Alejandro Escovedo Live at Mansion O, Washington DC
One of the greatest artist I have had the privledge of listening to over the last 8 years or so is Alejandro Escovedo. My brother, Paul, introduced me to Alejandro at the Bumbershoot Music Festival in Seattle back in 2000. Since then, I have seen him play live maybe 10 times.
This past Sunday, he played an amazing show at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. We had great seats right up front, courtesy of my favorite line place holder, Stuart Pearlman, who I used to work with at AOL :-) At the end of the show, Alejandro mentioned that they had added another DC show for the following Sunday at a small hotel/club called Masion O near Dupont Circle. They were video taping the show and tickets were available.
The three piece band featured Susan Voelz on violin. She is an amazing violinist and even Alejandro mentioned that one fan thought she was Jimi Hendrix on Violin :-) Anyway, since my eleven year old son is learning the viola right now, I thought he would really get a kick out of seeing her play. So I got us a couple of passes and we did it…even on a school night.
During the show Jake was absolutely amazed. He kept talking about how the hair on her bow kept breaking and how fast she could play. If only she had lit her violin on fire at the end ;-)
I shot a bunch of stuff during the performance and captured some great moments. Enjoy.
(And check out John Buckley in image 16. He and I worked together at AOL during the good ole anti-spam days)
All images © Carl Hutzler Photography
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What an evening! I loved the pictures. Jacob must have been thrilled to experience this performance with you.
Carl,
GREAT stuff, thanks for taking these. Perhaps I can persuade you to send me a couple full rez for my scrapbook of madness?
With kind regards,
Mark Finkelpearl
awesome pics! Which lens was this? I recently upgraded to the D700 and am evaluating lenses — right now just have the 50mm f/1.4 and the now-discontinued but EXCELLENT 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 AFS. What I miss from moving up from a DX sensor body is not having an equivalent to the 18-200VR! I don’t want to lug around a huge 24-70mm and a bazooka-like 70-200mm on, say, a vacation.
A few more pictures are now posted on Alejandro’s MySpace page. The link is near the top where it says View My: Pics
http://www.myspace.com/alejandroescovedo
Thank you, Mike!
I was using a 17-35mm lens for some wide shots and the 70-200 big heavy thing for everything else. Anything slower and I would have been shooting at ISO 6400 or more (most of these were 1600/3200 ISO). Not fun to lug it around a day at the park, but it is a necessary evil indoors in performance lighting….and a wonderful lens too :-)
You can still use the 18-200 DX on your full frame sensor. You just end up with 5-6MP images which is just fine for most of my work. Don’t sweat the small stuff, Trekker. Go out and shoot :-)