Getting Down With the Garage Bands...

This was one of those assignments I was just hoping to get lucky with a decent shot quick. I had to shoot the second annual Garage Band Woodstock. My plan was to (hopefully) get two quick shots before heading across the street to shoot my next assignment. I knew one shot would be east enough, getting something of the bands. The other one I had in mind was people dancing. When I got there things had just started, and there weren't many folks on the dance floor, so I made sure to get my band shots out of the way. After that I just walked around observing the crowd, looking for something else. I wasn't seeing a whole lot from the crowd, then I checked back on the dance floor and saw the little kid getting down. Perfect. I kind of sat back shooting from afar not wanting to him to see me and possibly clam up. Then again, as much as he was into his dancing I don't think he would've noticed anything. I got my shots, got names and was out in time to get to my next assignment in time.

Garage Band Woodstock...

This was kind of a cool idea and shows exactly how influential social networking has become. A couple of months ago, some local folks decided to have a reunion of garage bands from their days in high school in the 60's. The organizers put it up on many of their reunion pages on Facebook and it pretty much blew up in popularity. It was a pretty cool way of showing just how influential social networking sites can be. The organizer told me they were hoping to get 400 people there so they could break even and ended up nearly selling out the place.