One of the great things about year-end retrospectives is that they give you a great excuse to bust out all those odds and sods that may not have found a proper home during the preceding 11-plus months.
I’ve only been shooting rock shows for about three years now, but a combination of dynamic subjects, an innate knowledge of my very low-budget camera setup’s strengths and weaknesses, and dumb luck enabled me to snag a few good rock shots in 2012. Some of the photos ended up here at the SunBreak, or elsewhere. But there were plenty of leftovers. And they were pretty good leftovers.
Some of them came from shows I never got a chance to write about. Others sprang from a surplus of shots that I really liked, from shows I’d already covered. But I sorta fell in love with all of the enclosed pics, for all sorts of reasons–whether they captured the subject’s personality, sported colors and composition that grabbed my eye, or just conveyed the energy of the moment despite/because of their imperfections.
Needless to say, this isn’t some grand, overarching year-end summary of live music in Seattle. It’s just a lot of musical lightning captured in a bottle. Happy Holidays, everyone.