Over the course of the next few days, most likely weeks considering the size, I’m uploading my entire gig photography archive to Flickr and this website. Why? I’ve shot a lot of bands over the last 3 years, some are no longer around and others have gone on to big and ….. nah screw the big explanation, it’s because I’ve got some cool photos in my archive and I want a place where people can see them all.
They’ll all be in the Gig Photography category, which is located under the Photography menu, and so far there’s about 1/2 a dozen or so bands there from late 2005 as well as a couple of the more recent gigs I’ve shot, ie. Simple Plan.
Check them out, leave some comments, etc.
{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }
Awesome – cool idea
One of the venues where I’ve done a lot of my shooting at is putting together a ‘Wall of Rock’ and wants to use a lot of my photos so that’s kind of another reason why I’m doing this.
Good idea! Heh, lots at the Cambridge hotel. That the best place for local gigs?
I can’t decide what to do with my photos. Flickr has a good community thing going on, but I quite like how I’ve designed my photoblog, but I also wouldn’t mind having it all under WordPress… guess I’ll try to figure it out when I’m on holidays!
I think I only shot bands at the Cambridge for the first 3 months, then after that I was getting passes for everywhere. Am starting with the Cambo gigs first as they are really keen to get these photos off of me. I will probably start uploading some of the other venues shortly….ie. some time in the next week as the archive is too huge.
Photos are always a hard thing to have display EXACTLY how you want, at least that’s been my experience in the past. The other problem is you really need to database them well other wise it’s impossible to find anything, that’s kind of why I’m combo-ing them up with my flickr account. I get the community advantage of flickr, as well as the massive scale db, and then I can easily host linked images here without killing my bandwidth each month.
Win win.