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Insonnia at Montaluce

Curtis Jones, Pete Orenstein and Mark Letalien, three members of Insonnia, performed at the beautiful Montaluce Winery on Monday, May 31st, 2010. It was a great Memorial Day for those lucky enough to be in attendance. Here are a few images from the performance and a shot of the group out in the vines.

Curtis Jones & The Mountain Gypsy Project

Curtis Jones (guitar & mandolin), Martin Norgaard (violin), Steve Mays (bass) and Dobbin Buck (percussion) played the main pavilion during the Bear on the Square festival on April 18th, 2010. The sound was incredible, these guys are fantastic musicians. Categorizing their music is impossible. There are so many different influences: jazz, blue grass, fusion, Spanish classical and the list goes on and on.

Virtuosos all, they are all so talented and you have to listen to their sound to appreciate their musicianship and the level of talent these guys have. In the interest of full disclosure, all the music on my websites are original compositions by Curtis and back in late January of this year Curtis asked me to be his exclusive photographer; of course, honored, I accepted.

Here are some shots of the guys at the main pavilion at the 2010 Bear on the Square festival. I will be adding more images over the next few days, so check back.

Curtis Jones

Martin Norgaard

Steve Mays

Curtis Jones - Portraits of a Musician

Curtis Jones and I met in the square in Dahlonega Monday night. It's was a little late, both of us were just getting back to Dahlonega after busy days. We were going to grab a cup of coffee at the Crimson Moon and talk about some upcoming events, but we got there too late and they were closed. I had some gear and in the car and we decided to do a little shooting.

It was dark, but I had an Elinchrom Ranger RX battery pack and a couple of heads. I didn't have my Octabank with me or any of the Rotalux soft boxes, so I shot this session with a shoot through umbrella as my key light and a 7 inch reflector with a 30 degree grid as my fill or rim light.

The session was pretty quick, we shot for about 30 minutes and then went and grabbed some Mexican food at El Jimador and caught up. It was really good to see Curtis again, it has been a few months. He was touring in Europe and working on a new album. He is always working on a project and he formed a new band that will debut at the Bear on the Square festival; can't wait to hear them play.

Al Di Meola, an awesome guitarist - if you're not familiar with his body of work you owe it to yourself to run, don't walk, to your nearest music store and give him a listen. Anyway, Francesco Cabras is Al's photographer and Curtis mentioned that he really liked the sharp edged quality of some of his portraits on the Official Website of Al Di Meola. Curtis is launching a new website soon and the images from this session may find their way to that site. Knowing that Curtis was interested in a more edgy style of image, similar to the images on Al Di Meola's site, I created these images.