Death Angel‘s Mark Osegueda

@deathangel @nuclearblastusa @nuclearblasteu

My copy of Death Angel’s “a thrashumentary.” arrived yesterday. I started watching it today. Just after minute 48 there is a long look at this photo. One of these days I’ll scan the other photos from that night in 1987 and get them up here. This package is loaded with tons of material. I’m about an hour into it, and it looks like there are still hours to go. Plus it includes a second disc of a live show in San Francisco. Pick up a copy here.

Posted on August 18th, 2015 under Other. Tags: concert photography, death angel, metal, nikon d7000. Comments Off on Death Angel – a thrashumentary.

Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt at Oakland’s Fox Theater

@OfficialOpeth @OpethJp @foxoakland

Posted on April 17th, 2015 under Other. Tags: concert photography, fox theater, metal, nikon d7000, opeth. Comments Off on Happy birthday, Mikael Åkerfeldt!

Iron Maiden ticket stub @ Cow Palace in San Francisco
(March 21, 1985)

@IronMaiden @cowpalacesf @ShorelineAmp

… I saw Iron Maiden for the first time. Thirty years and six more shows later, and I’m ready to see them again.

Iron Maiden @ Shoreline in August of 2012

Posted on March 21st, 2015 under Other. Tags: california, concert photography, iron maiden, metal, nikon d7000, sigma 85mm f/1.4 lens. Comments Off on 30 years ago today …

Derek Norris formerly of the Oakland A’s

In one month and one day (4/5/15) the 2015 regular season for Major League Baseball will begin. I’m not as excited as I was last year. I really loved the A’s team for the first half of 2014, before Billy Beane got greedy and thought trading away the future and favorites like Yoenis Céspedes would make the A’s better for the stretch run of 2014. It didn’t; in fact it made the team much worse. Then, in the off season, he got rid of much of what was left so we no longer have Norris, Brandon Moss, or Josh Donaldson. Hopefully 2015 isn’t a complete disaster for my A’s.

Posted on March 4th, 2015 under Other. Tags: AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II, baseball, nikon d7000, Nikon TC-17E II 1.7x Teleconverter, o.co, oakland, sports photography. Comments Off on 2015 MLB

My random, desktop image of the day is from our trip to New York a few summers ago. I tried to find out information on this sarcophagus online, and I hit the jackpot. Here it was before coming out of the ground over 110 years ago after laying there for 2,500 years!

Posted on February 3rd, 2015 under Other. Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, museums, new york, nikon d7000. Comments Off on Egyptian Sarcophagus