketing classical music these days. I think it's a decent read.

The August issue of Spin just hit newsstands with a two-page image of Lil Wayne I took last month at Hot 97 Summer Jam at Giants Stadium. If you pick one up, check out the first page after the masthead. I'm psyched! Shoutouts \m/\m/ to Jason "eagle eyes" Bergman who let me know this went to print.

July 18, 2008 - In an event co-presented by Celebrate Brooklyn, the Metropolis Ensemble played a steamy (but nonetheless enjoyable) neighborhood show at the latest installment of the Wordless Music series.