[elky] Re: OT: went to a blues club last nite....
- From: Robert Adams <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:38:10 -0600
The important question is... Was the BBQ any good? I'm
hoping santa brings me a smoker this year.
Robert Adams
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...or more accurately, I went to a BBQ joint where blues is played on a
> regular basis. http://www.patsbbq.com/ It was my first time there, but I
> doubt that it will be my last.
> Candye Kane was the performer for the evening.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candye_Kane The Wiki article is pretty
> accurate except for the lack of content regarding her finding a "home" with
> the blues, although it states that she "discovered" female blues performers
> when she went back to college in 1986.
>
> She freely admits to a "checkered past" which is quite an understatement.
> Nonetheless, I've been a fan of hers for a long time (especially her kicking
> a "hard drug" habit) and had an absolutely wonderful time. I guess I
> asserted myself as an eccentric pro photographer (and that would be
> different how? I was the only one there wearing a Nomex Firesuit jacket.
> <G>) and kinda worked alongside the roaming videographer. The club owner
> asked me for photos and I had to tell him, "nobody gets photos from Ray the
> Rat for free," although I told him that I'd be putting an album on FaceBook
> and one on my own server:
> http://www.raytherat.com/events/CandyeKane@PatsBBQ/Welcome.html
>
> The shooting conditions were far from optimal. Most of the available light
> shots were done at 1/13th, F5 and 3200 ISO. It was pretty damned dark.
> Then the walls were red (black on the stage) and the ceiling black. And
> there was this vertical 4x4 in my way, although I just went wherever I
> wanted to shoot. I used the available light, even if it cut WAY down on the
> keeper ratio. I got about 1 in 16, which was more than I
> expected...although some of 'em are flash shots, but not many.
>
> Then I came home and had a pretty decent night's sleep. What a frikkin
> miracle. Ohh...one other thing: I asked for and received a hug from Candye
> which just made my damned day completely. I doubt that anybody else would
> care about that, but it meant a lot to me.
>
> r
>
>
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