But for me, those last couple of things were kind of my childhood experience with music along with the top 20 every weekend on the radio.

Bringing this home, the past year and a bit I’ve spent some time with some talented young musicians from Wentworth Music who are going to have an entirely different memory of music. Here are some of my favorites from their most recent concert (Kids Wanna Rock: A Tribute to Bryan Adams).

Pictures are still available for sale online as both prints and digital files and of course, the DVD from the show is now on sale! You can pick one up at the school. Talk about great childhood memories, this DVD is stellar!

Until next time,
Steve

UPDATED:

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This Saturday night is a big night for some 130 children, youth and adults from the Wentworth Music Education Centre. For some of them it will be their first time on stage, for others it will be one more performance done with excellence.

This is the third installment of the music series at the music centre, the first two being tributes to The Beatles and Queen. Both were unheralded successes and this show will have a lot to live up to.

This time the show is a tribute to KISS. Yes, Gene Simmons and company will be taking the stage in pint sized form but with all the glory of painted faces, leather and bedazzled jackets, boots and pants.

If rehearsals are any indication, this show is going to make you want to “Shout it out LOUD!”

Here are a few of my favorite details from the rehearsals.

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I’m blogging about them here because, well, this is my blog where you keep up with my photography and occasionally personally when they mix. I really do try to keep it all relevant for you and I might stretch it some today but that’s okay.

I had a few hours to kill today while the house we rent is being shown to realtors so I went out for coffee after dropping my wife off at a baby shower to go through my pictures from the last week and pick out some favorites. Well, I started but I didn’t get past the party pictures from my friend’s anniversary. Honestly, they aren’t the best pictures I’ve made and won’t win any awards, but that really isn’t what they were for. But these were still different.

Typically after a wedding I’ll sit with the pictures and go through them picking the good ones and my favorites in the exact same way. But something was different this time. I was actually reliving all the emotion over again from the night and it really made an impact on me. It’s not that I don’t relive a wedding and smile and get teary as I get to key moments, it’s just that this was something that I was part of. It was personal. I relived the moments like it was happening because there was a connection to what was happening at the moment for me.

It’s moments like this that I think help make me a better photographer. I understand all over again why I do what I do. I get a view into every couple’s and family’s heart when they sit and review pictures from a wedding. They relive each moment remembering and often re-experiencing the emotion as they did when the image was made.

Back when I was starting out another photographer explained to me just what it was that made a photograph special. It wasn’t about it being well composed, sharp and properly exposed. It wasn’t even about it being cool or having a wow factor. Those are important, but they aren’t it. It was about being able to take the person looking at it to the place in the photograph and letting them live or relive the moment. It’s what I did as I sat here going through the party pictures. 40 pictures and I looked at them for an hour before I even realized it. I was excited as we waited for them to arrive, I was teary as the arrived and we all yelled “Surprise!” and I was laughing all over again as we watched the slideshow their daughter made.

It was only after this I was able to go through and pick some favorites from the night and it was really, really hard! I guess now I know why some brides and families take the time they do to pick which pictures they want. They’re busy reliving the moments.

I have to mention the cake here somewhere and this is a good place. The cake was gorgeous and apparently delicious (I missed out due to various reasons). Find out more about getting a wonderfully beautiful and unique cake at www.vangiecakes.com.

With that, I’m off to continue and enjoy a lovely Kelowna day. Enjoy some of the moments…

Carrying on, they sat down across from us and we all quickly introduced ourselves to each other and we had even more fun. Turns out the two of them were stopping in town for a quick show at the Grateful Fed here and were planning on crashing at the Wal-Mart Inn (the parking lot for RV’s) for the weekend. They make up a band called Myztery and are really a cool couple.

Longer story shortened, throughout the conversation we of course talked about photography and they mentioned their lack of good photos they had. Well of course I offered and we had a quick shoot a couple days ago. It was laugh-filled especially when Peter wasn’t supposed to and ended in the best way possible. At the local coffee bar!

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After getting the headshots nailed at the house we headed to the a quiet beach in Kelowna for the fun shots. We spent quite a bit of time with the jump shot as it’s what I had in mind before we started everything. On top of avoiding the sticks and stones on the ground there was the elusive sun ducking in and out of clouds at the most inconvenient times.

In the end we came away with more than we set out for and all in all it was fun, successful and we made some wonderful pictures.

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Thanks Jay, we’ll do it again one day soon.

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They eventually forgot about me and just went for it.

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I can honestly say that I had more fun at this concert than I’ve had at many others. Others that are supposed to be professional musicians. No, really. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the night.

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