photography


21
Aug 08

Barack Obama on the USS Arizona

Barack Obama on the USS Arizona Recently (August 2nd) i had my wedding, and my wife & I headed to Hawaii for an epic 2 week honeymoon. We spent the tail end of our honeymoon on the island of Oahu, where Honolulu is. One afternoon we were driving back to Honolulu and we decided we would go check out Pearl Harbor.

Meanwhile, unbeknown to us, Barack Obama was also touring around Oahu with his wife, 2 daughters & some family friends and was also heading to Pearl Harbor at the same time as us.

After watching the movie that documents the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor (which was very good by the way), our group of appx 50 tourists hopped on a small ferry and headed over the the USS Arizona memorial. When we arrived my wife & I noticed some cameramen with professional looking gear kinda of meandering around, and we figured they must just be shooting a documentary or something.

When we realized it was Barack Obama it was pretty distracting as you can imagine, here we were on this important historical memorial and then this guy shows up. I took a few shots with my trusty rebel XT, kind of wish i took more in retrospect. You can check out the pictures i managed to get here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dschultz/tags/barackobama/


8
Apr 08

Concert Review: Victor Wooten @ Lee’s Palace


I think i was in grade 11 when i fell in love with bass guitar. A friend of mine introduced me to Blood Sugar Sex Magik on a school bus trip and that pretty much changed my life. I remember scrounging up the $30 or so to buy the bass guitar songbook for that album, borrowing a bass for the summer and teaching myself how to play.

I immediately got into all the bass virtuosos, including Victor Wooten – who is probably most well known for his work with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. He is also probably the most impressive slap bass player i have ever heard, thanks to his mind boggling use of harmonics & ‘double thumbing’ technique .

Last night i had the opportunity to check him out @ Lee’s Palace in Toronto and was completely blown away (no big surprise there). Lots of great funk/soul jams and some seriously inspiring solos. I definitely want to start using some of his bass tricks in my own playing if i can.

I brought my SLR camera down and took some shots of the show – check them out here.


7
Jan 08

Anthony Giles

Yesterday i did some photography for an old friend of mine Anthony Giles. He’s an up & coming jazz/fusion drummer from the GTA, and is recording a solo project @ Metalworks studios in Mississauga. If you want to hear some of his other stuff you can check it out on his myspace page. Anthony & I played in a band together many years ago.

Anthony Giles