PATTERNS AND TONES

North Norfolk Railway - Vintage Transport Weekend No. 2 This year I spent the 4th of July weekend in the United Kingdom - which was a bit of an oxymora. No celebrations of independence were to be found but I did manage to attend a wonderful vintage transportation exposition going on just outside of Sherringham in North Norfolk. The local railway had sponsored the event and it had a very strong turnout. As I walked the grounds, patterns began to present themselves for me to photograph. I was eager to capture these Englishmen next to their pride and joy to see if the same expressions I saw in folks I photographed in the states would present itself. Of course the cultural differences presented themselves but as we all are around the globe, pride of ownership has a distinctive air.  The following series of images became not so much a look at man and his machine but more of a study on how we project our personal tastes and esthetics by surrounding ourselves with items th...

Eddie Cochran moved to Bell Gardens, CA in 1953, but little did he know that 60 years later, rock n' roll would still be alive and well in his adopted city in the form of the Black Mambas ! With Michael Prince on vocals, Dorian Chavez on guitar, Leroy Martinez on drums and Eric Martinez on bass, the Black Mambas  are a revved up rockin' good ride that keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way through their set. Their debut self titled CD and a 45 single " Baby, I'll Give It To You " came out in 2013 on  Wild Records ,  who describe them as a 4 piece rock & roll band playing first wave punk.  Rodney Bingenheimer has said "they have a Rolling Stones-meets-Iggy and The Stooges way about them. Very blusey side of the Stones vibe, with an edge of garage". And they were described by Chris Ziegler, editor of LA Record , as "staggering into 1976 with gutter-glam songs and dawn-of-punk velocity and attitude". I was introduced to the ban...