Enjoying The View

While The Old Blog has taken a rather musical turn, I do still try and take some other photographs as well.  It's just hard to find the time sometimes to get around to playing with them.  As a result, the archives, already pretty full to begin with, have gotten even larger.  The whole gang took a little weekend trip in August to get out of the city for a little while.  Our annual vacation took us to a lake in the Parc régionale Montagne du Diable.  It was a very nice place with a lake, walking trails a nice waterfall.  Also lots of feathered friends.  Their phorographs may one day escape the archives as well.  Once the sun began to set, the beach would empty rather quickly.  It became rather peaceful place.  These two chairs were resting nicely on the beach, so I decided to share their relaxing view.  The photograph was taken at f/7.1, 1/250sec, ISO 100 at 70mm.

The Tea Party At Théâtre Beanfield

We're a little bit backed up on getting my concert photographs up here on The Old Blog.  I suppose we will catch up at some point, but this would be a good time to remind you that my concert photographs can be seen in a much more timely manner by visiting V13 Media, which you can do by following the link.  If you'd like an even more direct route to my photographs, you can visit my personal page over there but using the following link.  The storm clouds had gathered as I made my way to Montréal.  As I drove in front of the Théâtre Beanfield, the rain had finally come to an end.  The clouds began to part and a giant rainbow hung over the city.  There couldn’t have been a better omen for the great night that was ahead.  The Tea Party was in town and the city was buzzing.  The show wasn’t just sold out it was oversold.  The Beanfield was packed tight with people even jammed up against the bar.  It made for a difficult walk around the historic venue.  However the building was buzzing in anticipation and the atmosphere was electric.  And not just because of the thunder storm that had just rolled through.  The Tea Party forever share a bond with Montréal.  The crowd was very vocal in letting it be known.  On more than one occasion, a loud “I love you!” would rise from the crowd.  In his best Han Solo, singer Jeff Martin replied “I know.”  Just one of several little moments shared between The Captain and his adoring crowd.  The band opened with “Writing’s On The Wall” and it didn’t take long for the crowd to be cheering at full voice.  Jeff Martin has a special presence on stage.  He is part rock star, part musical shaman.  He leaves you hanging on every work with the way he introduces each song.  Offering to take us on a spiritual journey through Istanbul before the band played “The Bazaar”.  He also led the crowd in a singing of “Happy Birthday” for Jeff Burrows, who celebrated a few days before the show.  He reminisced about the 1990’s Canadian music scene and The Tea Party’s place in it. And dedicated a mix of “Somewhere Only We Know”, “Bobcaygeon” and “The Messenger” to the recently departed Donald Tarlton.  He mentioned how Donald had been important in the breaking of the band and it made for a very emotional moment.  The TeaParty rocked through “Temptation” to bring the main set to an end.  An encore of “Winter Solstice” and the mash up of “Sister Awake”, “Paint It Black” and “Heroes” sent everyone home happy.  These days, the world seems to be serving up lots of thunderstorms.  Luckily, The TeaParty is around to provide us all with some rainbows.  All of the photographs were taken at f/3.2 while using various different shutter speeds, ISO setting and focal lengths.  Here are the rest of the photographs that I took while The Tea Party performed on the Théâtre Beanfield stage.

If you would like to find out more about The Tea Party and their music, you can do so by following the link to their website.  If you would like to see the photographs that I took of Rouge Pompier, who performed earlier that night you can do so by following the link.  A big thank you goes out to The Tea Party's management team at Round One Sports & Entertainment, Evenko and Christopher Gonda at V13 Media for getting me a pass to photograph the show.  As always, it is very much appreciated.  The Tea Party aren't currently touring, but when they are, it is a show not to be missed.  Don't you dare miss it if they play in a city near you.