The accordion festival has a tent with a huge dance floor separate from the main stages. In the afternoons a traditional Polka band plays. It’s VERY popular with dancers–not all of whom are in the senior set. But, the older crew did seem to covet the seats when not dancing. Here’s a scene I captured while the band was taking a break.
Lens: Canon 15-85mm at 85mm. 1/50 second at f/5.6, ISO 200.
Canon T2i on the outside looking in.
Here’s another image from last weekend’s accordion festival. This guy is old school, but his look is très cool. No need for color–his vibe is all about black and white. I grabbed the shot while standing just outside a small booth where accordions were being sold.
Lens: Canon 15-85mm at 50mm. 1/200 second at f/5.6, ISO 200.
Canon T2i going old school.
Here’s a shot taken at our booth at the Cotati Accordion Festival this past weekend–Renée and Sean doing business, each in their own way. I REALLY like the “overexposed” look of this shot! I can see more of this style coming.
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm at 15mm. 1/30 second at 5.6, ISO 200.
Canon T2i manning the booth.
This past weekend our band played at the Cotati Accordion Festival. Our set was on Saturday, but Maggie and I were there all day, both days, selling merch and hanging with friends and fans. When I wasn’t at the booth working, eating or enjoying a cold beer or two ;-), I was out and about with my camera. My first offering is a portrait of our fiddler friend Scott working a button box.
Lens: Canon 15-85mm at 25mm. 1/80 second at f/5.6, ISO 200.
Canon T2i in the moment.
My blog got migrated to a new server on August 8th, but the DNS didn’t kick in until 2 days ago. Weird, I know. So, except for this post, it’s frozen on 8/8 until my ISP gets around to restoring the more current database. Hopefully that will happen some time today. Until then…
Update (8/22 at 4:30 PM): Finally! It took the whole weekend before the ISP had my blog back to it’s most current state. New post coming shortly.
Sláinte.