Photography

Preview of Drew & Alicia's Wedding by Ron Olds

Here is a quick preview of a few pictures I captured at Drew & Alicia's wedding.  The wedding was on Saturday August 31'st.

I was one of three shooters. Once the full online album is published I will include a link in this post. This was my second wedding. 

Mumford & Sons concert by Ron Olds

This week I had the opportunity to shoot Mumford & Sons at Promowest Pavilion in Columbus Ohio.This was my first sold out show. You can definitely feel power of the 10,000 fans at your back while you try to concentrate on getting the best shots you can. The concert was original scheduled for the outdoor amphitheater but quickly sold out. Promowest rescheduled the event for their festival setting. This allowed them to double the number of tickets that they could sell. Overall the rarely used festival setting seemed to work out well. If they plan on using this layout in the future they should consider leveling the parking lot used for the main stage. The current parking lot has a concave surface leaving the fans in the middle of venue with a wonderful view of the 4 foot tall person infront of them. Promowest did provide two huge screens to help combat this issue. It seemed as though 6,000 of the fans were watching the stage and the other 4,000 were watching the large screens. 

This was my first time seeing Mumford & Sons live. I will be sure to see them when they tour with their new album BABEL that is scheduled for release on September 25, 2012. A few of my photos from this show were featured on Midwest Photo Exchange's blog

Germain Amphitheater by Ron Olds

Germain Amphitheater

Back in October I wondered out to the now deserted Germain Amphitheater to take some pictures. Here is some information about the venue. 

The Germain Amphitheater was originally named Polaris Amphitheater but was renamed after a sponsorship deal with Germain motor company. Billy Ray Cyrus was the first artist to open the 20,000 seat venue in 1994. The venue hosted Ozzfest, Lilith Fair, and other great artists. Toby Keith played the final show in September of 2007. Since then the venue has sat empty in ruins. As you can see from the photographs the venue has been stripped by vandals for any valuable metal, and littered with graffiti.

The original owners, Los Angeles based entertainment company Live Nation, was asking $17 Million for the property in 2007. In January of this year a Polaris based developer NP Limited purchased the property for a little more than $5 million. NP Limited has plans of demolishing what is left of the amphitheater and ultimately developing the land.