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I haven’t shot very many live music events. So when Gizmo co-worker Jeff Carson asked me to join his mini documentary crew – of course I said yes. Jeff spent most of the weekend documenting the annual Jam4Dan Benefit Concert at the Celtic Fox. Keith Walberg and I joined the fun on Saturday night. An eclectic line-up of bands and a cozy-small venue made for fun shooting.  A friend of mine has a theory that singers are a modern day version of tribal storytellers. So we listen. And we come back for more. She might be right.

Cold beer. Great friends. And loud storytelling. I’ll take that any Saturday night.

When I got back into photography – I spent a lot of time wandering on dirt roads searching for something to shoot. Anything. But the sky and clouds and horizons were my addiction. And they still are. In the skies I find geometry and conflict and inspiration. Every image is unique – and fleeting. It’s like eating a familiar food, but tasting something new. So, here’s to a new year filled with many more days chasing the clouds.

The pepper-spraying U.C. Davis campus cop has got some of his own medicine with Photoshop-pepper-spray art across the interwebs. Here are a couple that I came up with.

I have photographed a lot of cattle, but never a herd coming down main street of a small town. The Kansas 150 Anniversary Cattle Drive went from Caldwell to Ellsworth – nearly 200 miles with a big herd of longhorn cattle. I caught up with the drive at my hometown of Ellinwood, KS. It was a crappy, overcast day – but had a great time shooting and visiting with my family. My dad and Larry Salsbury went along for the ride.