Fists in the Air

When I photograph concerts, I am often more interested in the crowds than the musicians. With punk rock concerts, that is even more true. These photos are from the Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival in downtown Las Vegas on Memorial Day. The music was loud and obnoxious. The scene was dirty, gritty, and hot. The crowd was super aggressive. It was perfect.

Rainbows and Sparkles

Hello Pride Parade. I love you. Every year you make me feel so happy. You have so many fun things to photograph: drag queens, sparkles, rainbows, dancing, lovely ladies, beautiful boys, motorcycles, cowboy hats, feather boas, fake boobs, rhinestones, Joan Rivers and drag Joan Rivers. See you next year.

Even Better Than the Real Thing

I have been waiting for this week for a long time. Though I've lived in Vegas for several years, I've never photographed one of the most quintessential "Vegas" events, the annual Celebrity Impersonator Convention. At least in my mind it's a quintessential Vegas event. It was everything I had dreamed of and more. I cannot wait to go back next year. The best part was that every single impersonator I encountered was a lovely, amazing and gracious person. What a joy it was to hang with these folks and live in their world for a few hours. Check out more photos and Patrick Coolican's insightful Las Vegas Weekly column here.

The Big Sleep

It's so nice when things come together perfectly. For the past six months, we've been following a hotel suite design competition at the historic El Cortez Hotel in downtown Las Vegas. Four designers, four suites, $22,000 each. I have to admit that I was not as excited about this project as the other members of the team working on it (the videographer and reporter). But in the end, the design team that won was the team I had coincidentally spent the most time photographing. It all worked out and looking back, I actually got some decent photos. I will not complain so much next time.

Tina learns her design "The Big Sleep" has won.

The original suite without renovations. Bleck.

Tina's fabulous shoes with the ugly carpet.

"The Big Sleep"

They used bullet casings as decoration to go with the mob theme. Brilliant.