10/30/2026
Every so often, folks are given a chance to really give it their all and prove what they are capable of when pressed against the coals. Despite having serious camera issues (mostly a bad rainstorm turning my DLSR into a multiple thousand-dollar paperweight), I was invited by a good set of friends of mine over at the band Kasei! out of Nashville to be the registered band photographer for a show at The End over on Rock Block/Elliston Place.
Ngl, I was pretty nervous being that this was my first 'official' photo-pass as a professional photographer, especially given that our group and studio is independent and not organized under any specific titles or business organization... That being said, it went off without a hitch and was an absolute BLAST of a show. Kasei! knocked it out of the park for an absolutely brutal homerun (figuratively speaking of course 😁) and I couldn't have been more shocked and excited. They even played my favorite song by them so that checked one mark off of the bucket list!!!!
I hope you guys can enjoy the set I was able to put together, more to come for the other bands that played that night who also deserve their own posts along the way. I might add more Kasei! pictures if I feel happy with the results from a some of them. Regardless of everything I am deeply thankful for my friends over at Kasei! for giving me the opportunity to shine and push myself over that edge into the pit to get whatever good angles I could.
Bonus fact: This was the first ever concert set I have ever done completely in manual 👀. Usually, I will let automatic set some of my parameters just for the quickness of it, but I felt it wouldn't be raw enough or truly them without making sure I dialed every setting in myself. Hopefully it turned out better than the camera could have attempted...
Kasei! Concert, The End - Rock & Roll Bar Set;
Nashville, Tennessee;
2026 / 10 / 21 ~ 🗿