Boston + New England Wedding Photographer » music http://katemcelweeblog.com Kate McElwee Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:05:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Live: N.A.S.A. and Staxx Brothers at Nectar http://katemcelweeblog.com/2009/03/04/nasa-and-staxx-nectar/ http://katemcelweeblog.com/2009/03/04/nasa-and-staxx-nectar/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:01:37 +0000 Kate http://katemcelweeblog.com/?p=1547 Last night I had a special treat: photographing the awesomely cool N.A.S.A. at Nectar in Fremont.  I’ll let you read Sara Brickner’s review for Seattle Weekly, but I must say this: I thought Staxx Brothers were super fun (Sara was right about the crowd loving ‘em) and N.A.S.A. rocked my world.  It was hard getting clean shots when I was dancing like a crazy thing and giggling at the half-naked dancing girls and their monster friends …  Not to mention that my D300 is not really equipped to see in the dark … But you’ll have to read the review and check out the slideshow of the rest of my pics to see what I’m talking about.  Here’s a little teaser for now though.

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I wanted to create images that would give Jordan a different edge, and yet reflect both where he’s coming from and where he’s going.  We had a ton of fun playing around in Greenlake and on First Hill, and apart from a very sad story about a bashed-up $4k guitar (!) it was a hugely successful day.  Special thanks to Christine, Jordan’s super-star wife, stylist and all-around fun lady for her help.  Go check out Jordan’s music via his website (coming very soon now that he has some photos!) or on the Striking Back MySpace page.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full-size images … then browse the gallery using the arrow keys.

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