Bow Arts Dinner gallery

Bow Arts party at the dome gallery

Pajamarama at the dome gallery

Brews and Bands at the dome gallery

I just finished chronicling the work of Theater of the Seventh Sister Associate Artistic Director, Lydia Brubaker during her annual Shakespeare Camp at F&M. Every summer Lydia directs a group of young men and women (from ages 13-18) through an intensive theater workshop that produces one Shakespeare play. This year’s offering was The Taming of the Shrew.

One of the most interesting parts of the workshop, at least for me, was the gender distribution of the students and how that affected the play. The students, some dozen or more young women and three young men, because of the make to female ratio, all played cross-gender roles. Put simply, all the guys played women on stage and woman played the male roles. So not only were they learning and working with the process of acting but they had the double hurdle of playing against their own gender. In a time of life when we all formed our adult identities, these students were not only working it out in real life but on stage.

I can’t say how impressed I was with the group’s passion, involvement and their performances. It’s simply amazing to watch Lydia work with the campers and them work for her. The students (and Lydia) do everything from working the theater itself to costuming their roles. I saw the final dress rehearsal today and I thought they did an admirable job with the play. It was very entertaining.

Below you find a few samples from today’s dress rehearsal and you can view the other images I shot throughout the workshop at the links below.

final dress rehearsal gallery

first dress rehearsal

rehearsal

blocking

acting exercises

For now, let’s get caught up on the photography end of things.

I’m doing some design work for JSID part of which had me shooting images of their new office. Here is a photoshopped version of one shot of that building I did just for fun.

Lydia Brubaker from the Seventh Sister Theater Company is holding a summer acting camp and F&M and I’ll be stopping there to shoot the progress of the class. It’s wonderful to watch as I have some small and indirect connection with some of the theater games she’s employed in the course. Her students all seem very enthusiastic and have been quite nice. Here are a few shots from the first installment of that project.

And finally, F&M hired me to shoot portraits of one of their professors, geology and Earth Sciences Professor Carol De Wet. Being a Geologist she’s a rock star in my world (since i was kid I’ve had this obsession with geology). She was an utter delight to chat with and I’m really proud of the shots. I think F&M is happy as well which is the best possible result. Here are a couple of my faves from that session.

For now, enjoy a few images (click here and here to see my complete rehearsal shot galleries) from the rehearsals but do pick up some tickets for “City of Angel’s” running all this month and early August.

Cylo taken during Schwanger Bros annual Customer Appreciation Day.

View all the shots from this great annual event here.

June First Friday.

View all the June First Friday images here.

Fireworks over the houses on New Street after a Barnstormer’s game for a special project.

You can see the entire set here.

The fountain in Penn Square, just because.

The Convention Center at night.

The Convention Center during the big storm June 12th.

A shot from the Lancaster County Community Foundation annual meeting. I want to welcome the LCCF as my newest client.

You can see all the shots here.

One of a series of shots from the Amtrak station for an upcoming print project.

You can see all the Amtrak shots here.

Finally, I just finished these shots this weekend. Every year I shoot the homes in the Lancaster Parade of Homes that WeeBee Audio/Video has worked on. Here are two shots from the Parade.

You can both sets of the Parade images here and here.

So, starting from right after the Sertoma BBQ, here is quick wrap up of the last two weeks.

If you click on the link in the intro to each image, you can view the entire gallery from which that image came.

One shot from the 27th Annual Fiesta (a fantastic party by the way).

Ricky Calderon, owner of Club Rumbha was kind enough to invites me in to shoot some images for a project for the City. Club Rumbha is a great little club and if you want to do some Salsa, it’s the place. From what I understand, Ricky even offers to teach beginners some steps.

I just started a new project for JSID focused on one Northeastern Lancaster neighborhood. There’ll be a lot more in this set soon.

Velaska Jewelry is a new client and I’m working on a bunch of different things for owner, Kathryn Pearce. These are just some initial tests. We’re working on defining a style and then I’ll be shooting a good representation of her many designs.

I managed to wake up early enough to catch some shots at this year’s Red Rose Run.

Last Saturday’s 300 North Queen Street Block Party was fun. Here’s one of my favorite shots.

One of my favorite things about Lancaster is the Lancaster Police Mounted Patrol. I’ve been lucky to befriend two of the officers and they’re always good for a great shot when they are out on duty. I stopped by the paddock a few days ago to see what’s new and check on one of the horses, Zeke (below) who has literally come back from death’s door and is now back on duty with Officer Wayne McVey. We’re all really glad Zeke and Officer McVey are back to work.

Most recently, as part of that new JSID project I mentioned above I got to shoot inside Grace Lutheran Church. It’s a beautiful church. Here are just a few of the great images I managed grab in a mere half hour inside.

You can see all the Sertoma images, including photographs from last year’s BBQ by clicking here.

Here are some selections from the final set…

Few words here. The pictures tell the story just fine.

If you want to see the entire gallery from this set (over 170 images), click here.

The weather has changed the routine a bit from last year. If the weather had been more cooperative earlier Friday evening I would have had something to post. But, given the steady rain we had a lot of the tasks that normally take place then were bumped back. So, the first update of the night is this one. This one covers the period from about 11:00 p.m. Friday night through 3:00 a.m. Saturday morning.

Below are some samples from this set of images. If you want to see the entire set (about 110 shots) click here.

If you want to visit the main Sertoma Gallery to see all the shots from this year’s BBQ, click here.

I’ll be back in a few hours with more photographs.

The good news is that all the trucks are here with everything to go into the dinners. Everything is in place and mostly ready to go. Soon, the hard work begins.

Enjoy the below selections and if you want to see the entire afternoon Gallery, click here.

If you want to visit the main Sertoma Gallery, click here.

I’ll be back in a few hours with more photographs.