neilferris's PhotoBlog

Gibraltar

2007-07-27T01:18:59Z

Brianna would kill me if she saw I posted these pictures... shes a pain to take pictures of because after every shot it's "DELETE IT DELETE IT!!" And even more frustrating, I see no reason why she would be so self-conscious about her pictures, do you? I wish I was that photogenic! But yeah these are from Gibraltar and that place is awesome. Go there.

Camping

2007-04-29T11:08:36Z

From a camping trip with my friends. It was amazing, climbing up rocks in the moon light then watching the clouds drift past the moon on the bluff. And all the laughs, and math book burnings. What a good time!

The Coup

2007-04-20T01:24:53Z

This is Boots Riley and me. The Coup performed at the Memorial Union earlier tonight. This is one of the pictures, I'll post more later. Unfortunately I did not get many pictures of the Coup performing. There was a huge crowd and it was hard to get pictures. Plus their show was so tight I just wanted to enjoy the music rather than pressure myself to be an unofficial photographer. The concert was amazing. There were lots of opening groups, and a couple of featured MC's from the Madison area high schools. I was very impressed with these guys my age. They were really good! And more so their lyrics were conscious. Very inspiring seeing them perform and how seriously they take their craft. Boots Riley is the nicest guy ever. I was a little nervous going up to him after their sound check, but he was extraordinarily friendly. You'd think that being such a big artist he would find it annoying to have people come up to him to say, "ohh I like your music so much...." but Mr. Riley was amazingly friendly and nice. Being a musician myself, I know that sound checks often are frustrating and being on the road is taxing in and of itself. It takes a truly feeling human being to endure and transcend the wear that a musician experiences on the road, then to be so giving and friendly. So thank you Boots Riley. You are an awesome guy. Italic Text

Germany... Vol. I

2007-04-12T18:46:38Z

Over the next couple weeks I'll take you on an abridged version of our jazz band's trip to Germany. If you're on Facebook I have all these pictures posted in my albums, so you can see them if you like. The first three are of our band on the bus to O'Hare. The first guy is Ian Keats, then Cavan, and finally Garry. Then you see us at the youth hostel in Darmstadt. The four people in the sixth photo are our directors and general chaperons. Then you can see more of us with our German buddies from Darmstadt. The one with the piano keyboard is Brett pointing out the "H" on the German keyboard. Weird! Then you have the many faces of Michael Nonte. Mike is a great guy, very funny. Then the last photo is the SBS band practicing. I've already shown these pictures about 7 times... all 500+ so sorry I'm not writing much. Feel free to ask any questions however! -Neil.

Images

2007-01-20T01:26:16Z

YMCA Show

2007-01-20T02:05:49Z

A few pics from the show at the Y. I remember those days of being in a ska band.

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2006-12-24T15:58:40Z

Hanging out at Luka's

2006-12-17T04:28:13Z

It's been a while since I posted last. Been very busy. Earlier tonight we hung out at Luke's house and watched some movies. I had my camera to capture the fun. Luke totally got owned by Buster in the wrestling match. And Dakota thinks her muscles are bigger than Garry's. They're both wrong, mine are bigger than both of theirs. But I didn't rub it in their faces or anything. And if you haven't seen the movie Clerks you absolutely must. It's awesome and better than Clerks II. -Neil.

Basketball

2006-11-27T19:03:20Z

I present to you... Jon Lange. I liked this shot, but when I take basketball pics sometimes the exposure gets messed up and I don't know why/how to fix it. They just turn out dark and grainy. The funny thing is, that if I take them in rapid succession, the first one might come out nice, then the second and subsequent ones are poor exposures. Does anyone know why this is? Hmm...

Sports photos numero dos!

2006-11-19T00:33:06Z

Well, after a looong week I'm finally getting some down time :) I'm so glad that I got the big sports photo assignment done, it was a big challenge since I've never done sports photos before. You learn a lot when you're on assignment. I felt like I should post some of these since I took so much time taking them. -Neil.