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ICG600 Camera Assistant // Photographer

Portland, OR
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Bayside // 25th Anniversary Tour at Revolution Hall - Portland, OR

@baysideband.bsky.social
@anthonyraneri.bsky.social
@nickbayside.bsky.social

Black and white: 2 guitarists on stage, one is blurry in the background and slightly covered by light, the one in focus in the foreground is playing a white guitar and signing into a microphone The bass player of Bayside sings into a microphone while holding his bass up. Hands are blurred in the foreground of the image. A purple, violet and pink light shines in the background Black and white - a guitar player of the band bayside plays guitar on stage, a shaft of light illuminates him from behind, with the background fading into black. The crowd is blurry in the foreground at the bottom of the image Black and white - The bass player of bayside lifts his bass upright while performing on stage
June 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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6.14.2025 // Smoking Popes at Revolution Hall - Portland, OR

#smokingpopes #concertphotography #punkrock #chicagopunk #portlandpunk #concertphotos #canon #photography #monochrome #fender #punk #concert
Monochrome image - “smoking popes” stenciled on a guitar cabinet is in focus in the background, the bass player, cut off near the shoulder, stands closer to camera and the cabinet is framed through their legs Black and white- The singer of the Smoking Popes plays guitar and sings. Bright lights envelop behind him Black and white - the rhythm guitarist of the Smoking Popes jumps in the air while performing on stage The singer and guitarist of the Smoking Popes holds his guitar high, straight up and down while playing a solo. Blue light surrounds him in the background
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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BTS // From a gig last year with a great, Portland crew and DP David Vollrath

📸 Fuji x100T

#bts #fujiframez #portlandfilm #oregonfilm #lifeonset #filmcrew #sonycine #sonyvenice #zeissoptics
Monochrome photo of Behind the scenes on a commercial film shoot. A DP and Gaffer look at their frame on a monitor to adjust lighting. They are inside a house, with windows letting in bright ambient light from outside. A camera sits looking up into a car A crew member on a film shoot smiles as their picture is taken, while standing behind a cart of their camera gear A director of photography directs the grips on how he wants the lighting. He is holding a large monitor and pointing while two other crew members listen for adjustments. A 12x12 scrim sits behind them from the middle of frame to the left
May 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Refused - Part 2
04.08.2025 // Portland, OR
@dennislyxzen.bsky.social

Some colorful ones from the Refused show last week. It was one hell of a show

#refused #refusedpartyprogram #photography #concertphotography #concert #canon #portland #hardcore #punk #musicphotography #bluesky
A wide picture of a band, Refused, performing on stage under bright white and purple lights. Backing lights are bright red and light up a banner that reads “Umea Hardcore Refused.” The lower third of the image is filled from left to right with a crowd of hundreds The singer of Refused stands tall with his arms out to the crowd, yelling with them as they sing along to a song. Bright yellow and white lights shine from above and behind. Haze fills the stage allowing the light to shine in beams on and behind the band. The lower 1/4 of the image is a bit of a light streak from a specialty lens filter The singer of Refused holds a microphone and headbangs in front of bright lights of red, white and blue. He is nearly silhouetted by all the light The bass player of Refused lifts his bass over his head and stands in front of him Ampeg amp. He is small in the frame, dominated by bright white and purple lights from over head. Behind him and the amps, bright yellow lights blast luminance - mixing with the white and purple lights above
April 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Refused
04.08.2025 // Portland, OR

What a gift to see, experience and document a band that has meant so much to me. Thanks Refused + @dennislyxzen.bsky.social

#refused #refusedpartyprogram #photography #concertphotography #concert #canon #portland #hardcore #punk #musicphotography
Hardcore band, Refused, performs on stage in front of a massive banner that reads “Umea Hardcore Refused.” Top half of the image is the stage from the lights down to the crowd, bottom half of the image is the crowd and a slight mirroring effect from a specialty lens filter. Image is black and white Singer of the band, Refused, performing on stage. A bright light hits them from behind, which nearly cuts the image in half between bright, white stage lighting and the darkness of the background. Image is black and white The singer and bass player of the band, Refused, airborne and captured on camera mid-jump. Bright white lights shine behind them, behind their amps and the drum set. Their guitar player is engulfed in light on the left side of the image. Image is black and white A black and white image of the band, Refused, performing on stage. POV of from a balcony above and to the right of the stage. A slight blurring effect cuts through the middle of the image from a specialty lens filter. The stage lights create islands of light and streams of darkness.
April 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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04/08/2025 - Quicksand at Revolution Hall (PDX)

#quicksand #qsnyc #posthardcore #portland #concertphotography #canonphotos #bluesky #concert #music #photography #canon
Post-hardcore band, Quicksand performs on stage. Picture is a wide shot of the stage, lights above shine a green tint while backing lights and front lights shine a reddish-orange. Below the band, light streaks fade into the crowd from a specialty lens filter. Guitarist of the band, Quicksilver, jumping with his guitar during a performance. The stage stretches in the foreground to the airborn guitarist. Post-hardcore band, Quicksand performs on stage. Picture taken from a balcony level, overlooking the stage. The guitarist is featured and is brightly lit, while a lens distortion effect obscures the rest of the stage Post-hardcore band, Quicksand performs on stage. A specialty lens filter produces a mirroring effect of the band on stage. Picture is in black and white
April 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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04/08/2025 - HELP at Revolution Hall (PDX), performing with @qsnyc @refused

Go see them on
// 04/26 at Shanghai Tunnel (PDX)
// 04/27 at Clockout Lounge (SEA)

#help #helpifuckingneedit #portland #concertphotography #monochrome #classwarnow #canonphotos #portlandpunk #punkrock #classicmono
The guitarist for the band, HELP, falling onto a tire in front of their drum set during a recent concert The bassist of the band, HELP playing intensely during a recent concert. Image is monochrome The guitarist of the band, HELP playing on stage with bright white lights behind him. Picture is monochrome The band, HELP - performing on stage at a recent show. Light trails from a slow shutter shine on the upper borders of the image. Pic in monochrome
April 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Library

#fujiframez #library #classicmono #monochrome #fuji #x100T #pnw #oregon #bluesky
A lamppost sits dark in the shade while behind it, the sun brightly shines on a wall, at the top of which says “LIBRARY”. Picture is in black and white. Foliage and trees surround the building
April 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Some Production BTS from commercial and film shoots over the years, featuring @blueskyartshow.bsky.social theme, #silhouettes

📸 Fuji x100T

#blueskyartshow #silhouette #fujiframez #photography #bts #fuji #filmset #filmcrew #pnwfilm #portlandfilm #capturethemoment #fujiphoto #bluesky
A cinematographer stands in front of a wall of old windows. The light outside is bright and casts the cinematographer in a silhouette. He holds a camera rig on his shoulder. Outside the windows, we can see another building, which has similar large panes of windows. The interior is dark and only lit from the outside A film set during a still moment. A crew member stands in front of a 4x4 silk, which silhouettes them in the image. The space appears to be a fancy, industrial kitchen. The interior is dark, save for the light source the crew member stands in front of, and light spills onto a metal table with a stove burner from an outside window in the distance of the photo A dolly grip checks a setting on a Fischer dolly. The image sees dolly track in the foreground, and stretches into the image to where the dolly and the grip are positioned. They are inside a mausoleum. Flowers line the walls, with names of the deceased, unable to the read clearly. On the other side of the room, bright light fills a window to illuminate the space. It is on the other side of the dolly and grip and casts them in a silhouette Cinema Lights and 12x12 scrims fill the background while a crew member walks in front of the structure, silhouetted by the bright light in an otherwise dark space.
April 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Łańcut Synagogue // Łańcut, Poland

📸 Fuji x100T

@blueskyartshow.bsky.social #blueskyartshow #arch #ŁańcutSynagogue #Poland #architecture #bluesky #x100t #Łańcut #Synagogue #fuji #fujiphotos #fujiframez #travelphotography #travel
The central podium in the Łańcut Synagogue in Łańcut, Poland. A square podium with decorative arches opening on all four sides. Intricate textures, shapes, Hebrew writing and designs decorate the arch and surrounding synagogue. Colors of gold, greens, deep blue, yellow, lime, pink. A window in the background lets in bright sunlight, illuminating the room. 2 walls of Łańcut Synagogue, meeting in a corner near the left-center of the frame. On the right, arches with Hebrew text line the wall. Above the arches near the corner, 2 windows let in bright sunlight, illuminating the room and adjacent wall. The wall directly parallel to camera view has 3 windows high on the wall, bordered with a dark greens, intricate designs in yellow and green surround the upper most windows, another arch of Hebrew text sits beside the two lower windows and the corner where the walls meet.
March 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Cherry Blossoms Blooming

📸 Fuji X-T3 // 50-230mm

#cherryblossoms #fujiframez #photography #flowers #blossoms #nature #outdoors #fuji #xt3 #photos #pnw #oregon #trees #bluesky
Focus on upper center of a sunlit cherry blossom in bloom, purple and pink hues surround it from other cherry blossoms, including very blurry ones that are out of focus in the foreground. The sky is a light blue behind the flowers A cherry blossom in focus in the upper center of the photo, backlit by the sun. Deep yellow hue over the whole image from the sun facing the lens, while the surrounding flowering show a vibrant pink purple. Flowers in the foreground are blurry and out of focus and help frame the in focus flower in the upper center of the photo
March 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Always Anti-Fascist
From a work trip to NYC (2018)

📸 Fuji x100T

#fujiframez #newyork #bluesky #antifascist #nyc #x100t #graffiti #streetphotography #cityscape #photography #fujiphoto
The side of a run down brick building, painted yellow on top, and black below - covered in graffiti and anti-fascist/anti-nazi posters that read “Alife Katsu.” The posters appear worn and torn and fit the decaying nature of the rest of the building. To the left of center, a window pane with broken glass sits behind a metal barrier The New York City skyline at dusk. The left side of the image still showing a bright orange light hitting the distant NYC buildings, a river and docks in the foreground of the image A blue and silver motorcycle sits in front of a yellow and black brick building. Above the moto is an anti-fascist / anti-Nazi poster with a cross buster over a swastika that reads “Alife Katsu”. Several posters can be seen further down the wall. The building os covered in graffiti People walk ahead on a covered sidewalk - a green wall on their right, orange mesh covering from a construction zone on the left. A person in center frame is framed within the light coming from outside the walkway. Orange incandescent lights shine above the walkers
March 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Calm Skies at Sunset
📸 Fuji X-T3 // 50-230mm

#fujiframez #photography #paintedsky #xt3 #fuji #oregon #nature #bluesky #sunset #pnw #outdoors
A tall image of a sky with soft, light clouds - blue sky at the top, fading down to an orange sunset and at the bottom, the dark branches of a tree reaching up into the frame. The sky looks painted with soft white strokes of cloud breaking up the blues and oranges
March 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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The ride up was nice, but the journey down was epic

Zermatt, Switzerland (2018)

@blueskyartshow.bsky.social submission for #thejourney

#blueskyartshow #mountainbikes #outdoor #photography #bikes #travel #switzerland #zermatt
Silhouette of a mountain biker, against a bright fog at the top of a mountain lift. The surroundings look very metallic and grey in color. Lifts can be seen fading into the fog in the deep background
March 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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A Study in Pink
📸 Fuji X-T3 // EF24-105 ƒ4

#flower #pink #fujiframez #fujinon #photography #naturephotography #nature #trees #dogwood #xt3 #fuji #fujiphoto
A blossomed, pink flower of the dogwood tree sits center frame, surrounded by an out of focus backdrop of more flowers from the tree
March 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Waitin’ for Tacos…
📸 iPhone 14 Pro

#tacos #restaurant #photography #iphonography
In the foreground, a dimly lit restaurant, POV from the bar. In the lower right side of frame, bar bottles can be seen. In the background, a doorway is brightly illuminated revealing a working kitchen with two people preparing a meal order. Fluorescent lights hang above in the kitchen, casting bright light with a slightly green hue
March 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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📸 Canon R6mii // RF15-35mm

#monochrome #canon #photography #blackandwhite #portrait #shutterdrag #toddler #canonphoto #canonR6mii #speedlite #kids
Black and white photo. A toddler reaches for the camera, its hand covering most of the frame (out of focus). Their face, obscured by the hand just a bit, is in focus with a smile and a light in their eyes. Behind them is just a dark void Black and white photo. A toddler sits and looks off to the side, slightly above camera. A white streak of light stretches from the child’s face to the corner of the frame
March 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Some BTS from the feature film, Raging Midlife, premiering tonite at Cinema21 in Portland, OR.

DP: Eric Macey
1st AC: 👍

📸 Fuji x100T

#photography #bts #fujiframez #paulaabdul #ragingmidlife #pnwfilm #portlandfilm #x100t
Monochrome image from a film set. Paula Abdul stands in a wrestling ring. A white silk sits on a stand in front of her. To the left, outside of the ring, a cinematographer frames the shot with the camera on a job arm A cinematographer looks into the eye piece of his camera. Behind him, assorted crew walk on the beach on a sunny day Paula Abdul sits with the director before a scene in Raging Midlife. A bright light bounces off a white sheet behind them A cinematographer sits in a wrestling ring holding the camera on his shoulder. The camera is blocking the cinematographer’s head. 2 crew hold the wrestling ropes down, presumably helping the operator enter the ring. A bright light shines from the opposite end of the building
March 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Shutter fun
📸 Canon R6mii // RF15-35mm ƒ2.8

#abstract #shutterdrag #longexposure #canon #photography #motionblur #canonR6mii #slowshutter
A low shutter creates an effect where the highlights bleed throughout the image. A young child stands center frame, obscured by the motion blur of a low shutter speed. A bright window and red table to his left bleed into the frame and obscure the child, creating a rather abstract image
March 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Cozy
📸 Canon R6mII // RF15-35mm f2.8

#dogsofbluesky #dogsofflashes #dogs #photography #pets #canon #petphotography #canonr6mii #animals
A short haired dog with light brown/tan fur rests on a bundled fake fur blanket of the same color in front of a teal painted fireplace. Various children’s toys are scattered on the ground around them
February 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Abandoned Home
📸 Olympus OM-1 // 50mm
Ilford HP5 Plus B+W 400

#blueskyartshow #abandoned #shootfilm #35mm #olympus #om1 #monochrome #photography #blackandwhite #bwphotography
A black and white picture of the exterior of the top floor of a house. A tree sits black against a white sky to the left of the house, and another tree is on the right, but hard to see much detail due to a flash hitting the undeveloped film
February 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Geese Overhead
📸 iPhone 14

#photography #blackandwhite #naturephotography #iphonephotography #nature
Dozens of Geese fly overhead in a V formation
February 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Seattle - 2018
📸 Fuji x100T

#architecture #fujiframez #streetphotography #fuji #photography
A view of the Seattle skyline from the docks, the sun casts a harsh shadow
February 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Aurora over Oregon - Oct 2024
📸 Canon R6mii // 24-105 f4

#auroraborealis #longexposure #photography #astrophotography #canon
Silhouette of a power line and its lines in front of a starry sky with an aurora borealis adding magenta and light green hues to the sky Power lines cross the bottom left corner with an Aurora borealis behind. Stars scatter throughout a sky of green, magenta and blue
February 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Five Iron Frenzy @ Hawthorne Theater
📸 Fuji x100T in Monochrome

#fiveironfrenzy #skanowmorethanever #ska #falsemetal #portland #fujiframez #fuji #photography
Five Iron Frenzy performs on stage at Hawthorne Theater in Portland. Picture in black and white Reese Roper of Five Iron Frenzy performs at Hawthorne Theater. Picture in black and white
February 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM