Beach House

I haven't put up a large photo post in awhile so here goes.. Beach House was supporting Grizzly Bear at the Palladium in October. My good buddy Jason is their manager and hired me to come hang out and take some pics before during and after the show. I have to say i was fighting a crazy head cold, and was looped up on a bunch of cough medicine so its a little hazy, but it was fun, and the show was really amazing. This brings me to my point. I feel weird being a photographer in the photo pit. I think i have control issues, and this show wasn't very crazy with photographers, but I rarely want to post photos from the pit, because I feel like there are probably 10 of the same photos floating around by 10 different photogs. Although the pits are super comfortable, convenient, and necessary, I feel like I'm in a treestand with 15 other hunters waiting for the dancing deer to walk by, and then we all get to fire off machine guns for awhile and its over, all the while trying not to knock each other out of the tree or shoot each other in the face on accident. I am jaded. I try to remember the fact that I get to see all these bands closer than everyone else, the fact that i get the seat right in front of the most dedicated fans. How excited i was to shoot Queens of the Stoneage at the Palladium years ago, limping in and out of the pit on crutches with a broken leg and my half broken nikon n90s... anyway, no more jaded, here are some photos from in and out of the photo pit.