The Unplugged Blog is One Year Old!

A year ago today I started The Unplugged Blog as a quick way to talk about and share the images I had recently captured.  My first blog post shared some images from the Lewis Watson gig at the Exeter Phoenix - you can read it here.

One year and 24 blog posts later I've shared images from The South, The Boomtown Rats, Europe, Grandmaster Flash and UB40!  It's been a blast.

For those who read my blog on a regular basis you'll know that I like to share my images as soon as I can.  And while I will post images direct and live from a gig on my Twitter feed, you can't beat the quality of a fully processed image from the computer.  So when I get back from a gig the first thing I do is catalog and select my best images.  I will then normally select one or two of my best images from the shoot to share on my blog.  It's important to share some images while the gig is still fresh in everyone's mind!

So to celebrate The Unplugged Blog's first birthday I've collated a selection of some of my favorite images.  Not only are there images from previous blog posts but I've included some images from gigs before I'd even started the blog.  So have a good look through and you might see some images previously unshared!

I hope you enjoyed this selection of images, I certainly enjoyed taking them.  Remember to keep checking my Twitter feed and The Unplugged Blog for all the latest images!

See you next time!

In The Garden

In The Garden had all the elements of an epic night.  A great Exeter city centre location, nice weather (for September), a quality line up of artists and 4500 tickets sold.  So when I was asked by Hold It Down to cover Exeter's biggest ever music festival with MusicMuso I didn't need to be asked twice!

As usual on The Unplugged Blog I'm going to let my images do the talking and I'll leave my friends over at MusicMuso to wax lyrical about the event (a full review will be on their website really soon).  But one thing I can say is that the packed out crowd had an awesome night and were treated to some of the UKs finest musical talent.  

Here, let me show you...

As you can see it was a bit of an epic night and it was a lot of fun to shoot.  It's always good fun at the festivals as you get to photograph artists on a big stage and the crowd enjoying themselves.

Well, that's about it from me.  Keep an eye out on my Twitter feed and this blog for a very special post that I'll be making this week.  I'm also shooting the Bluetones this Sunday night in Bristol, so you can see some images from that gig both on my Twitter feed and here on the blog.

On a technical note....

As regular readers will know I like to tweet images live from the gig to my Twitter feed.  I had some real issues with this on Saturday night though.  In certain locations around the In The Garden event my tablet struggled to maintain its WiFi connection to my camera.  As you can imagine this made tweeting images rather difficult!  I'm not sure what the issue was as my workflow is normally rock solid in the field (including other festivals).  It could have been the density of people (and mobile phones), or the radio transmitters that had been installed.  I'm not sure which it was, but something I'll need to be aware of for next time!

See you next time...