Kenny Lackey 10/20/25 Kenny Lackey 10/20/25

No Kings #2

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Thousands took to the streets for the second downtown No Kings protest. I took a few shots with the 6x7, which I’ll get developed this week. But for the entirety of this post I stuck to the Canon 50mm f/1.2 USM paired with the R6ii. I couldn’t realistically swap out lenses because of a steady rain and I’d opted for a raincoat instead of an umbrella. I appreciated just having the one focal length.

It was at once a silly and serious protest. Emphasis on the latter.

50mm | f/7.1 | 1/160 | ISO 4000
Rosa photobombing some very serious photography business!

Kenny Lackey 10/18/25 Kenny Lackey 10/18/25

Parents 2025

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I look forward to this annual visit and I’m grateful to have it as long as I do. My folks come out, we eat yummy food, drive around the area, hit the zoo, a few other odds and ends and bob’s your uncle. They now insist on driving down to see the length of the graffiti wall, which is delightful to me. Anyhow I only took the Ricoh and 6x7 out with me, so here’s what I got with the 40mm view of the world from the Ricoh, as a St. Louisan touring St. Louis with his parents. These are shots from Lone Elk, the Shaw Nature Reserve, and the Zoo from over the last week with them.

Today’s big photography project, weather permitting, will be the No Kings protest downtown.

Kenny Lackey 10/9/25 Kenny Lackey 10/9/25

Artica 2025

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What a weekend! Artica is a two day festival of art, community, music, and dance that culminates with the burning of a large wooden effigy, not unlike Burning Man. However, no money or commerce of any kind is allowed, it’s volunteer run and led, and family friendly—all of which sets it very much apart from the commercial, drug-fueled juggernaut Burning Man has become. This was my first year attending, and it’s now one of the events I will most look forward to. Below is a mix of medium format film and full frame digital.

105mm | f/??? | 1/??? | ISO 400 (Pentax 6×7)

50mm | f/5.6 | 1/1000 | ISO 320 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/2.2 | 1/16000 | ISO 1250 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/1.4 | 1/8000 | ISO 1000 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/1.8 | 1/800 | ISO 320 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/1.l8 | 1/640 | ISO 320 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/1.8 | 1/50 | ISO 500 (Canon R6ii)

85mm | f/1.8 | 1/80 | ISO 400 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/1.2 | 1/40 | ISO 6400 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/1.2 | 1/40 | ISO 400 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/1.2 | 1/40 | ISO 5000 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/1.2 | 1/40 | ISO 2500 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/2.5 | 1/80 | ISO 1600 (Canon R6ii)

105mm | f/??? | 1/??? | ISO 400 (Pentax 6×7, probably shooting at f/2.5 and 1/30 but I’m not sure. Also the cover image to this post, at a similar stage of burn shown here, is digital)

50mm | f/2.5 | 1/400 | ISO 51200 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/2.5 | 1/400 | ISO 32000 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/2.5 | 1/400 | ISO 32000 (Canon R6ii)
This was the exact moment the whistle blew, letting the crowd know they could run around the burning pyre.

50mm | f/1.2 | 1/400 | ISO 32000 (Canon R6ii)

50mm | f/1.2 | 1/400 | ISO 40000 (Canon R6ii)

Kenny Lackey 10/9/25 Kenny Lackey 10/9/25

Grove Fest 2025

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105mm | f/??? | 1/??? | ISO 400 (film, shot on Pentax 6×7)
I’m very partial to this shot. This was “fishing” rather than “hunting,” as in, I found the composition I liked and then waited in the same spot for quite some time before hitting the shutter button. The crowd was tending to move towards me and I wanted to capture a compelling scene. Another aspect of this shot that gave me confidence is that this was my first time using the waist-level viewfinder for the Pentax. The viewfinders are interchangeable, and the waist level version is a little collapsable square on top of the camera that lets you look down and see a large enough rendering that you don’t need to bring the camera up to your eyes.

Kenny Lackey 10/9/25 Kenny Lackey 10/9/25

Shaw Art Fair & Best of Missouri

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These two events happen just steps from each other, by design. The Best of Missouri is hosted by the Missouri Botanical Garden and while a solidly curated event with thoughtful details, I personally found the use of space missed the mark. In particular the cocktails area and some of the food vendors were set apart for some reason—I think the idea was likely to have multiple areas to explore, but I think it would have been more effective to have everything all together. I shot both events solely on the Ricoh GRIIIx. I wanted to put that little camera through some paces, and my gosh, in terms of bang for buck this is probably the best piece of kit I’ve picked up.

Kenny Lackey 10/2/25 Kenny Lackey 10/2/25

TGP Pride and Art in the Park

I’ve yet to get film from this past weekend developed but if any shots came out I’ll return here to add them in. In the meantime everything below (with the exception of a single shot) came from the Ricoh GR IIIx. I’m still getting used to it, but this is a capable little performer. I’ve outfitted it with a waist level viewfinder and a variable ND filter which makes for excellent stealth shooting, allowing me to get close. As a tradeoff I found that I tended to be less intentional with composition. To my eye the most interesting are the dog with the pink visor and the last image. First up, Art in the Park held around the pond at Francis Park.

Kenny Lackey 9/29/25 Kenny Lackey 9/29/25

Porchfest

This was my first year attending Skinker DeBalivier’s Porchfest, which this year offered fifty bands across an afternoon and a few dozen porches. Some were teenage bands maybe performing in public for the first time while others had been playing for decades. It was a 70 degree Sunday and just right in sun or shade.

105mm | f/??? | 1/??? | ISO 400 (Pentax 6×7 MLU, Portra 400)
I’m still very much a novice at learning this camera and the k1000. When a shot works it makes me want to go back out and keep pressing it. I’ve incorporated a light meter into my regular gear after reading that the Pentax light meters tend to overrepresent available light and the addition has made a significant strides towards properly exposed frames. Also I love this film stock with the Pentax. Just by way of comparison, you can compare this image to the cover image for the post from the blog—that was shot on digital Canon equipment just a couple years old (along with most of the rest below, except where noted).

50mm | f/??? | 1/??? | ISO 400 (Pentax K1000, Fuji 400)

Kenny Lackey 9/22/25 Kenny Lackey 9/22/25

MATI 2025

Music at the Intersection delivers an experience at once intimate, sprawling, and varied. Three days of blues, jazz, rap, DJs—and altogether midtown magic. In fact, a friend I was with mused “why wouldn’t we just shut down a couple blocks of Washington Ave permanently and make this a mixed use pedestrian area?” I thought it was an excellent idea and this festival works as a partial proof of concept. MATI offers the freedom to move around, to experience multiple stages within the same hour if you choose, and while there are thousands attending you can usually angle yourself into a great spot.

This year also served as the premiere of our city’s newest music and event venue, The Sovereign. This is the sort of venue that has the class and space to draw big name touring bands at the club level. The staff and AV were put to the test over these few days given the at times elbow-to-elbow crowd and the impressive variety and cadence of shows. Off the street entrance you walk into a spacious black and white tiled lobby with a handsome staircase before you, double doors to either side of it, and a lengthy, mirror-backed bar to your left. I hope it brings in the sort of acts that currently default to The Factory.

50mm | f/4.5 | 1/40 | ISO 25600
Sometimes sharing exif data is embarrasing. That is a wild ISO…

85mm | f/5 | 1/200 | ISO 320
St. Louis’ own Tef Poe, after his appearance at the Sovereign.

50mm | f/2.2 | 1/60 | ISO 400
Film, shot on a Pentax K1000, and honestly while I’m pretty sure about the settings the f/ stop and shutter speed are my best guesses. But I can be confident I would have shot this wide open, and 1/125 would have been too dark for speed, and 1/30 would have shown a little motion given this was handheld.

50mm | f/2.2 | 1/60 | ISO 400
Also a K1000 shot, and also guessing on aperture and shutter speed.

50mm | f/2.2 | 1/30 | ISO 400
Last one from the K1000, and probably the ‘worst’ image I’ve ever posted on this site—under exposed, out of focus, blurry, and nothing of interest to speak of. However, it’s also the only shot I have of The Sovereign’s lobby. And you know, I’m going to admit that while this is objectively a bad photo… I’m a bit charmed by it.

105mm | f/2.0 | 1/60 | ISO 400
Shot on the Pentax 6×7.

Kenny Lackey 9/8/25 Kenny Lackey 9/8/25

St. Louis Art Fair 2025 & Additions to the Family

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I picked up a couple new cameras this weekend, with one contributing some images below: the Ricoh GRIIIx HDF and in the opposite direction, a Pentax 6x7 MLU.

I think I’ll skip the EXIF data for these two iPhone shots.
I added a rubberized case and a small metallic thumb grip to the GRIIIx that fits in the hot shoe—although I also ordered a 3D printed waist level viewfinder which mounts to that shoe (the flange you see at the camera’s top left), and I imagine will spend more time there. The Ricoh GR series is based on an APS-C sensor (Advanced Photography System-Cropped), which is smaller than the traditional 35mm format. The equivalent focal length of its fixed lens is 40mm in 35mm format, and the HDF stands for Highlight Diffusion Filter. I’ve not yet spent much time with it, but I immediately loved it.

My first film camera. This particular model was most likely made in the mid 70s, and features a small button on the left of the lens mounts that allows for MLU (mirror lock-up, which prevents the mirror from slapping shut for just a split second after I press the shutter button). I put a full roll of Kodak 100 Ektar through it at the fair today—ten exposures. I braced for a whole new workflow but other than getting used to manual focus I felt at home right away. I love the way the controls feel, the grid in the prism viewfinder, the heft and sturdiness. No images in this post from the Pentax, but I dropped them off for development at Schiller’s and they should be ready in less than a week.

50mm | f/3.5 | 1/16000 | ISO 1250
I personally love shooting in harsh, full light, especially if I have fun colors to work with and this fair didn’t disappoint there.

40mm | f/8 | 1/200 | ISO 200 (shot on the GR IIIx)
I edited these the same as I do the shots from the Canon R6ii, but you can tell there’s difference in the inherent color profiles between their sensors. At least to my eye the profile runs slightly cooler and even though there’s no filter on, the light in general seems softer. The HDF was switched off.

40mm | f/7.1 | 1/200 | ISO 200. (shot on the GRIIIx)

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Paint Louis - Labor Day Weekend #3

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A two mile stretch of the St. Louis flood wall gets a fresh splay of graffiti murals every Labor Day weekend, with invitations going out to artists all over the country. Construction of the eleven mile long flood wall began on February 24, 1959 and reached completion in 1965, with the murals starting at its most northern point, maybe a quarter mile south of the arch. Many walk this event, but many are on bikes, skateboards, scooters, motorcycles, or even cars and trucks. There’s a paved road right at the wall and not far from that there’s a broad gravel path running parallel for maybe the second half of the event area.

Everyone—especially the artists—was so welcoming and in great spirits. Skateboarders, fans, St. Louisans of every stripe… of all the events I go to, this is the one that to me best represents this city.

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Japanese Festival - Labor Day Weekend #2

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I don’t have too many photos from Japanese Festival in the Missouri Botanical Gardens to offer this year. I was there for a few hours, but took my time and was selective about framing things up. I love this festival and regret not making it back for a follow up shoot on day two, there was just a lot to cover and I was tuckered out by Sunday. I missed the Greek Festival at St. Nicholas and the Central West End Jazz and Blues Fest altogether.

35mm | f/4.5 | 1/640 | ISO 200
I’m still sheepish with the 35mm prime lens. I love the way it shoots, I’m just very used to framing things with a 50mm view. This family happened to take a knee together right in front of me as I ate a quick lunch of noodles and I surreptitiously changed from the 50 to the 35 and grabbed this.

35mm | f/4 | 1/1000 | ISO 10000
I like it when one set of eyes finds the lens. The little girl on the right was on to me, while the others chatted amongst themselves. The fast shutter and high ISO are a result of the mixed lighting—a bright background of full windows in the background, with the same windows at my back lighting the subjects along with indoor lighting. I could have corrected the graininess in post but in this case I liked it.

50mm | f/5 | 1/500 | ISO 640
Bonus shot—a scene of couples dancing at the Tower Grove Farmer’s Market 20th anniversary.

Kenny Lackey 9/1/25 Kenny Lackey 9/1/25

Tour de Lafayette 2025 - Labor Day Weekend #1

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I hadn’t been to the Gateway Cup as a photographer before and a friend pointed this particular course out as a potential shoot. I found it enjoyably challenging! I also hadn’t ever messed around with panning before: locking the focal point onto a moving target and attempting to sweep the camera in sync with the subject. This will be the first of I think three posts from this welcome long weekend. It wasn’t restful—I put in twenty miles on foot with camera gear in just two days—but it was a joy.

St. Louis is a special prism for experiencing American life. The most salient elements about being American are blasted through in sharper color, and that’s been the case for well over a hundred years. There’s a lot packed into that thought and I started to expound before my editorial ear announced itself and deleted everything. I think I can get away with just noting that late August is a particularly good time to be here. It was easy to love St. Louis this weekend.

85mm | f/16 | 1/1600 | ISO 2500
Weird use of an 85mm, stopping all the way down to f/16, but I had Steven Spielburg in my mind as I went into this shoot as I knew I was seeing Jaws for the 50th anniversary this weekend. Spielburg almost always shoots stopped down so that everything is in focus. In stills, whether you want that really depends on the composition and in this case I shot a set as the peloton approached stopped down and at a loco shutter speed hoping to get isolated subjects despite the flattened focus.

85mm | f/3.5 | 1/1600 | ISO 250
This is the more common approach: shoot with the aperture wide open so that the lens can focus on a single plane and wash out everything else with bokeh.

50mm | f/14 | 1/125 | ISO 2000
A cyclist took a serious fall, the rest of the racers hold up. The stretcher on the back of the ATV shown is empty, but the fallen rider was on the one in front of it.

50mm | f/16 | 1/200 | ISO 10000
I like this composition, but it could have been great if I’d taken more time—maybe set the f/ value at about half what it’s at, dropped the ISO way down and slowed the shutter. I’m pretty sure this was shot with the ND filter on, but not positive.

Kenny Lackey 8/29/25 Kenny Lackey 8/29/25

Festival of Nations 2025

After a sometimes brutal summer St. Louis was gifted with a perfect weekend for my favorite event here, Festival of Nations. This year saw a smaller footprint with fewer food vendors. About the same or even more turned out compared to last year, though, so it felt rather packed on the main paths without being uncomfortable or overly difficult.

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Kenny Lackey 8/17/25 Kenny Lackey 8/17/25

Taste of St. Louis

I go to events because I want to photograph people, and in St. Louis this is best done by way of its events. At these events people are often curious and friendly towards photographers. I like this aspect of going out. Someone came up Friday evening and bumped my elbow with his, offered me a piece of chicken out of a full basket and walked away after a brief exchange. Saturday a young woman approached and asked about my camera, and said that she would be a photographer one day. A half dozen interactions or so when I go out to an event is about par.

It’s unfortunate that this particular event moved to Clayton and the decision pretty well gutted turnout compared to last year—not that it felt empty, but it was underpopulated for sure. And understandably. For my purposes though it made it easier to frame things up.

50mm | f/9 | 1/125 | ISO 100
This is my favorite photo from the set. The man on the left with a coke and an hors d'oeuvres of some kind, the woman in the middle curious about what treats the pair on the right have alighted upon, and the pair on the right reviewing their finds. I took many snaps of this particular scene and there’s an amusing frame a split second later with the woman in the middle sporting a face that seems to say “Oh okay!” in approval of the pair’s snacking choices. It’s not a stellar photo, I know, but mostly what I like is the light. I really like pairing an ND filter with the 50mm. This is direct, full sun with no hood… I just think the light is beautiful.

50mm | f/11 | 1/60 | ISO 250
The lighting in this parking lot was also quite nice. It just nicks dad here, but if you look off to his left you can see a clutch of folks lit not by the sun directly, but coming off an office building’s west facing reflective windows and dappling the lot below. I wish that I had gotten super low for this and was angled up at them.

50mm | f/11 | 1/60 | ISO 200
I’m including this one despite it not making grade, because my one regret from this shoot was this standing table area. Shooting off to the side like this I was drawing a lot of wandering eyes from the tables whenever I took aim, but I really should have squeezed the scene, trusted my instincts and been patient. That and I should have moved to the other side of this trash can. I love setups like this (which, again, I failed to convey here) where the setting encourages layers form.

50mm | f/11 | 1/60 | ISO 400
Simba Sambosa, a Ugandan restaurant in STL, with George cooking.

85mm | f/1.2 | 1/250 | ISO 1000
This couple filled the space between the crowd and the band and stole the show. They also gave me (and the crowd) a lot of great moments, and I found it hard to edit it down to just a couple to share! Given the shutter speed and that the sun had set, I was battling rolling shutter a bit but I think it worked out alright.

50mm | f/1.2 | 1/30 | ISO 500
This is from Foodies Eat First Fest, which was held in the old Trust Bank downtown. I think the event meant to capitalize on the Yankees being in town, as what you are looking at is a pastrami sandwich from Katz Deli out of the lower east side, NYC. There was a $50 entrance fee, and this half sandwich then cost $35. I was aesthetically obligated to purchase one as I love Katz. Did I feel foolish? Definitely. But it was also excellent, and I figured hey, when is the next time this NYC establishment is going to visit the Lou.
In contrast, Taste of St. Louis was free and more relaxed, the crowd was friendlier and more fun both to speak with and to shoot, and the food was just as good. A weekend pass to Foodies Eat First would have run you a minimum of $300, or much more for a VIP weekend pass. Good luck to them!

Kenny Lackey 8/10/25 Kenny Lackey 8/10/25

Downtown Blues

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I have a clutch of pictures mostly focussed on Blues at the Arch to share. This is a festival co-authored by the Blues Museum and Arch to Park across a few days and locations near to the arch. By the end of the shoot I looked like I’d jumped in a pool, sopping wet with sweat.

50mm | f/2 | 1/4000 | ISO 12,800
Thursday, August 7th, Washington Ave. A rare glimpse of me on the right!

35mm | f/1.4 | 1/4000 | ISO 100
Tower Grove Park, Saturday morning.

50mm | f/1.4 | 1/1000 | ISO 10000
The new Cardinal Glennon Children’s hospital going up at Choteau and Grand.

Kenny Lackey 8/3/25 Kenny Lackey 8/3/25

Respite

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July’s heat broke this past Thursday and August came in as beautifully as she might have. We’ve had four uninterrupted days in the low 80s. The first two were hampered a bit by drifting wildfire smoke, but the last two were within spitting distance of perfection. These are some scattered shots since Friday evening.

85mm | f/1.2 | 1/320
David has been working at The Vine for eight years, and spoke with me about his care of the plants and patio in particular on Friday night.

35mm | f/1.4 | 1/8000
Fountain Park, NE corner, 10 weeks later.

85mm | f/1.2 | 1/16000
This morning I visited Dutchtown for a photowalk. I found it to be one of the most friendly neighborhoods in St. Louis, to a degree that almost made me feel like I was in *The Truman Show*.

85mm | f/1.2 | 1/16000
Innovation can be a roadblock.

35mm | f/1.4 | 1/8000
Not the first I’ve photographed this alley off 10th street.

35mm | f/2 | 1/16000
Citygarden Sculpture Park

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Javadaroo

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Javad celebrated a birthday this last weekend, and in what I take to be Javad-esque fashion he hosted a wonderful party on Cherokee that doubled as a fundraiser for St. Louis immigrants. I’ve only met him within the last year. He’s a singular sort: the infectious and wild energy a comedian or improv artist might have, a deep intelligence you wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of, and most notably an unassailable warmth. I also didn’t know most of the crowd but the atmosphere was one of gathering and celebration and play. And tacos and drinks.

50mm | f/6.3 | 1/60
Apparently I really liked shooting from this spot. I think for the first hour or so I was just getting used to shooting in this new setting and it was tricky with the lighting. I didn’t want to get up in front of the stage and shoot outwards into the crowd, but I should have at some point.

85mm | f/1.2 | 1/640
The man of the hour!

50mm | f/1.2 | 1/320
T-Dubb-O takes the stage!

85mm | f/1.2 | 1/80
Tef Poe. Both artists shattered the room. They brought the goods.

Kenny Lackey 7/22/25 Kenny Lackey 7/22/25

Newstead

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Any day of the week you’ll find residents continuing the cleanup and recovery effort by hand, amongst themselves and with a now thinned volunteer force. I’m among those that flagged off and the burnout is real. But also to be clear, if you go out you do still see volunteers and neighbors helping each other. I recently photographed Newstead and its side streets.

These are just maybe a dozen or so homes of thousands, on just a handful of streets out of hundreds.

50mm | f/3.5 | 1/640
Garfield Lacy. He was trapped under the rubble of his 3400sf brick home for five hours, shown in the image above and also below. He was found by cadaver dogs.

50mm | f/3.5 | 1/400
A bare foundation a few houses north of Garfield’s.

50mm | f/5.6 | 1/400
Childhood home of Terry Moore (above). She lives just across the street now, but grew up in this home with twenty siblings. One of her sisters was born in the morning of the ‘56 St. Louis tornado, and died on the morning of this one. She told me that she was lifted out of her doorway but then thrown and pinned to the ground in her front yard, and that the only word to describe what it looked like was a “monster.” That it seemed to choose homes and that when it did it devoured them.

Kenny Lackey 7/19/25 Kenny Lackey 7/19/25

July, No Fourth

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50mm | f/2.5 | 1/400
I’m switching to include shutter speed with every photo in addition to focal length and the f/ stop. I would gladly share ISO but I don’t see a way of retrieving that from file info.
Anyway this is a beautiful marble torchiere in the downtown STL main library Great Room, original to the building although new floor standards were installed with brass mold torchieres and alabaster bowls for the lighting elements. The original library was completed in 1865, although the building as we know it now, the Cass Gilbert main building, wasn’t completed until 1912, and this most recent renovation wrapped in 2013.

50mm | f/2.5 | 1/40
Detail of the alabaster base. Just beautiful work. You could spend a lifetime diving into the architectural details of St. Louis.

85mm | f/2.5 | 1/400
I like the idea behind this shot, a kid’s bike proudly and boldly parked on a Tower Grove South sidewalk on a late St. Louis summer afternoon (the young sir is just off frame on a porch). It’s not a good image as I should have stood up rather than crouching—the handlebars and upper frame are lost in the background.
There’s nothing holding this post together thematically, by the way. Maybe ‘summer,’ but really just a random assortment of images from the past couple of weeks, and I did absolutely nothing for the Fourth—hence the title. Every year I think ‘this is the year I’ll go downtown for the fireworks,’ and I will mean it and hold that thought with gusto. And then the day of, I get to thinking about crowds and heat and parking and traffic getting in and out and blah blah. Also this year I was thinking of the particular awkwardness of shooting that kind of event. Anything where a lot of people are either just standing still or sitting down is a challenge to shoot, at least for me.
There are some shots below of Whitaker Music Festival and I felt the same there, namely that I didn’t really enjoy shooting the crowd and I felt weird about it. Whereas I don’t feel much discomfort at, e.g., Festival of Nations or some event where folks are milling about, doing people things. Part of the issue is access. To properly cover an event like a concert, you would need a press pass.

85mm | f/2.5 | 1/500
This is at the ruins at Tower Grove Park, last Saturday morning. Snugs.

85mm | f/1.2 | 1/2000
Whitaker Music Festival at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, July 2nd, with Saint Chuck playing. I moved all throughout the crowd and I would usually say something like, “May I be incredibly rude for a moment, join you, take pics for thirty seconds, and then leave?” That part was fine and I did get some good coverage of the band that way, but there was no way of covering the seated crowd that would be both 1) comfortable for all parties involved and yet also 2) form a decent composition. The below isn’t terribly engaging to me, but it’s a decent sort of abstract impression of a hot July evening at MoBot.

24mm | f/16 | 1/320 (ND variable filter on)

50mm | f/5.6 | 1/160
St. Louis Art Museum, last Saturday, July 12th.

85mm | f/5.6 | 1/160
Construction on the Tower Grove Connector.

50mm | f/6.3 | 1/400
A Friday movie series showing Frozen at Keiner Plaza last night, with special guest.

85mm | f/1.8 | 1/160
Saturn Lounge, Cherokee Street

50mm | f/3.5 | 1/400
Someone left this abstract bouquet near the park ruins this morning.

5.7mm | f/1.5 | 1/800 (iPhone)
Ryan and his pops mixing up cement for Ryan and Nicole’s forthcoming outdoor kitchen.

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Solstice

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Last week I took off Tuesday and Thursday to spend some vacation time that otherwise would have gone away in July. On Tuesday Ryan and I drove down to Elephant Rocks and then over to the Johnson Shutins.