I am pleased to say that 6 of my photos from this year's Pender Harbour Blues Festival were published in the local papers last week. Two in The Local, four in the Coast Reporter. [flickr]photo:2585530893[/flickr] [flickr]photo:2585529413[/flickr] Great to see, especially the Coast Reporter article which appeared on the front page of their Arts & Entertainment section. In fact the full page is the article and photos (less the ads at the bottom). Kudos to Carole Rubin for writing a nice article and requesting my photos for submission! Also 'grats out to my brother, Chris Andersen, for writing the article in the Local. Nice job considering you were running on about 2 hours sleep after, oh I don't know, putting together the entire festival. I hope to do a lot more of these, of course, including the Pender Harbour Jazz Festival in September. Should be a blast.

I had the privilege of being asked by my brother Chris to come shoot the Pender Harbour Blues Festival this last weekend.  He is the recently appointed President of the PH Blues Society and put together an awesome lineup for this year's event. I came over on the ferry Friday afternoon, checked in to the Sunshine Coast Resort (very nice place, btw) and then headed to the Backeddy Pub to meet up with Chris and the first act.  Bradley & McGillivray were performing, backed up by Chris and Pat Haavisto as the rythym section and accompanied by special guest Murray Porter.  Chris introduced me to everyone which was great and made me relax a bit.  This was the first night, first session of shooting for me, so I brought two bodies and two lenses to be sure I could be flexible.  The D300 had my spanky new 50mm f/1.8 (the bargain of the century, imho) and the D70 had my trusty 18-200 VR for the wide shots. [flickr]photo:2569419017[/flickr]  Lighting was, well, horrible.  The beginning of the set was partially lit by daylight but of course that meant wacky white balance... then later it was dark outside and almost as dark inside ;).  It was ...