I got into Automatic Loveletter the way most people did—All Time Low’s Remembering Sunday. I checked out their first two EPs and fell in love, especially with August 28th, 2am. August 28th is my birthday (and thus the best day in the universe) so that song makes me extra happy. Their new album Truth or Dare is amazing and I was excited to see them live for the first time as well as getting to shoot them because I’d heard how amazing Juliet’s stage presence is and I was NOT disappointed. Also, I really, really dig the tattoo on Juliet’s thigh, so there’s a random artsy picture of that in there. Make sure you check out Truth or Dare and if you’re at Warped, check them out, too!











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This summer has just been jam packed with me getting to shoot so many bands that I’ve loved since late high school/freshman year of college and getting to shoot AAR (especially when they played Swing, Swing) took me back to the summer I spent in New York with Valentina and all of my friends in the old Michelle Branch crew. It was so awesome, now I feel like there’s only a few bands left from High School and Fordham that I haven’t shot yet—one of which is happening in September! It was so awesome to get to see and shoot All American Rejects!!









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Oh Hey Monday. I always have SO much fun shooting these guys, the past two years have absolutely flown by and this August they’ll be putting out their new album in August (8/17!) called Beneath it All. It was nice hearing them play some new songs and getting to shoot their signing! It was a lot of fun and mad props to Duncan for helping make Carson happen for me at all. You are the man, Dunc! Thank you thank you! (Also, thank you to Hey Monday for always supporting me and helping me do my thing!) So here’s Hey Monday on the Altec Lansing stage and signing at the Kia tent!











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Four months ago, I hadn’t shot the Cab despite how many times I’d seen them live and how long I’ve loved them. Now, I’ve shot them twice and I’m looking forward to seeing them again. I don’t have many pictures thanks to the GIANT cluster bomb of people at the guest list checkin, they went on at 11:30 and that’s when I got my pass, so I booked it to the stage and managed to catch a song and a half of the first three songs. I’m quite excited that I got more shots of Joey being a BAMF. :) Enjoy!









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I’ve been excited to shoot AVP for a while. My friend Ashley is the first person who introduced me to them and I can’t count the number of times I was supposed to shoot a show AVP was playing and something happened to prevent me from doing it but FINALLY I had the chance at Warped this week and I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t miss them—and I didn’t! YAY!









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Okay, so Anarbor I’ve been excited to shoot for a while. I got their album Free Your Mind and fell head over heels in love after I discovered them while playing Tap Tap Revenge on my iPhone and then I saw them live at Bamboozle and won their snare drum head. So I’ve been getting really amped to shoot them for a while and just like with We Are The In Crowd, I can’t wait to work with them in some way!









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First of all, mad thanks to Stef for introducing me to this band! They’re AWESOME and the combination of Jordan and Tay’s vocals are an amazing blend and their lyrics are fantastic. I had to run from Anarbor’s set to theirs just to catch it only to have to wait to go in for the pit because it was at capacity. I’m glad I went in when I did though because I got some amazing pics of Tay going into the crowd! GO CHECK THESE GUYS OUT! They’re phu-nom-min-uhl! PHENOMENAL!











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…did you go listen to them yet? Do it. Now. I’m making sad eyes at you! Haha, in all seriousness, I can’t wait to get the chance to work with these guys—do a photo shoot, shoot them in concert, do some candids, signing—they seem so chill and down to earth. Love it.

Starting up the queue of pictures from Warped Tour this Friday, starting with VersaEmerge. These are in no particular order at all whatsoever, a little differently I’m posting one band per post! Versa’s set was amazing, it was so great getting to hear the Fixed at Zero songs live with a full electric band. Also, mad props and thanks to Versa’s tour manager Mike for letting me shoot their signing!









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This weekend, my friends and I journeyed down to beautiful San Diego to see the first Material concert with their amazing new drummer Kevin Pintado work it on stage with our friends. Shooting with friends is always nice, so it was awesome getting to shoot with Stef Greenfield (I’m gonna make her get a website so you can all see how amazing her photography is. She’s getting into show shooting now too, so she’ll have that to post too :)) and we had a BLAST. I love the Epicentre for how many different angles I can get and I love The Material’s fans for always being so gracious and letting me squeeze up in front of and around them to take close pictures.











Click here for more of The Material ALSO Thank you to EVERYONE who voted for The Material for the Rock Yourself To Sleep tour! They are one of the three winning bands and they take to the road with Every Avenue, The Secret Handshake, Sing it Loud and There For Tomorrow starting TONIGHT in West Hollywood at The Troubadour! Please come out if you can and support these guys, this is such a huge break for them and the more of us are out along the tour, supporting them loud and proud, the better! Let’s do this! All of the dates are on their myspace—which Jon just redid with the photos we shot together in May (which I’ll be posting once he puts them up on his space!) I hope to see your shining faces out there tonight at the Troubadour and then I’ll see you all, all over again, tomorrow morning at WARPED! Time for punk rock summer camp, y’all. Will I see you there?

The Bamboozle Road Show was nothing short of amazing for me! I got to FINALLY meet Scott who I’ve been working with on different projects on and off for almost two years now (holla OG Hey Monday street team what what?) It was also an incredibly nostalgic show for me with Good Charlotte and Third Eye Blind taking me back to my freshman year of college and earlier. It was really intense and made me miss a lot of people back home and back in New York who I’ve lost touch with or haven’t seen in year(s). It was an awesome show from Drive-A (whose pit time I missed because of ticketing snafus) to The Ready Set (whose pictures I will be posting later, I covered BRS for Decaydance and I want to give them the opportunity to use the pictures before I post them on here, but fear not LOTS of pics of The Ready Set, fosho!) and Jordan was phenomenal. It was my first time seeing him live and it was cool to really see his passion on stage. I got to shoot FTSK for the first time and their set was great, it’s always awesome to see bands grow from the last time you saw them (it’s been a year and a half for me, saw them first on the SassyBack tour!) and FTSK has done nothing short of grow and grow since then! It was also great as always to see ATL and Boys Like Girls again and mad props to the crowd for being really respectful for the two medical emergencies that forced a pause in both of their sets. Without further ado, here are the pics! (Apologies for the dim pics for ATL and BLG i don’t know what happened there, enjoy, though!)



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Heading out to the Epicentre in SD to see The Material tonight! Will I see any of you there?

Pittsburgh was a real treat and an interesting new experience for me. The two hour drive was nothing new—that’s every drive to Anaheim or Orange County in general. But as far as new experiences, I got to check out the This Providence pre-show hang and take some sweet pics of Dan, I waited in the line through the rain and later the intense heat to get into the pit and shoot—my first time taking my equipment into the actual pit to shoot when there was moshing going on. It was crazy but worth every second because this is the best show that I’ve shot on this tour—not to mention it was the BEST show on the tour that I went to—one of the best I’ve ever been to. Enjoy the pictures, Pittsburgh was a mess and the best kind!

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The next day it was back on the concert trail first to Lakewood, CA to the Best Buy In-store featuring Hey Monday, The Friday Night Boys, Stereo Skyline and Golden State. After that it was traffic, traffic, more traffic and finally Chain Reaction. Before I got in to shoot the show, I had a little photo shoot with Elliot. Sadly because of my shoot I missed most of The Bigger Lights’s set and all of Stereo Skyline’s set. I did get some sweet shots of TBL and of The Friday Night Boys as well as This Providence and Hey Monday! Enjoy!

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Back in the concert fun this month, with a few visits to the Let’s Make a Mess tour, which is SUPER exciting because it’s Hey Monday’s very first headlining tour with This Providence, The Friday Night Boys, Stereo Skyline and The Bigger Lights! My first stop was The Knitting Factory in Hollywood! It was the second night of the tour and we got some great surprises, some great hangs, and the band got some of JJ’s epic triple chocolate cupcakes (you want them, trust me.) All of the bands put on an amazing show and I hope the pictures show that to you!

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So what do you think? How sick was this show?

On Sunday I had the great opportunity to do a photo shoot with one of my favorite bands—and my wonderful friends— Hey Monday. They’re such great and talented people and I had SO much fun with them. Cassadee, Elliot, Alex, Mike and Jersey, thank you so much for a really great, fun shoot while I was home in Cleveland. I hope I get the opportunity to work with you guys again soon! Also, thanks to Rohan for hooking me up. You are the best!

On to making a mess with Hey Monday—On a BOAT! (Well, a playground… ;D)

Hey Monday in Cleveland

More Hey Monday coming with concert pics from the Let’s Make a Mess Tour soon! Past Hey Monday pics are here!

Last Saturday I had a wonderful playdate with little Miss Hailey P, one of the most adorable 15 month olds you’ll ever see! We played in the sand and the surf and Hailey even had a little naked adventure chasing the gulls! Here is a selection from the shoot with Hailey and her Aunties!

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How cute is she?