Her Rose Folds

Images I took of Melissa McClelland at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg. My favorite shots from the show are these lovely details of her gorgeous vintage dress. This typical live performance shoot was unexpectedly transformed into a fashion shoot of sorts thanks to her wonderful rose  folds.

Posted by Ailsa Dyson

Every once in a while...

We shoot and we shoot and we shoot and we shoot, and every once in a while the mother of all shots happens for us. I photograph live music more than anything else these days and I captured one of these shots the other night while shooting Toronto duo, USS [Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker]. The image is of Jason Parsons [aka Human Kebab] turntablist extraordinaire. USS played to the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg on March 23, and have won the honour of being my favorite new band. Here is the link to their myspace so you can listen for yourself!
http://www.myspace.com/ubiquitoussynergyseeker
Posted by f/action member, Ailsa Dyson

Her rose folds

I am featuring images I took of Melissa McClelland at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg seen on guttersnipeconcerts.com. They will be one of many series' f/action will have on display at The West End Cultural Centre this month, starting Wednesday February 3rd at 7pm for Melodies on Mercredi--a monthly showcase of music and art featuring local creative talent; this month along side the photography of f/action, the music of Brett Nelson and Kipp Kocay will be featured. f/action is very pleased to have been asked to take part in the first ever performance/opening for the event this Wednesday, only $5.
We really hope to see you there!
http://www.wecc.ca/site09/performers/mom_feb3.html
Posted by Ailsa Dyson

Melodies on Mercredi!

We just wanted to officially let you know that f/action has another exciting art opening coming up next week! The West End Cultural Centre (http://www.wecc.ca/) in Winnipeg has asked f/action to help them launch a new program of monthly collaborations between local music and art!

As many of you know, we love music and we love collaborating with musicians, so... next Wednesday, we will be teaming up with local musicians Brett Nelson and Kipp Kocay for a great evening of music and art at the West End Cultural Centre! The program, called Melodies on Mercredi, involves bringing new artwork into the WECC on the first Wednesday of every month. The first Wednesdays will be the official art opening for each month, and the artwork will remain on display inside the WECC all month long for concert-goers to enjoy.

We are so pleased to be involved in the debut of this series! For those of you that missed the INTERVALS exhibition in December, some f/action members will be displaying their Intervals series again. And in the spirit of the venue, Ailsa and I will be showing many photographs taken of live acts right at the WECC! My photo of Ida of the Magnificent 7s (posted last week) will be among them.

We hope to see you out at this unique event - set to become a great WECC tradition!
Here are all the details:

Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Doors: 7:00 pm
Shows: 7:30 pm
Location: West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg
(If you don't know where that is... well, you should!)

www.wecc.ca/site09/performers/mom_feb3.html

Posted by f/action member, Dallas Ludwick

Top 10 Concert Photos of 2009!

Hi f/action followers, sorry we have been a bit slow on the posts lately... we've been planning two exciting upcoming exibitions! The first one is right around the corner - more info to follow soon!

One of my favourite things to with my camera is live performance shooting. I've been lucky enough to team up with http://www.guttersnipenews.com/ - a vancouver-based online entertainment news and reviews site - to check out and document many great local and visiting bands here in Winnipeg. Our local concert reviewer, Eugene Osudar, is the animated dancing machine many of you have no doubt seen in action out on the music scene. Eugene is known for his free-flowing, lyrical style reviews of live shows - any many muscians are beginning to crave a write-up for thier CDs and other publications. Check out Euguene at www.guttersnipenews.com/author/eugene-osudar !

Eugene teams up with several local Winnipeg photographers (since none of us can keep up with his crazy show-going schedule!), and we colour the review with images of the live act. A couple off weeks ago, guttersnipe announced thier top 10 concert photos for 2009... and I was very excited to see that a Winnipeg image made the cut! My image of Ida, of local Winnipeg band the Magnificent 7s, was listed among the top 10:

To see all Top 10 images, click on:
www.guttersnipenews.com/2010/01/10/best-concert-photos-2009/

An HAPPY (belated) NEW YEAR to everyone!

posted by f/action memeber, Dallas Ludwick