Zumba Class with Beto Perez at Crunch Gym

I was hired by Crunch Gym to photograph a couple Zumba Classes being taught by the Zumba originator Beto Perez. One was at the Washington Ave location and another at their Sunny Isles location. Beto really brought a lot of energy to the classes and made the attendees sweat. It was cool to see the other Zumba instructors interact with Beto and the class. Here are some of my favorite photos from the two classes.

LCD Soundsystem at Miami Filmore 10-6-2010

I was a fan of LCD Soundsystem's before the show, but I honestly wasn't that familiar with their music. I stayed for the whole set and I have been listening to LCD Soundsystem ever since. The progressive style of the band is perfect for a live audience. Yes, I might of got my hipster dance on. Just a little bit.

The lighting for the first three songs was great and the band was set up oh so close to the stage. The set up made for some good images of band members from the foreground to background. These images were delayed for the publication of the November Issue of SFL Music Magazine

The opener Sleigh Bells. Their lighting was horrendous

SFL Music Magazine November Issue

The November Issue of SFL Music Magazine has been posted. Check out my photos from Drake and the LCD Soundsystem shows.

Pursuit of an Essay

One of the things that has kept me busy over the last few weeks has been my Photojournalism class. The long term main project of the class is a photo essay on either a topic related to water or consumerism. I decided to kind of do a little bit of both when I chose my essay to be about the inefficiencies of consuming water through bottles. Of course there are some situations where bottled water is necessary, but the bottled water companies have capitalized. Their clever use of mountains and springs to advertise has influenced the population even though, in numerous cases, tests have shown tap water to be better then bottled water. In fact, one third of all bottled water is from the tap. The creation of the water bottles also has a negative effect. “Each year the making of all the bottled waters in the United States uses enough oil and energy to fuel a million cars.”(The Story of Bottled Water). Even more energy and oil is spent distributing the bottled water.

Check out this awesome video "The Story of Bottled Water" created by The Story of Stuff Project that kind of got me going on the subject

My thesis for my photo essay is that bottled water is not an efficient way to consume water and has a negative effect on the environment. From the creation to distribution, bottled water uses energy that could be saved by drinking tap water.

I don't want to post the essay till it is complete, but here is an image of a chain link fence that I took while at Mount Trashmore, the local landfill.

Lake Worth Halloween Street Scene

The slide show from my coverage of the Lake Worth Halloween Street Scene is up over at New Times. The bands that performed included Surfer Blood, B-Liminal, Jacob Jeffries Band, and Spam All-Stars.

 

As usual for Holloween there were some interesting characters, costume or not.