R. Patryce Bryant - I'll Trust

Last Saturday I had the very unexpected (last minute) opportunity to cover Miss Bryant's CD release party. She literally called me Friday and I happened to have a cancellation, so I was there on Sat.

I wanted to spend a good 15-20 minutes prior to her sound check to get some decent portrait shots outside, but I was only able to squeeze 7 or so minutes of her time! What a 7 minutes it was too!!! Bam Bam Bam - felt like Emeril there for a bit!

I was absolutely blown away by her voice and her lungs, I mean the sound check gave me goosebumps even if it was the same 8 bars over and over, but, she is obviously a perfectionist and when she went on later that evening - she nailed it as did the band.

Patryce I wish you all the luck with your new CD and stay grounded as you are and I think all of your hard work and devotion will definitely pay off...

This image was one of the first I took that evening, I just saw that reserved row sign and had to do something with it!



Here are some of the images from our 7-minute-shoot-out! This image just shows how peaceful this wonderfully talented woman is.. I didn't know her personality all that well at this point, so was being on my best professional behavior!



I saw this fence, and had to use it as a prop, in several images actually. The look on her face here had me confused at first (she's giving me that "what in the world is wrong with this guy look")



But that look only lasted a minute when she made some silly comment and cracked herself up!



Of course, without a doubt I needed to shoot her through the fence as well!



Patryce it was a pleasure working with you!!!

-Rick O

Open Studio's West Haven

This weekend there were a lot of artists displaying their creations at various places throughout the West Haven & New Haven area. I stopped by the West Haven Studio on Elm Street on Saturday.

There was so much junk in this place and you could just imagine all of the history associated with the building which was built in the early 1800's if my memory serves me correctly.

One of the many doors nailed shut within the old foundry.



A section of the outside wall where some of the boiler pipes were located - they knocked a hole out to remove the boiler years ago and it has slowly deteriated.



Larry Cowles - fellow photographer displaying some of his work and taking notes (I think!)



The location where the boiler once resided - this was really really interesting - you could almost feel the history of the place.



Some old mechanical portable contraption which looked like it was used to hoist up skids.



Close up of the wall pictured above.



Mike Stock of "Stockboy Designs" was one of the artists displaying his work, this is a partial image of a much larger painting.



Ryan of "Ackt!", another one of the contributing artists catching a moment with his lady!



Mike Stock sporting one of his own creations/designs (the hoodie and art)



-Rick O