Heat and light.

Solas played a fantastic sold-out show at Tumbledown Farm in Brookfield, NH over the weekend, and I was lucky enough to be invited to attend! And better yet, the camera policy was extremely liberal... Solas is hands-down my favorite contemporary Celtic band. Seamus Eagen (shown here playing the mandolin and flute) is one of the most talented multi-instrumentalists I have had the pleasure of listening to. Wolfeboro Folk (http://www.wolfeborofolk.com/) has made the barn at Tumbledown Farm their new home. We opted for their entire experience, which includes an organic, farm-raised dinner, great music in an intimate, yet inspiring space, and a dozen free-range eggs compliments of the farm on your way out the door! This was a wonderful night. Hint: If you go to a winter show, wear layers--they haven't yet completely finessed the heat issue in this space--it was very warm upstairs and a little cool downstairs.

Getting creative.

I have been spending a lot of time with my guitar this month, playing and even attempting to write a bit. Nothing I'd call the "next big hit" as yet, but I'll keep you all posted. ;) We have been experiencing arctic cold these last couple of weeks here on the Seacoast, and it has been kind of harsh outside for my usual photo-walks. So, I have been playing around inside instead. To create this effect I lit the guitar with a halogen on one side only and then pushed the contrast on the resulting image, applied the "find edges" filter and then super-saturated the result. Cloned out anything that seemed irrelevant--and voila!--a colorful little tribute to my Takemine.