Production Spotlight: SoulFest

Not long after I joined Events United, I directed the video production of SoulFest, New England’s premier Christian music festival that has been drawing thousands of fans since the mid-90s.

Taking advantage of the long, narrow concert space of the Franklin County Fairgrounds, we designed a video experience that carried the energy of the show to the far reaches of the space, with two massive, thin screens on either side of the space.

SoulFest Video Wall Design

I masked off the viewfinders of my camera operators to a narrow, iPhone-sized shape in the middle, and then we cropped the image to create giant, 40-foot versions of the artists on either side of the stage.

Switchfoot closed out the second night of the festival, and we flew a drone above the show to capture the energy of the crowd.

Favorite Shots of 2024

…and then I took a whole year to post the next round of photos. This is becoming a good bit! It’s a pity I’m not doing it on purpose.

2024 was my last full year at First Houston, and so it’s my last round of some of my favorite events to shoot - Christmas, Easter, VBS, and all the many mission events they do. I loved being a part of all of this.

You can click on any photo to see it full size and uncropped, or click here to see the full gallery. But here’s a selection of some of the ones I liked best:

Favorite DSLR Photos of 2023

I was going to post my favorite photos from last year when I realized I had never gotten around to posting my favorites of 2023. I had the whole album finished and everything, just never got around to it.

These are my favorite photos I took with my actual DSLR camera in 2023. You can click on any of the photos below (in the correct square grid fashion that Instagram has sadly abandoned) to see the full-res photo. Or click here to look at the whole gallery.

My Favorite Shots of the Year: iPhone

There are things iPhone cameras do well and things they struggle with, but it’s always worth having a camera with you when suddenly great moments show up and you wish you could capture the magic.

As much of a time capsule as it is a photo gallery, here are my favorite shots of the year from my iPhone:

My Favorite Shots of the Year: Film

This one’s an easy list, since if you’ve scrolled through this blog at all, you know I only shot 4 rolls of film, and they were the first 4 rolls of film I’d ever shot.

I think film photography is never going to be a major hobby of mine, but I’d like to roll it out a couple of times a year and see how my skills develop.

Here they are, my favorite shots from my first time shooting on film: