Deftones

7/6/2017, Concord Pavilion, Concord

Clutch

Empire of the Sun

8/12/2017, Outside Lands Festival, San Francisco I was lucky enough to be called again to shoot Outside Lands Festival in Golden Gate park in San Francisco. Being a house photographer allows us some more access to the performances than we usually get. You get to stay longer in the photo pit and with some performances, you get to shoot from the stage also. This allows you to get more angles to the show and you get to capture moments that other photographers don't necessarily get to shoot. Working on a festival is physically demanding. During the 3 day festival, I walked more than 30 miles over more than 25 hours. The good part of this festival is that I get to go home every night and since I was shooting for the festival, we had editors on site and I didn't have to stay up all night to edit and submit my photos.

ZZ Top

Billy Idol

3/8/2010 Palace of FIne Arts, San Francisco Two firsts on the same night. I have never shot at Palace of FIne Arts and this was my first time seeing Billy Idol with a camera on me. Billy was performing with just his guitarists Steve Stevens and the show was awesoem. Billy talked a lot between the songs and even thought the venue is quite big the night had an intimate feeling to it. It was great to cross one more big name form my photography bucket list.

New Kids On The Block

Starset

In This Moment

Korn

Children of Bodom

12/5/2016 Regency Ballroom, San Francisco

TV on the Radio

Rivers Cuomo, Weezer

4/1/2019 Oracle Arena, Oakland

Poison

Panic! At the Disco

Joe Duplantier, Gojira

10/7/2016, The Warfield, San Francisco

Rise Against

7/6/2017, Concord Pavilion, Concord

John Mayer

7/29/2018, Shoreline, Mt. View

Pearl Jam

Insomnium

9/14/2017, UC Theater, Berkeley I met up with my friends from Insomnium at Berkeley, got to hang out with the guys for a while and shoot the show. They are on US & Canada tour with Epica, Laguna Coil and Elantris and stopper at UC Theater in Berkeley. The light wasn't very good, but the black and white treatment of the photos actually suits their latest album, Winters Gate, visually.

Rudolf Schenker, Scorpions

10/4/2017, Oracle Arena, Oakland

Rancid

8/20/2017, Greek Theater, Berkeley

Robby Takac, Goo Goo Dolls

7/14/2017, Shoreline Amphitheater, Mt VIew

M.I.A

M.I.A, Live 105 BFD, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mt View

 I was shooting 10th annual Live 105 BFD at Mt View and got to shoot M.I.A very close up. The photo pit is right up to the stage and the stage is relatively slow so us photographers are literally on the stage when shooting. It was a tough day with 17 bands to shoot and I still missed all the action on the Local Band Stage. Festivals like this are great to get a lot of big names in, but for wire photographer like me it's a long day. I left home around 10AM and was back around 10PM. After this I have to edit photos within 12 hours and upload to wire service. I got around 150 photos edited and uploaded by 2AM, just in time to go and sleep a little.

Marilyn Manson

10/24/2015 Aftershock Festival, Sacramento Marilyn manson has been a stable performer in the metal curcuit for quite a while now. He's still a big draw and this was my first time seeing and shooting him. He performed on the first night of Aftershock festival in Sacramento. The performance was towards the end of a long day and the heat, dust and walking definitely tested the stamina of all photographers. I managed to shoot 10 bands on the first day and with some problems with internet access in the hotel only managed to get to sleep around 3 in the morning. I still wouldn't change this job for anything!

Wolfmother

Billy Corgan

3/26/2016, SF Masonic, San Francisco The show was supposedly Smashing Pumpkin show, but for the first 3 songs that photographers were allowed to shoot it was Billy Gorgan show. He stood in the middle of a beautiful stage and delivered acoustic versions of Smashing Pumpkins classics. All the photographers were also pinned against the back wall and I was happy to have brought my 70-200 and 1.4x extender.

Neurosis

Butcher Babies

Kerry King

Kerry King of Slayer, San Jose State Event Center, San Jose, 10/31/2013 Slayer has been one of the most influencial bands in my and other metalheads lifes. This is actually my first time seeing them live and had the privilege to shoot them also. Slayer was on tour with 4arm and Gojira, also my favorites and I just couldn't let this opportunity go by. The lighting was challenging but I managed to get few decent shots of all bands.

DNCE

1/22/2017 The Fillmore, San Francisco

Troy Sanders, Mastodon

10/21/2017, Aftershock Festival, Sacramento

Another year of metal in Sacramento. Aftershock is always my last festival for the year and it keeps getting better every year. This time around the bain acts were Nine Inch Nails and Ozzy Osbourne. Unfortunately as I shoot for wire service, I could't shoot the main acts, but there were plenty of awesomeness to go around. My personalo favorites this year were Mastodon, Gojira, Halestorm and Black Map

Black Veil Brides

Papa Emeritus III

10/23/2015 The Warfield, San Francisco Swedish Ghost has one of the best concepts in metal nowadays. Npbody really knows who's in the band, though the identity of Papa Emeritus III has been leaked, the's probably going to be replaced for the next album. With a strong concept you can build strong visuals. Surprisingly the band hasn't gotten more poshbackon their controversial material.

Cradle of Filth

Halestorm

Zakk Wylde

8/30/2016, Regency Ballroom, San Francisco

Fitz and The Tantrums

Veil of Maya

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Joey Santiago, Pixies

4/1/2019 Oracle Arena, Oakland