Shadow Armada 2015 – Dress Rehearsal

It’s that time of year again!! When summer finally arrives, I think of marching band. I spent five high school summers marching and have since gone back to photograph and shoot video of the Oregon High School Marching Band, collectively known as Shadow Aramda. These images are from their first show. Here’s to another amazing […]

Shadow Indoor Percussion – “This is Water”

Shadow Indoor Percussion is an ensemble from Oregon High School in Oregon, WI that competes at WGI World Championships. The 2015 group was overjoyed with their results, as during the season they were promoted to a national class (Independent Open) which includes almost exclusively college-age performers. They completely expected not to make finals, up against some […]

Youngblood Brass Band

I toured with Youngblood Brass Band for a few days in November. We started at Drom in New York then drove to Boston then to Washington D.C. Here are a few show shots from the shows!

Shadow Armada Winterguard and Indoor Percussion 2013

This was my first year documenting the Oregon High School winter program. I traveled with the Shadow Armada Winterguard to Indiana for a weekend and with Shadow Armada Indoor Percussion to Dayton, Ohio for another weekend. Both groups were incredible! See all of the photos from the winter season here. Shadow Armada Winterguard 2013 – […]

Austin, Texas

David here, Beth’s indomitable brother. We traveled to Austin for 3 days to bear witness to a massive celebration of life and love: the wedding of our good friends Aaron and Chelsey. The city was slowly recovering from SxSW, and backward haircuts roamed the streets at night, listless, forlorn and lost. But the weather was […]

Shadow Armada 2011

Every summer I look forward to spending a few weeks documenting the Oregon Marching Band. This year the organization had the opportunity to travel to Alberta, Canada to compete. in Calgary and Edmonton. We performed in two parades, four competions, perused the fifth largest shopping mall in the world, wandered around the Calgary Stampede and […]

I (really do) love Alpacas.

This weekend was amazing. I not only got to pet and get my picture taken with alpacas, but I met so many amazing people and I got a good start on the learning part : ) The Great Midwest Alpaca Festival was at the Alliant Energy Center this past Saturday and Sunday. Look for it […]