With a Little Help From My Musical Friends

These images are photos capturing my Fort Worth friends who also make music in their respective bands, my musician role models who are famous and little known, and those who shared in there minds, motivation, and our conversations from our fingers when making music. Many of my exposures are long, thirty seconds to two or three minutes. On some images I popped a hand held flash numerous times to capture elements of sharpness in the subject. The virtual volume in the images, created by the motions of the musicians while performing and practicing in extended exposures, represents the imagined visual rendering of those invisible sound waves of the music. Vibrations in the air have a wave like effect on me and the way I feel. Even the hum of an air conditioner has a tone or frequency that influences how the listener feels. It may be an unconscious or unaware influence but an influence none the less. Some sounds or vibrations in the air have a distinctly good or bad feeling of influence on who listens. I find it interesting to imagine the possible correlation between a sound's emotional weight and the emotional weight of a photograph capturing the act of making making sounds.