Sunday, December 25, 2011

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas!





Moving On

It's time to move on from mistakes, and start fresh and better in the new year. Last shots on Thursday night was the best. It's a sign to move onto a better crowd :)

Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever

Aveira Skies

Aveira Skies

Anchored

Anchored


Chapter one has finally ended, it's now time to begin the second part to the story of live music photography. Thank you to everyone who has helped me out, and for those who haven't, I hope you wished you never got rid of someone like me.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Am I Still Dreaming?

One month since I started to take this seriously, 63 Likes, Taken snaps of 9 great bands including Heroes for Hire and Know Your Knot, & already have 5 bands booked in!


Rusty Smith, Mayhem Addition

Mattersville

Know Your Knot

Skinny, Sail On! Sail On!

Monuments

Know Your Knot [26.11.11]

Heroes for Hire [26.11.11]


Feeling so blessed for this dream to become a reality. Thank you to all the bands for helping me achieve this, giving my life a purpose, giving me the opportunity to support the music I love and breathe.

Monday, October 24, 2011

JTIONOWIDJAJA PHOTOGRAPHY


Alright, I'm trying not to get too excited about starting this up, because the last thing I want is to expect too much out of it. But talking to an inspiration of this field the other day, made me realize how possible this all became to me. It was about learning and getting the ropes on a business. I'm not one of knowing anything about businesses, but I know feeling inspired and motivated was the best place to start in this! I'm going to take this slow, and hopefully once I've got a more dynamic range of images in my portfolio, I can share it with people who can appreciate my work. Getting offered to contribute to an online music magazine to the genre that I love and breathe, is easily the most uplifting things that has happened to me this month! Hopefully I can use it well in the next two months, getting access to shoot photos at gigs that I normally wish I could go to alone is the perfect way to improve my skills but meet a whole bunch of new exciting people. Concert Photography is on it's way. But so is the opportunity to expand this photography to wherever I want to go!

JTIONOWIDJAJA PHOTOGRAPHY is starting, and I wanted to save this printscreen to see how it all started. Thanks for reading. x

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Tonight Alive

On the 18th October 2011, I drove straight from work to YMCA HQ Leederville to see 10PAST6, Monuments, Rufio and Tonight Alive. It was the first time I decided to bring my DSLR to a concert, and I don't regret it for a moment. Remembering the moments through a snapshot is just as amazing as recording a whole concert. Unfortunately I only had the option of standing on one side, covered by some bystanders seeing as I hadn't considered myself a professional. But after taking these shots tonight, without editing, and also having Jenna McDougall (Singer of Tonight Alive) tell me that my photos looked great.

Reason To Sing
Whakaio

Hold On Tight
Big Beats & Bass
Jenna McDougall
Let It Land
What Are You So Scared Of?
To Die For..
Starlight
Judgement, is what we've learned to see.

Best feedback about band photography is when their singer says this. Thank you Jenna.

 Watch this space. For now, what a way to start off my dream to being a Live Music Photographer.

x

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Last One Standing


This one received my first complimentary comment on Flickr. It deserves it's own entry to remember this moment! Thank you so much for supporting my photography. It means the world to me :) x

Caleb's First Birthday

I'm slowly starting to spread special moments through my work. It's a nerve racking process, as I bite my tongue to what others will think of it. But after being invited to my cousin's boy's first birthday, and asking specifically for me and my camera, I have never felt as honoured.





Here's my Flickr. I hope you enjoy the portfolio that will continue to grow and hopefully improve :) 
Happy Birthday Baby Caleb x

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Cumulus Cloudscape

Whenever I get the chance to take my camera out, it has given me so many opportunities to remember the beautiful moments and scenery of this life. Clouds have been the reason for my love to landscape photography, the colours, depth, shape, shadow and power it gives even though it moves so slow it seems so still, yet it can cause the most horrific events.  Saturday Midday I walked to Point Walter with my Canon 600D & EF 10-22mm to take these photos. 

Moving Still

Cumulus Congestus

Road To Nowhere

Calm before the Storm

Hope you enjoyed my October walk, and hope to take more when I get the chance. x

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Let The Music Play

2004 was one of the biggest turning points in my life, I started to listen to rock music. The tattoos, eccentric hair, frowning faces and piercings used to scare me because I was 14 and went to an all girls Catholic school, anything more than a short skirt was too overwhelming for me to handle. Secret's out. Good Charlotte was the first band I listened to, and they showed me the beauty of hurt and love connected through music and lyrics. So I searched for more bands, bought their CDs, put them into my walkman and listened to them until my heart was about to implode with a sense of purity and satisfaction. I grew up, and I could finally go to concerts without bringing my dad. By 2007, I was in love with the genre and with the bands I started to grow up with, the unsigned labels, the new & young bands taking a leap of faith to achieve their dreams. Lyrics started to seem more real, like they knew exactly how I felt at times and knew the perfect way to express it. Melodies and instrumentals collaborated to create a completely novel colour to an emotion, a situation or of life itself. From what I have heard, no other genre of sound can connect to me like this one does. Going to concerts, meeting with members of bands who wrote music to get me through a break up, a break down or a moment of any kind, has been amazing and no words could explain the feeling. It's unbelievable with how many other people out there experience music the way I do, and thought I was an unusual person to love music the way I do. Finding new music or new bands that are perfect in every shape and form can easily become the happiest moment in my life. It's like finding a treasure or a diamond in the rough. Music has shaped me in every way possible, and it continues to help me grow and teach me new things just by being there for me. Music has been my escape, my love, my life, my heart, my everything and I'm so grateful to have found it, because now I won't be able to live without it. And to love something that much, is worth everything I am.

This was before I had a digital compact camera, it was the best concert I have ever been to. Good Charlotte [17 Oct 2007]
Paramore was amazing. Hayley Williams is just inspiring. [10 Oct 2010]
Went to watch Valencia twice in one day. There was pretty much only 40-50 people in the crowd, so I got to hi5 and hug Brendan and George after the show. They are so down to earth. [21 Nov 2010]
We The Kings [07 March 2011]
Mayday Parade were so mind blowing LIVE, and Derek was the most sincere musician I have ever met. [03 March 2011]
Every Avenue
Every Avenue was also really good LIVE, he has amazing vocals, and again only 50 people in the crowd [03 March 2011]
ADTR was unexpectedly really well performed with a lot of circus acts to keep us entertained [08 May 2011]
Boyce Avenue, better quality than youtube, but didn't play for long enough. All in all, it was a great night. [23 August 2011]
I know these photos aren't the best, but thanks to my Canon IXUS 80, they had to survive the mosh pit and my over excitement. Music has been and will always be my everything, I'm even beaming with happiness just to share with you about how much it really means to me.  

"When I'm hanging by a thread, & I've got nothing to give. Let the music play."- Good Charlotte