BMHC PHOTOGRAPHY

NO TIME

2010-01-20T15:45:00.000-08:00

If anyone actually checks this and cares what I do with my life and photography then just letting you know I will most likely not be updating this anymore. As I now have a full time job and am forced to share the computer I will now more frequently be updating on this:

http://bmhc-photography.tumblr.com/

Although the updates will only be brief (and most likley less 'professional'), it will still give u an idea of what I'm up to in the land of the Brits.

Thanks
Daniel Knott

Too Much..

2009-12-03T13:39:00.000-08:00

Been really lazy and busy to update this thing.
im so far behinde there is so much i havent updated.
But i have been more frequently updating on tumblr
check it out:
http://bmhc-photography.tumblr.com/

And check out photos on my flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmhc_photography/

But recently my hard drive fucked up, most likley due to a huge leak in the roof that caused alot of stuff in the room it was in to get wet. Which is goin to devestate me as all my photos ever are on there. Really should have backed my work up in more than one place!

Anyway seen quite a few bands since i last updated;

like

Wolf City from Reno, which is pretty much all the memebers of xAFBx's new band.

xAFBx's Last show
London's Special Move
Iron Age
& Rise And Fall
Also saw Madball last night, but only got like 3 shots as thier 'Possie' wouldn't let anyone use flashes, saying it was industry standard, when they were playin in a small pub venue...

Anyway also have had a few publications which ive been stoked on;

In the latest Big Cheese Magazine;

My pix were used for a page article on the London Tattoo Convention

(to view large click here)
Pretty stoked on that,
And also my good friends in Never Again are using one of my images on their fourth-coming 7"

Make sure you grap one as soon as it comes out later this year.

And finally the central image in this advertisement for Thirty Days Of Night Records I was pretty happy to see:

Lazy Fuck!

2009-11-01T16:02:00.000-08:00

I have been so shit and lazy, but also busy. Which in turn leads to the fact that i haven't updated this thing in over a month. So I'll compensate for that with a less lazy summary of my last month in photos and text, for those who still actually read or care about my photos or what I have been doing;

(For some reason I now can't get my images for my flickr, so they aren't going to be as good quality, to see better quality go here)

Got a 3 day pass for the london tattoo convention which was sick, but only made it to one of the days:

-Tobaco Dock-T.A.T.T.O.O Guns
-Vadar and Blaster Flash
-Mosaic
-Figure Head
- Posters

-Suicide Girls

-Skate art

-Nikole Lowe from London Ink

-Bowling Pins

Valerie From Firth Street Tattoos

- Thomas Hooper

-Tim Hendricks from Miami Ink

- Fresh
- Peice by Shige

-Uncle Allan

Was lucky enough to see ceremony a second time live who are a great live band, so intense, also Paint it Black player, who play great but was impossible to shoot, to much rukus;

Also check out Gravemaker and This Is Hell from the US at their London show;

-Ceremony

- The Only decent pic i got of Paint It Black

Made it down to Southend in Essex, to see a few mates which was really good, finally saw some English coast!

-Rupert took me for a 'proper' English breakfast

- Rusteh Chains

- Adventure Land

-Southend Central Sunset

Caught Gravemaker and This Is Hell in London:

-Gravemaker

- This Is Hell

This stuff i have been listening to non stop:

-Gravemaker : Home is Where the Heartache Is
- Dirty Money: EP

- Doomriders : Darkness Come Alive

- Converge : Axe To Fall, An Amazing album!!

Was lucky enough to have the opportunity to head to Paris with my mates band Hang the Bastard for a one off show. Was a lil rush, rush, but still had an awsome time;

-The Adventure Begins

- Everyones bored on the ferry...
- Until Sina gets the Party started!
-French Buildings from the van
-It Rain for a moment

-The Smoke stacks were smokey in France
-Simone was pretty stoked

-Stu and Sina enjoing the free beer in out change rooms.
-Sam enjoing the fruit...-And so dose Simone;

-Thier reaction to the opening band, a French Hip Hop/metal fusion band...- The French Hip Hop/Metal Fusion Band...
-Simone and Stu Getting Siked..
- Chris is Chillin...
-Gettin Siked In the Elevator

-Hang The Bastard Live

- Alpinist

-French Mosh...

(MORE COMING, NOT FINISHED YET. JUST TO TIRED TO FINISH THIS AT 2 am)

Busy Times

2009-10-06T05:30:00.001-07:00

Again I have been terrible with updating this thing. The combination of a full time job with the lil time outside of that seeing as much of the country,as well as friends and bands doesn't give me much time for anything else.
Anyway England has been awesome in the month and a half I've been here, met some sick people, seen some amazing bands and seen some amazing sites as well. My time to go back home is creeping sooner than I'd like. But here is another summary of the last few weeks.

Saw Death Before Dishonour two times in one weekend which was awesome seeming I had missed them first time around. First time with Arkangle (Belgium beatdown) and mates Hang The Bastards who I'm going to Paris with in a couple of weeks;

* Hang The Bastards

*Arkangle

* Death Before Dishonor

Then saw them again as apart of a big hardcore all dayer in Kent, with some good bands such as Brutality Will Prevail (Doomy Heavy Metalcore), Pay No Respect (Kent's Firstblood), Santa Karla (good stuff), TRC (London, Hip Hop hardcore), Hang the Bastards Again (Doomy Hardcore, with good riffs), Never Again (Good Straightedge Hardcore) and Run (Good dudes good music);

* Run
*Never Again

-supposedly this image is going to be used on a shirt of theirs and their up coming LP

* Santa Karla

* Hang The Bastards

* TRC

* Tara and Jack, Good Kids (so much sexual tension...)

* Brutality Will Prevail

* Death Before Dishonor

Been doing a lot more slow exposure (some may say too much), but I love playing around with it, like I did when i first started,

* Greebo, From Hang the Bastards
Also made my way down to Southampton to see that part of England and check out Misery Signals who are one of my fav bands and were amazing live, along with English metalcore leaders Your Demise and for the first time in England; The Number 12 Looks Like You from America (Crazy, Jazzy Metal/grind/death), who were a very strange and entertaining live band.

* Southampton Harbour

* Night Streets

* Locals. Koreac

* Number 12 Looks Like You (US)

*Your Demise

* Misery Signals

There is lots more like London Tattoo Convention 09, Ceremony & Paint It Black, My trip to Essex and St Albans And Grave Maker and This is Hell Pix in the next Post. Promise it'll be sooner this time.

2009-09-10T13:43:00.000-07:00

Another jam packed two weeks, of shows, sorting out stuff like train passes and other certain things, especially as the idea of how expensive everything really is over here. I've spent so much on travel as it's triple the amount I was paying in Aus for a quarter of the distance. Just crazy. Luckily this train pass will cut 1/3 of the price. Also finally getting use to the idea that pretty much everything seems cheap, but is actually double the price as compared to the Aus dollar.
Anyway also been going to so many more amazing shows,
Was lucky enough to see Bane, Down To Nothing, Lewd Acts & Gold Kids 2 times which was sick;

-Gold Kids

-Lewd Acts

- Down To Nothing

- Bane

These shows were amazing, then luckily a few days later saw Polar Bear Club and Wilhelm Scream;

- A Wilhelm Scream

- "Tour", "Debt"

Alot of people in the hardcore punk scenes are Straightedge and Vegan, so many of my friends brought me along to the annual Vegan Festival which was great. Had some really tasty food, and learnt some interesting stuff;

Then after the vegan fest made it over to a show with local band Abolition, Jailbait, Dirty Money and Americans War Hungry and RZL DZL(who i had to leave early for to catch my train, which i missed anyway and had to catch a hour train pay £25 for a 5 min taxi);

- Abolition

- Jailbait
- Dirty Money

- War Hungry

Tomorrow off to see Death Before Dishonor which I'm keen for, and supporting them is Arkangel from Belgium and the good dudes from Hang the Bastard, who I'm doing promos of for their next Split with Brutality Will Prevail. Awesome bands.

2 Weeks In Summary

2009-09-01T05:12:00.000-07:00

I am meant to give back this laptop and in turn the Internet tomorrow. So this may be the last post I can do until we get our Internet sorted. Which is taking longer than is meant to. Anyway here is a Summary of the last two weeks:

Been checking out a lot of museums (which are all free here) and sites:

* The Rosetta Stone

* The Thames

* Japanese Art

*Totema

* Section of the Berlin Wall

And so many international bands; like Hoods:

And Bringin' It Down, which are a Judge cover band with members of Judge and Project X;

And BOLD, Such a good band live;

* Set Your Goals.
It was First time I'd been to this venue and I didn't realise they were so strict on photographers. So i was able to sneak my camera in. But it meant i had to keep a low profile (No Flash). And as my camera is shit I got some very speckley pix. Which I think work well with some of these images.

* Trash Talk @ the Fighting Cock Pub

As well as seeing some really cool new local bands like:

Dirty Money

Hang The Bastards, Really good stuff, check them out

Battle Of Wolf

Cold Snap:

Vice City, Good Dudes

Also was lucky enough to check Bane And Down To Nothing two Days In A row. With Gold Kids, An amazing Italian Hardcore Band, And Lewd Acts, A crazy American band. Pix will be up soon.

A Week In America

2009-08-27T03:47:00.001-07:00

Finally my external hard drive is all fixed, and luckily our really really nice South African next door neighbours let me borrow their computer and Internet for a week while their on holiday in Wales.

America was such a great time, only got a week there, staying on Venice beach, LA. Was such an interesting place, with great architecture, really weird and wonderful people and everything is so much cheaper. I Had A sick time.

From the start of the holiday, I could tell this was going to be an good one. At the airport my family was stopped before we got on the plane. This kinda worried me until we found out we had been upgraded to Premium Economy. Then after my entertainment system wasn't working, I was upgraded to Business Class. Was an awesome trip and i slept well.

*Watched Wolverine

*View From the Top

* L.A in all it's glory

On the way from the airport to the flat, saw some strange and interesting sites sites:

*Patriotism*(Chemist...)

Went shopping straightaway for supplies.

*ahh the sugary goodness

* Stuff Tastes Shit

Ended up eating so much shit while in America, two staples where:

*Breakfast

*3 Times a day

* View from roof of our apartment

Where we stayed literally was on the Venice Beach Board Walk, Was so good,

all along the beach front they had skate and bike 'freeways' which got you around pretty easily. So me and my brother Eddie:
* Miami Vice Stylin

spent the week often exploring. And went to some cool places and met some cool people:

*Exaggerated.

I thing I couldn't quite use to was how acceptable Weed was here, and how many dispensaries they had, like this:
And this
Which means there were also lots of these

which had a lot of these, strange alien bongs:

I was also surprised about how many tattoo parlours there were along the board walk:

They were all so friendly, but I spent most of my time at this particular parlour:

House Of Ink, They were really cool people working there, and I got to shoot some promotional stuff for some of the artists:

*Andrea Reverent

Felix

Also jus did some shots of Steve doing some work on some customers:

The skate park was jus down the road from where we stayed, so was really good to go down there and get back into some of my skating and also take some pix. Was a really good location, heaps good to go to in the arvos.

* Skater Dawg, He was so good to watch, all over the park.

* My brother took this, hence me watching him with my camera.

Also went to check out another local spot thats been featured in lots of skate movies, there was some young kids doing some sick stuff.

Later in the week we went to Universal Studios. Was very expensive, but worth it, the rides had such high production value, and had amazing effects.

* The Simpsons ride was a crazy simulator, So good, Such good graphics.
* It took three of these to get to one half of the park to the other

*Raging Hulk, and Eddie

*O.G, Blues Bros Car

The Jurrasic Park Ride was by far the best, I love the movie, and the ride was so good. Just a little short.

*Starts of Peaceful*Then goes to shit

* Then it ends like this:

* It was such a hot day, these things saved us, and some posing mexican kids too by the looks of it;* Surposedly Crash Bandicoot is a Universal Studios Character...

* Wall-E
* Surposed Marilyn Monroe look alike

* An another one, Made of Jelly Beans

*More Healthy food

The final day in America I was able to make a quick visit to the local freak show which was closed most of the time I was there, some strange stuff, like ;

*Conjoined Turtles
* Sword swollowing,( this guy was in the guinniess world record for youngest sword swollower and most sword swollows in a year which was 3,500 or something.)

* And A 5 legged dog amongst many other strange things.
I had an amazing time in America and having an amazing time still in England, Seen some great bands, seeing Trash Talk tomorrow, will get all the pics up soon.

New Experiences

2009-08-18T06:29:00.000-07:00

With being so busy while in America, having an amazing time and no Internet. Venice beach is full of so many Amazing and interesting people and places to see, I had so much fun. Now being here in England establishing ourselves in a new home with no computer and no Internet except the free Internet I'm using from the Library I haven't been able to update this thing. But i have heaps of pix I'm keen to chuck up from America.

They'll be up later this week i hope. When i get Internet.

Anyway for now this is where I'm living:

( Ill get better pix soon)

Anticipation

2009-08-08T02:04:00.000-07:00

It is now 15 hours before I leave the country. Ill be in America for a week then off to England for 5 months, then America for 3 weeks again on the way back. The last few weeks have been intense, a whole lot of packing and sorting out stuff not just what i need for England/America, but also every thin that I'm not taking away with me, that I'll need when I'm back to move to Brisbane, as my family would have totally moved out of the house to England.
Also what really has been taking a toll on me is the many potentially permanent goodbyes I've had to make to many people. Some who I have spent over half my life with, this is truly a defining moment in my life. But In a way I am really excited for what my future will hold. I'll Just have to see.
It has been a long time since I have updated anything on this, I have been working hard on getting my portfolio, sorted, print, mounted and sent away before i leave. Check it out here.
But I am going to make an extra effort to keep this thing up to date with my journey as I go along.
Anyway that's all i have for now. Keep checkin in.
Daniel

2 Weeks 5 Days & Counting...

2009-07-20T03:14:00.000-07:00

It again has been awhile since I've posted anything, Just been so busy sorting everything out for University and moving to England for 5 months which is getting intense. Sorted most of my Port Folio out, just gotta improve a couple of images. Also packing away my room, which I haven't done for about 10 years which is scary. Also found out I'm going to be going to LA, staying at Venice Beach for a week before I got to England, cause my mum has to do some work at Universal studios.
So me and my bro get to go to the Universal Studios theme park for a couple of days, And pretty keen for this

And this

As well as everything else, it will be amazing, and hopefully document or at least keep this thing up to date with whats going on during my whole trip.

Also last week went to both Hardcore '09's but was able to shoot the 18+ Manning Bar show which was really great, especially too be able to shoot Cruel Hand;

-Shinto Katana

-White Male Dumbinance

-Miles Away

-Cruel Hand

Also my friends from xStrength Through Purityx who I had done promos for awhile back, had been sending this around and thought it looked sick:

I don't know how many more opportunities I'll have too update this before I leave, but be sure to keep checking through out the rest of the year for updates on my trip.
Thanks
Daniel

D and D

2009-07-06T05:17:00.000-07:00

Not a whole lotta new, news, Just been trying to sort everything out still, taking photos and trying to choose what I'm going to use for my Folio. Checking out shows that ill be seeing in England and there are a couple of good ones, some shows of Dead Swans (really good English hardcore), A Misery Signals and Architects show which I'm heaps siked on and some The Ghost Inside, Architects, Despised Icon & Winds Of Plague (METAL). Plus no doubt some locals if i can find em.
But should be good.
Also last week shot the Drunk And Disorderly Show at Hype on Thurs, felt good being at a show again, it'd been too long, although it wasn't the best people and bands, still had fun, saw people I haven't in ages and may not again due to my English trip/Brissy Move, and also got to see Break Even which was SO GOOD. Here are some pix;

-Louie Knuxx

-Break Even

Through out their set there were a couple of metal heads, head banging and randomly one of them grabbed the break even singers hang....

-Deez Nuts

-My Friend top tired crowd surfing during Deez Nuts, but the kids these days think shows are all about moshing and looking good;

- It got too hectic after awhile had to bail to the back;

only got a few of The Amity Affliction cause i had to catch a bus;

-Amity Affliction

Saw an amazing Spanish movie with my friend the other day, called 'El Organto'
(the Orphanage) , A really good thriller/horror, and very cleaver, many twists;
Also my friend Caitlin came over and she'd just gotten a new hair cut ala, This Is England, and wanted some Portrait Prac;

Micheal Jackson

2009-06-30T05:05:00.000-07:00

Micheal Jackson's death has caused mixed responses between my friends, some loved him so much, have his albums and cried when hearing the news, some didn't give a fuck and made jokes about his death. But many like me respected him as an artist, who made a huge impact on many people and paved the way for many new music styles and genres (as anyone dose who has the worlds most successful album) but through out his career made many actions which could be seen as mistakes, But in the end he should be remembered for his achievements not his mistakes.

Anyway in other news, a lot has been going on in my life, I've been trying to sort out a whole lotta things but finally i think it's finally cleared up a bit. was watching This Is England last week and it got me keen for the fact that I'm going to England for 5 months at the end of Aug this year, with my mum and brother as my family is all moving there by the end of the year. But I'm only there for 5 months as when I get back I'm starting a 4 year course in Brisbane at the Sunshine Coast University/Tafe doing a duel course, Diploma of photomedia and bachelor of arts, major in Graphic design. So I'm Really keen for that, but it's starting to hit me that I don't have much time to spend with all my good friends till I'm gone.
This along with trying to get my second flash fixed, sorting out my Folio for uni and saving as much money as i can for my England trip hasn't left me with much time for photography.

But I did shoot my friends first show for Facebreaker a couple of weeks ago,
-Felix

also check out a different band who was on the bill called Yeah Bears, Very Testicles/Blood Brothers.

and also a few publications came out which i was keen to see how they turned out.
The first I was most keen for was the article about the Blue Mountains music scene published in Brag which featured a paragraph about me, which I really happy with.

and the second was a publication in the English webzine, Vanity, which was the live pics from the Bury Your Dead Show in Aug.

also been listening to heaps of music that im really loving, check some of this stuff out if u get the chance:

-Polar Bear Club: Sometimes Things Just Disappear

-Beakeven: The Bright Side

-Ice Cube: Greatest Hits-Gallows: Grey Britain
-Fucked Up: The Chemistry Of Common Life

- Acacia Strain: The Dead Walk

-N.W.A: Greatest Hits

Disconnect

2009-06-22T09:40:00.000-07:00

lately I have been sorting out a whole lot of things in my life both physically and emotionally, this combined with work and friends has taken up a large amount of my time and hasn't left a lot of time for other things. And in a way it's almost as if I have disconnected from the hardcore/metal scene to an extent. I don't go to shows nearly as much as I use to, I once would go at least 2 times a weekend now it's once every now and then, I don't see my friends from the 'scene' as much as I use to, which has allowed me to see my friends from school a lot more, well that and me and my girlfriend breaking up.
But with all this I have still been able to do a lot of shooting, as my weeks are usually free due to a majority of my shifts being over the weekend. So I have been shooting a few promos throughout the week.

Last Sunday I shot We Stand Alone's promos once again, due to a few reasons, new drummer, new music coming out, etc. And I was more than happy to do them as I wasn't so happy with the last shoot. I was hoping to have my flash fixed by this shoot so i'd have two, but no such luck.
We went out on location to....Blacktown, which wasn't the most pleasant of locations, or safest, but we were able to find some good spots and get some good shots:
Tried doing some differently cropped single shots from the usual;

Also had a go at a, guess you call it, story shot? But wasn't happy with how it came out, really needed that second flash and a bit more planning;

Later that week my friend Jonny Blackwell, another local photographer who dose some sick stuff asked me to take some stuff for one of his bands Creations, a really sick sounding band composed of members from America and Aus. Very Impending Doom, Acacia Strain sounding, so if your into your heavy stuff, deff check em out, they are deff going somewhere.
Anyway as Jonny was a photographer it meant i was able to borrow equipment, namely a second flash which made a real difference and i was really happy with how they came out:
-The Man Himself (Jonny Blackwell)

Got some other good shots, but had a deadline of last night to get the best of the individuals and group shots done for use on the myspace layout.
Also even later In the week shot my Good friend Felix's band, Facebreaker. Pretty much the only Blue Mountains Hardcore Band getting around, check em out it was also his first show. Pics will be done soon.
Also checked out the page for next years 'Sydney Tattoo and Body Art Expo' which I shot for last year and saw the gallery with my pix in for last year. Which was good to see.
And Got some mail on yesterday with my prints which were displayed in Bare Your Teeth 2009 exhibition in Melb. Non were sold there, but if you want to buy one of the prints or a print of any of my photos just contact me through my myspace.

Also if you have the time check out my younger brothersnew film 'Blood Orange', he stepped it up with new editing programs, new camera and new actors (although the actors let him down a lil). Anyway defiantly check it out here.

-My Brother

Have Heart

2009-06-05T03:06:00.000-07:00

Last Friday went and saw Have Heart at one of their last shows in Aus ever, was an amazing show and as i found out only a small part of the entire farewell tour, which is HUGE and no doubt an amazing final tour for them.

Anyway for the last song of Carpathian my flashes bulb blew (which costs $200 to fix), so it meant that I had no flash for Have Hearts set. So with a camera which isn't the best at low light, I still was able to get some shots i was happy with.

- Your Ghosts A Gift

-Persist

-Ollie forgot the words for 'Promises Kept' Cover....hahaha sorry Ollie

-Carpathian
-Just when my flash's bulb blew

-Have Heart

Luckily earlier in the week I was able to squeeze in some promos for locals 'If You Seek Amy'
travelled the furthest Ive ever had to, but the promos turned out pretty good, and it was some more good practice on CS3. But I heard that the singer has recently left the band, which means these promos are already useless.ahh well

Also while down there the guitarist's Dad had made a homemade PS3 Racing booth, from a coffin...had to get a shot.

Sunday arvo had nothing to do, so went and shot Amity Affliction and Elora Danan, I didn't really wanna go on account of being sick and not a huge fan of Amity. I was so happy I did cause I found out that Elora Danan are breaking up and it was their last show in Syd ever. They are a band I've liked ever since I first saw em, a really good rock band, and it sucks so many good bands are breaking up. But heaps happy too see em one last time. The show was real short, with Amity and Elora playing only 4 songs each to catch a plane.

-Elora Danan

-Amity Affliction

VENT

2009-05-30T06:38:00.000-07:00

The last few weeks have been hell for me, some much has been happening, more bad then good, and its really getting to me. Firstly many personal issues brought me down and have been taking a huge toll on my morals, then on top of that I owe $700, $200 to the government for a fuckin train fine, and $200 to my dad for phone bills, and $300 for a new flash. I'm only gettin about 2 shifts a week from work which means its impossible to live a life which doesn't only involve sitting at home, and be able to pay back all of my debts. But then on top of that, went to see Have Heart for their last Aus show ever. And my flash broke just before their set, not by being physically damaged, but because of some malfunction. And further more It seems I have been ripped off with my order, the flash may have been second hand, even though I bought it from an ebay 'company', as I do not have a warranty slip. So now I'm fucked.
Still was able to pull through some alright pix from have heart, but don't expect good quality as my cam is shit in low light.
But in the end all though it seems a whole lotta things are goin shit for me and makes me wanna give up on photography and not try, I think about the fact that there are people SO SO SO SO much worse off then me. So I'm just goin to keep saving and pay my dues, buy a new flash and just see what happens.

In other news, found some muck around and other shots from the xSTPx shoot from awhile back;

-Chris

-'Man Love'

Also keen to here how Bare Your Teeth went, the exhibition open on Friday, so hopefully at least that went well. Also did some promos earlier in the week and will be putting pix from the Have Heart show soon.

A Long Week

2009-05-24T01:49:00.000-07:00

Again it has been awhile since I've posted anything, But it's been a busy week, I have a lot to write about and so alot for you guys to hopefully read.. Over Last Weekend I went up to Brisbane to get my tattoo finished by Rachi Brains at All Star Tattoos. I was really happy with how it turned out;
-Still Fresh

Saw my friend Josh on the plane going to get his tattoo finished by Rachi aswell, so he was able to show me where the private All Stars Parlour was and i took a few pix of the joint.

-pleasant environment...

But while up there I decided to make a lil 'holiday' of it, so the first night did promos for xStrength Through Purityx, Funnest dudes, make sure you check em out, they'll be touring with xLiferuinerx From US around Aug. Anyway had a really great time and got some good results. Also was a good chance to test out my newly cracked photoshop CS3.

-The Crew

Also took some tourist snaps;
-Brizvegas
-Casino right in the city centre

And went to the Modern Art Museum where these was a sick show called 'The China Project', so interesting,

check out more pix here

As soon as I got off the plane I took advantage of the rare situation of being in Sydney at a late time with money to spare and went to Brisbane to buy the camera and lense I have been planning to buy for awhile from Craig Nye, A Nikon F70 film SLR, with a 50mm AF lense.
Haven't had a chance to try it out, but i have played around with the lense on my digital, good shit.

Also after getting back from Brisbane had to sort out my shit for the Bare Your Teeth Exhibition comin up at the end of the month. Originally was goin to have 3 prints but ran outta money and time, so stuck with 2 pix; the oneof Sam From Ghost town, and the pic from Internal Affairs Last show in Syd. Some of my favourite pix from this year so far.

There are some good artists playing and displaying at the two day exhibition so make sure if your in Melbourne around the 29th-30th of this month (MAY) go check it out.

Escape

2009-05-15T06:53:00.000-07:00

Again it's been awhile since I've shot anything, been busy with work and shit, had a really tough week, so looking forward to going away to Brisbane for my first time this weekend to get my tatt finished;

...By Rachi Brains. Also while down there shooting xStrength Through Purityx Promos and shooting some live photos of provoke which will sick, and of course taking photos of Bris it self.
So will be a really good escape.

Also this week 'Nath' from the band Cutloose who I did promos for awhile ago, showed me this;
which I pretty stoked on, as it is my first offical newspaper publication (on newspaper website and in physical newspaper)

And Again another American band has become been caught by Australia's 'Bermuda triangle curse' , just like Verse when they were here for Boys of Summer earlier this year, Have Heart have announced thier break up and are playing some of thier last few shows her in Aus, so make sure u come check em out;

Grey Days

2009-05-10T01:54:00.000-07:00

Again it has been awhile of not shooting music of any type recently, parties, working and girlfriend have taken up most of my time, which is good. But I have been doing some random bits of photography here and there. Such as head shots for my good friend Caius, who is applying for acting in TV and movies;

and also did a few shots of some merch Im selling which was a bit a lighting practice at the same time.

-Check out the stuff im selling click 'here' and then go to the album 'For Sale'

Also keen to be sending some prints of my photos to Melbourne for the up and coming 'Bare Your Teeth' exhibition featuring some of Aus's best artist in the punk, hardcore, metal scene.
Let's just hope I can produce them within the next 2 weeks...

(Photo by Chris Ensell)

Been listening to some much of the New Gallows album called 'Grey Britain' , Loving it SO much. Can't wait till they make it down this way, if they do.

And finally I finally figured how to torrent programs and I was able to hack a version of Photoshop, not the newest one, but still alot better then any other program I have right now which is always good. But it also meant I was finally able to use the water mark that Mez made for me awhile ago. (ill make it a lil smaller in future)

Trash Talk

2009-05-03T20:41:00.000-07:00

Went to Trash Talk last Thurs. Was a really good show, saw lot of friends I hadn't seen in ages and good catching up with them. The show it's self was crazy, specially for trash talk. Within the first song some one was passed out on the floor and had to be carried away, The singer flipping on top of me throwing milk crates into the crowd and smashing the mic to his head till it bled. And then after the show, some crazed fan went up to each member of the band and ask if they would punch him in the face, they all declined. An all round crazy show.

-Homewrecker

- Ill Brigade

- White Male Dumbinance
-A.V.O

-Extortion

-Trash Talk
(bleeding head from mic smashes to the head)

Dropsaw coming up this weekend, so hopefully all goes to plan and I can get out to that...
also check my twitter, don't use it heaps, but now and then.

Break

2009-04-25T23:32:00.000-07:00

It's been a few weeks since I've shot any kind of live music, which feels kinda weird. I guess it's a kind of un-intentional break, which has allowed for me to focus on other things, namely girlfriend, friends and work. But I also have had the opportunity to shoot other stuff I don't usually shoot which was good for me and will hopefully add some stuff for my portfolio for uni.

Was down in Kiama for my nan's birthday, and found a 45 year old bike in thier garadge, and took it for a ride down to the old quarry where some the Power Rangers movie was filmed.

Also was able to score a free ticket to the Easter Show with my friend Lachlan. Was a good time, tried to get in some 'Typical' showground shots.

*a cake

* Dagwood Dogs
And later that week went to the Aquarium with my girlfriend, and took some more snaps...

*Doogey

Then Chilled at Darling Harbour for the evening...

Trash Town

2009-04-15T04:33:00.000-07:00

Trash talk (not by me)

Saw Ghost town a couple of weeks ago. really good, chill show. Heaps of fun. Anyway way here are some of the pix from that show. Also haven't been too a show in awhile. and will still be awhile longer, as im workin all weekend. But looking forward to Trash talk, end of this month.
here are some of my favs from the Ghost Town, Earthlings Show:

-Snake Face
-Mentally Unstable
-Earthlings

-Ghost Town

Also keen to get into this book I just bought called 'World War Z' written by Zombie 'cult icon' Max Brooks, ive heard alot of good stuff from heaps of different people about this book. So should be good to pass the time on those long train trips im constantly taking.

Nazi Zombies

2009-04-10T08:16:00.000-07:00

Most of my time these days are taken up by there main things, my girlfriend, photography & this:

Nazi Zombies, A bonus level in Call Of Duty: World At War, Where you and your friend (my brother in my case) are attacked by endless whoards of Zombies in Nazi uniform. It is so fun and so addictive.
Also Shot Antagonist A.D from NZ and Ghost Town on the weekend. Here are a few of my fav shots from the show, the Ghost Town shots will be up soon.

-Hand Of Mercy

-Shinto Katana
-Antagonist A.D

Also Shot some more promos for my good friends Flatline Drama, who recently became endorsed by Affends Clothing company. Heaps happy for them and was pretty happy how they came out for a quick little shoot.

(Right Click The Images & click 'view image' to see the image in full as it gets cut off)

Bury Your...

2009-04-05T08:09:00.000-07:00

Through out the last couple of weeks ive taken alot of photos. It's gonna take awhile to process them. Still haven't recived the Wish For Wings edited promos. So I might jus have to give up and edit them myself.
In the mean time the cut loose promos got back to me, and i was heaps happy with them.
(BLOG CUTS IMAGES OFF, RIGHT CLICK IMAGE AND CLICK VIEW IMAGE TOO SEE FULL SIZE IMAGE)

shot Bury your dead last weekend for stomp touring and Shinto Katana, and got some good pix despite the 3 song rule.

Shinto Katana

Confessions

Bury Your Dead

Also this weekend went to too many shows and took too many pix. Some bands include, chelsea smile, shinto, hand of mercy, your ghosts a gift, antagonist, ghost town, earthlings, and more...

Blunt

2009-03-31T03:58:00.000-07:00

Again been busy with all sorts of stuff so has been awhile since I've updated this. Finally got the most of the promos of the Band Cut Loose done and edited by my good friend and up and coming designer Mez. Really Happy With how they turned out. Still waiting on Oliver X Bones for the edited Wish for Wings Pix. But here is another sneak preview of the promos ill hopefully soon be getting.
(Image Gets Cut off, check flickr or click here)
Also finally the new March, issue of Blunt magazine has come out with my friends Flatline Drama in it, who are also featured on the free CD. Heaps happy for them and good to see my pic in the magazine. Be sure to pic up a copy and also check em out, they have just recently Been endorsed by Affends Clothing Label, so I have to go up to do some Affends promos for them too, which will be fun.
Just learnt what all this twitter business was, so I made one up, check it out and add me or whatever. Shot Cry Murder with their new singer, and Anime Fire with their new EP a couple of weeks back and got the pix finally sorted. Here are some of my favs:

Resist The Thought
Hand Of Mercy

Anime Fire
Popeye...

Cry Murder
Also shot the US mosh lords, Bury Your Dead on the weekend, not a huge fan of their music, but they put on a good show, long, but good. Pix should be up next blog.
keep a look out on my flickr.

A Taste...

2009-03-23T06:51:00.000-07:00

Been pretty busy lately, sorting out pictures, seeing friends, working and taking photos. Still waiting on the Wish for Wings Promos which are being edited by their own OliverXbones, who also was a mentor too me as he is a very talented photographer himself. But he did send me One of the portraits I did of Him the same day.

-OliverXBones

Also did some promo's for a band from Sutherland who are yet to make a move on the hardcore scene or even myspace, called Cut Loose. But they have some sick stuff and I was really happy how the promos turned out. Also part of the shoot we did in an old, burnt out shed and found heaps of amazing Japanese Tattoo Flashes and other stuff, like this:

My Best friend who moved out to Melb is back this week, so it'll be really good to see him this week and my girlfriend, and then shooting Bury Your Dead For STOMP touring this sat at the manning bar, so make your way out there.

Finally

2009-03-19T18:34:00.000-07:00

I finally feel a load has been lifted from my chest. I have finally finished sorting out, editing, sending and putting up all the photos from the Sydney Tattoo & Body Art Expo 2009 (check em out here).
I had a great time there, and was a really awesome and new experience for me, and i hope i get similar experiences in the future.
But now I still have a whole lot more photos to sort out, edit, send and put up, including Wish for Wings Promos, which turned out pretty good, Break Even live pix, Anime fire live pix and cry murder live pix. Also found some pix from one of the first shows i took photos at, Terror and Her nightmare about 3 years ago. So i wanna chuck a couple of them up that i never did anything with.
So yeah still got a bit to go.
Also my beloved friend Edgil who designs for bands such as, A Day To Remember, My Child My Bride, Silverstien, Hawthorne Heights, Between the Buried & Me, Etc. made me a lil present which i was so happy with.
Also recently got an email from an English Webzine called Vanity, and it seems i was published in their first issue for the photos from the Internal Affairs show a couple of months back. Except for some reason it had 50 lions headlining? hahah
check it out:
- A lil recognition is always good

Download the full mag here

Too Long

2009-03-12T06:53:00.000-07:00

It's been too long since I've posted on here. I've just been swamped which the Tattoo expo, getting my first Tattoo and Crime scene over the weekend, Editing and sorting all the pics from the expo and going too break even and tomorrow maybe shooting promos for Wish For Wings, I don't have time to post a proper post.
But here are some photos that i have gotten ready from the last week.

Mine, By Rachi Brains (not finished)

Tattoo Of The Expo

My Favourite Of The Expo

Crime Scene Supporting Parkway Drive, Missed out on PWD but

The Crowd Was fuckin HUGE!

Wings

2009-03-03T04:56:00.000-08:00

I was heaps happy recently to find out my good friends, from the mnts, who had just started up a new hardcore band called Facebreaker, got the local support for Parkway Drive's Penrith show for their first show. It's this Friday with Crime Scene & Dropsaw, should be good.

Also Friday is the first day of the first annuel Sydney Tattoo & Body Art Expo, which is looking too go off with some of the best international and local tattoo artists and piercers, as well as many stalls, competitions, live bands & performances.
I'm also getting my first tatt by Rachi Brains that day, which I've had too wait 8 months for.
So deff make your way down to the expo at Homebush, Sydney Showground this Fri, Sat and Sun.

Also caught Wish for Wings and Bermuda at Blacktown Masonic on sat. Shooting Wish for Wings again, made me feel nostalgic as it had been awhile since id last seen em. So I decided to revisit my past in photography and do some slow shutter speed photography again, here are some of the pix from the show:

Bermuda

Wish For Wings

Even Worse

2009-02-26T19:29:00.000-08:00

My friend Rory is starting a new zine called 'Even Worse Zine' which has a killer first issue coming out in the next few month which features:

* Chris Colohan of Cursed and Left For Dead chattting about whats up these days and motorcycles

* Syracuse heavyweights Earth Crisis spilling the beans on their reformation.

* Buddha of long standing heroes Blood for Blood talking about life post B4B

* The band thats puts the strong in STRONG ISLAND, This Is Hell, talking about their new recording Misfortunes

* Californian grind band GRAF ORLOCK talking about touring Australia and their favourite movies.

* Dan Pilks from No Love Lost and Dogfight Records talking about touring, iPhones and being an independent label.

* Sydneys new all-star band Had It talking about being old and supporting Ceremony.

Also inculdes will be reviews, recipes, photography, film, pentagram bill, anti-religious propganda, bmx, crimes and much much more..

anyway she asked if I wanted to add a lil article about my experience and story as a young blood photographer in the hardcore scene. So keep your eye out for it. Should be able to get it from Resist Records and many other outlets all over Aus and all over the World when it releases.
Also finally got my hands on a copy of a templete of one of Shinto Katana's Newest shirts featuring my picture on the back, Check it:

Cancer

2009-02-25T04:52:00.000-08:00

Just Found Out Cancer Bats are coming back to Aus this year, missed them the first time as I was underage. Unfortunately they are supporting Bring Me the Horizon which will undoubtedly make it near impossible to shoot unless I can find some way to get a press pass.
But either way it'll be a really good, and much fun will b had.

Also found some strange things while looking through the stats of my Flickr(http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmhc_photography/). I was looking at the images with the most views and this image had triple the amount of views over any below it.

This Pic of local band Armed With Courage, was the most viewed image on my Flickr, had triple the amount of views than:

This Promo I took of For The Fallen Dreams (US) while I was on tour with them December last year.

Nuts

2009-02-24T02:21:00.000-08:00

Went to Deez Nuts on the weekend, They had Louie Knuxx supporting, which was sick. Good to experience something new at a hardcore show. Been gettin into good hip hop latley so it was a good. Also had a good lil chat too JJ and Todd.
Other that just been taking a kinda break from photography, getting my life sorted, getting settled into my job and saving for new equipment and my tatt next fri. Also thank you Mez (http://mezxxx.blogspot.com/)For designing the top banner you can see at the top of the blog. Next friday (6th Of March) Ill be shooting Sydney's first Annuel Tattoo & Body Art Expo, check it out, it's over 3 day and has some amazing artist from all over the world.
Also here are some pix from The Deez Nuts & Louie Knuxx

Mark My Words

Armed With Courage

Louie Knuxx

Deez Nuts

Phoenix

2009-02-17T22:50:00.000-08:00

The other night my friends bf who I know vaugley messaged me if I wanted to take some pics of him and his friend for a lil cash. He ended up coming down to my part of town, so it was easy as, I really needed the cash and I enjoied my self. Got some good portrait and promotional practice.
Check em out:

Also seeing Louie Knuxx On sat, should be good, hes got some good stuff check it out (http://www.myspace.com/louieknuxx)
(not mine)

Also check this out, Saw it on David Letterman the other time, Joaquin Phoenix has changed quite a bit, and is now starting a Hip Hop Career, check it out.
he's an older pic of him for reference:

weird...

Looking Forward

2009-02-15T18:39:00.000-08:00

It has been awhile since ive shot anything. Jus been busy with trainning for my new job as a bartender, and also Valentines day and my very good friend who had moved to melbourne was back to visit over the weekend. So It was a good weekend. This week I start work, which will be good to finally have some cash!
On the weekend going to Deez Nuts and Louie Knuxx, keen to see Knuxx and thankfully JJ is putting me on the door, which is so good as I have no money. Also earlier in the week I emailed Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster (http://www.mayleneandthesonsofdisaster.us/) as last time they were here they were meant to give me a door spot and press pass but forgot. Unfourturnatley a press pass was not possible so close to the event, but they were able to give me a free ticket. Which was really awsome. Looking forward to going to a show with really good bands and really enjoing myself.'
some good bands...
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make your way to this if you get the chance

Face It

2009-02-12T05:17:00.000-08:00

My brother is a Amature movie maker of sorts. He's been making them since he was 12, I usta play staring roles, film them and all that jazz but in the last few years I have ceased to have any contribution. Not on purpose, just cause I couldn't be bothered. When he said he was making a new movie (the 2nd part to his previous movie 'The Face' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rdvr_Jp6Eo&feature=channel_page) I decided I wanted to be apart of this one for ol' time sake.
Although I only played a minor part It turned out good. The movie will be out later this year. But for now check out the teaser for it(he specialises in blood and gore, so be warned):

Check out more of his stuff at http://www.youtube.com/user/oscarknott69

RIP

2009-02-11T05:24:00.000-08:00

Went to a sweet show on sunday. An all covers show with Time Will Tell, Ten Paces, Worlds Apart, Had It & Ill Brigade. Was a fun show, pretty much just the bands playing covers of the bands that they grew up with and admire and were influenced by. Also Ill filled us in on the history of each band behinde the song they covered. Was a good Show.
Also R.I.P to Verse, Glad to see em before they broke up last week.

Here are some pix from the covers show:

Time Will Tell

10 Paces

Had It

Ill Brigade

F.E.A.R

2009-02-09T16:16:00.000-08:00

Chilled with my gf on sunday around the city and oxford st and then on monday/tues hung out with my friends Lukeey and Lena as they were in the mnts. We went for a skate and i took some random photos here and there.
These are my fav pix as a result.

Walls near Oxford Street

There are these concrete remotes such as this on spotted all over sydney stuck to the ground. I found this one in a back alley near Oxford St.

Lukeeys tatt, if you closley to the left side of the wrist, you might be able to see a inverted cross.

Lena's Dog

Promotional

2009-02-08T18:49:00.000-08:00

I did some promos on sunday for a local band called We Stand Alone (http://profile.myspace.com/westandalonetheband). Had fun, wanted to try out some new things and actually go to location instead of being up prepared.
Also got paid which is also always good. Was a bit shit cause I lost one of my cheap arse romote triggers, but now I FIANLLY have a job at a local pub i can afford to buy better and bigger.
Anyway here are a few of my favs out of the bunch:

(See more At http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmhc_photography/)

Photos, Photos, Photos

2009-02-05T16:45:00.000-08:00

Although this is a late post, it dosen't change the fact that my weekend was quite a hectic one, with many many photos taken. Hence why it has taken so long to post anything. Anyway Ill begin with my friday night. I went to A Shinto Katana show in Blacktown, it was Jack Napier's 2nd last show and with risk of missing their last I wanted to go. Because in a sense I grew up with Jack Napier as a band, Althought thier line up is nearly totally different from when I first saw them.
Also We Stand Alone were opening for the show and they had asked me to do their promos on sunday so I went to check em out too.
It was an all round alright right show. Here are my Fav Pix
The rest of the pix from the rest of the weekend will be posted in seperate posts.
We Stand Alone

Dead Kings

Jack Napier

The Bride

Shinto Katana

Australia Day

2009-01-27T06:01:00.000-08:00

Australia Day isn't usually a thing a celebrate, not because im un-patriotic or anything, but I just didn't realise it was something to celebrate. So for my 'celebration' me and my girlfriend Deanne deceided to go camping as the weather had been nice and hot and dry the last week. So after arriving at the campsite to the sound of JJJ's hottest 100 we set everything up and went for a swim. After returning to the campsite we couldn't help but notice nearly everyone had left.
And then soon enough we were the only ones left in the campsite.
Not bothering to wonder why we continued to chill and cook marshmellows and noodels. But it didn't take much longer to realise why, it began to rain. after retreating to our tent it continued to rain the whole night. The next day waking to a flooded tent.
Wasn't the best of Australia/Post Australia Days but was stilll it totality a good time.
Also on the weekend went for a really chilled skate with my friend Tom, it was good times and found some cool places. Didn't take much snaps but was good.
This weekends shaping up to be an alright one, seeing Shinto Katanan who I haven't seen in ages and I also hear it's Jack Napier's last show, so check it out at Blacktown this friday. And my good friend from Flatline Drama, AJ is having a Birthday partywhich should b sick times ahead.

Here are a few Camp Shots:

And A couple Of Shots from my City Skate, Non of actual skating but this dude was amazing. He was a 'Professional' Busker. Travelling the world busking, all income from Busking. What A life.

And this is just some strange thing I found amusing. Dairy Products Gone Bad???

A Hot Summer

2009-01-22T21:04:00.000-08:00

This is gettin fuckin hotter every day, and i live in the mountains, so i feel bad for those city folk. Anyway its currently day 20 something of job search and i have had no luck despite handing resumes everywhere and appling to 5 different places on line. So i went to centre link to find help and now i have piles of forms to fill out.
ahh well
Also went to Boys of Summer on Monday night which was fuckin awsome. was really keen to see Comeback kid and Verse which was good. Carpathian also put on a good show for thier first song before Lloyd the gtarist Popped out his leg, laying on the ground at the end of the opening song screaming at the top of his voice at the sky. The Ambo was called and after about a half hour wait they arrived and he was taken away by which time i had to go. So not many photos of Carpthian this time.

Also im slowing thinking of changing to a different blog site as it is....better check it out http://bmhcphotography.blogspot.com/ ill be posting on both for a while.

Anyway here are some pix from the show

Mary Jane Kelly

Against

Verse

Comeback Kid

Carpathian

Record

2009-01-22T21:00:00.000-08:00

Recently decided one saturday that i hadn't seen my good friends from Flatline Drama (http://www.myspace.com/flatlinedrama) in a long fuckin time, So i called AJ from the band and asked wat he was doin the next day. And it happened that they were recording a new song soon to be in Blunt Magazine. So i went down to Electric Sun Studios with the rest of the dudes for a day of recording.
Had heaps of fun, took some casual recording snaps, got some practice for the tattoo expo im shooting in march and did some promos for thier bit in Blunt Magazine. Also helped with some gang vocals for the track and took some Hartly(http://www.hartleyphoto.net/), 'Stay True' Album-type shots and watched the Comeback Kid video which got my siked for seeing them at the Boyz Of Summer Show that was on monday night.
Any way here are some of my favs from recording

And here are the tatt shot practice

And Promos, I used an attachment Fisheye on some of em which was shit because it distorts the edges.

Hopless

2009-01-22T20:55:00.002-08:00

I am starting to loose hope in everything and anything. As depressive as it sounds my year is kicking off too a slower start than expected. I still haven't found a job despite my frantic and repedetive attempts to find one and my money is running down fast. It looks as though im going to have to resort to a take away store job, atleast In the mean time, which ive been trying to stay away from. Also no new and or exciting oppurtunities are presenting them sleves, im missing my best friend who has recently moved to melbourne and many other things.
But to take my mind off things me and my family went to see the Star Wars Exhibition in the Powerhouse Sydney. It was a great time and really interesting as i usta and still am kinda the biggest Star Wars Nerd.
I took some pictures but ill post em in my next post...
enough whining, should be shooting Boyz of Summer on Monday with Carpathian,Against,Verse(US) and Comeback Kid(US)!! which im looking forward to. I really love Comeback Kid, missed em the first time out. The only thing im really hopeing for is that Against reply intime to my email i send em to tomorrow and for fill thier promise of puttin me on the door and giving me a door spot.
anyway i recently went to Internal Affairs Last Aus show with 50 lions, ghost town, Iron Mind & Stepping Stone. It was a really fun show, down to earth good ppl, everyone goin nuts and sweating like a mother fucker.

Stepping Stone

Iron Mind

Ghost Town

50 Lions

Internal Affairs

Pete Playin Bass

Thundadome

2009-01-22T20:55:00.001-08:00

Recently I shot my first Hip-Hop show in Katoomba. It featured Dialectrix, Thundamentals (both blue mountains groups on Obese Records) and Pegz (the owner of Obese records from Melb). It was really fun, as it was also celebrating my makes birthday at the same time.
A totally different experience from what im use to, Also found it totally alot harder to shoot as there isnt as much varying movement and there is alot more drinking in the crowd. But still fun all the same.
Here are a few of my fav shots from the night.

Dialectrix

Thundamentals

Pegz

"Straight From The Thundadome"

Late Christmas

2009-01-22T20:31:00.001-08:00

(Since slowly changing blogs I am reissuing past posts on this blog)
I was meant to draw a picture for my mum of my dad. But i never go around to doing it. So jus before she left for 6 month to England i took a few pix of my Dad so she could get an idea of what to expect, and to make sure she liked it.
It Was also a good chance to practice with strobist lighting. They turned out alright. But i want another go as the lighting was not even.

I liked this pic but was pissed to see the reflection in the back

Mum Liked this best, not my fav, but its her present.

Also went for a skate for the first time in awhile to the city with my friend Tom. Good dude.

Me Taken by tom, Cave man

Tom

Darling Harbour banks...Fun place to Skate, but not when ur bearings pop and ur wheel falls off. Spent and hour searching for a skate store around Syd. DAMN PSC CLOSING!!

Tom jus rollin along

LUNCH STOP

Tom's Wonton Soup

Whats left of my 3 choice meal...

Cathedral Skate

Also Saw an Amazing Band call Halal,How are you? good times. Really fun and somethin different.