Monthly Archives: August 2007

Duke Levine Band in Concert at SMAC

Duke Levine Band at Stone Mountain Arts Center

[L to R: Kevin Barry, Per Hanson, Mike Rivard, and Duke Levine]

Duke Levine (along with Kevin Barry) have been at the core of the instrumental team behind Carol Noonan’s records for a number of years. In addition to being a studio recording artist, Duke has played with a number of bands (big and small) ranging from Boston local Dennis Brennan to touring with Mary Chapin Carpenter. Duke has also released a number of CDs featuring his guitar instrumentals.

The Duke Levine Band is tight. These guys are all master technicians at what they do. There’s no light show. Heck, there’s not even singing! Just a mix of classic and original guitar tunes. Duke is obviously an afficiando of other guitar masters and pays tribute to them with fabulous arrangements and execution. I’m looking forward to his new CD, slated for release in the fall (we hope).

Duke was kind enough to give me permission to shoot during the show. Professionals at work.

To see more photos from the night visit: http://smac.dmg-photography.com/DLB-Aug-2007

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Flying Horses

Flying Horses - The 2-6 jumping event at Apple Knoll Farm, Millis, Massachusetts

The next best thing to photographing wild horses is an outdoor horse show. Unfortunately most of them are late morning/early afternoon events and the lighting is, um, really really bad.

My daughter is a riding instructor at Harmony Horse Stables in Littleton and we occasionally go to shows to watch her ride (as an instructor she doesn’t usually do that much competitive riding) along with others from the barn. She had asked me a few weeks ago to do a little video of her and Duke doing some jumps. Sure.

So two weeks ago Betsy informs me that Cathy has some jumping events at a show in Millis that they go to each Wednesday afternoon in July and August. They’ve been going there the past few years… (long pause) Let me get this straight. There’s an outdoor horse show that takes place in the late afternoon summer light…. Each week… And nobody thought to mention this to me?

So I booked out of work on Wednesday afternoon and headed down to Apple Knoll Farm in Millis. It wasn’t everything I had hoped for (a hill to the west of the farm kills the sweetest light), but these are by far the nicest horse show photographs I’ve ever taken. I can’t make it each week, but we went for a few weeks this year and this is something that will definitely be on the list for next year photographing “Team Harmony”.

See my “Harmony on the Rails” series at http://harmony.dmg-photography.com

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