Yes, this is one of these posts. The ones where I preface my blog entry by apologizing for my absence and saying that it won’t happen again, but it’s bound to. At least I have a good excuse. For the past month now Ive been in Brasil with a 10-day visit to Africa. There are thousands of images that I have to mull through yet and I still have a week here in lovely Rio de Janeiro so hopefully I’ll get some more good images in. Once I get back stateside look forward to loads of updates and even more images from my month away.

Before I left on July 7th, I covered Warped Tour 2009 in Houston on the 3rd. It was probably the single worst Warped Tour experience out of all of the dozens Ive been to, but the few stand out performances made up for the day as a whole.

I haven’t been doing a lot of shooting recently so naturally yesterday’s all day extravaganza at the 2008 Warped Tour was a welcomed return to shooting stills. My buddy Cameron and I made the trek out to Sam Houston Race Park, a horse racing venue that has recently started holding concerts at its location. Cameron and I attended our first Warped Tour a decade ago in 1998. Time flies. This year was the first year that there lacked at least one good act that I really wanted to see. There were plenty of bands that I made a note of seeing and several new acts that I really enjoyed, but none of them I really told myself I just HAD to see prior to the show. Regardless of the lineup, the festival’s variety, always lends itself to good captures and this year was no different. I have gotten some nice stuff from years past, but I believe this year was my strongest shooting year thus far. I have grown a lot as a photographer and artist in the last year and I have seen the result over the past few hours editing the 1500 or so images from the day. It is also of note that this is the first event that I have edited entirely in Adobe Lightroom. It takes some getting used to but everything was done sans – Photoshop. I walked out with a hand full of good moments and a sunburn. All in a day’s work. I have included one of my favorite, more abstract, images from the day above.