You’ve reached my abandoned blog! I’m keeping it alive as many of you appear to be visiting and checking out the photo archives, however, I won’t be updating things here for the time being. Due to time restraints, I’m limiting my online activity to Twitter (you can check out my feed by clicking here. There’s also my online portfolio, too, if you’d like to see more photos).

Thanks for the interest.

Rebecca

Britney Spears rolled into Vancouver’s Rogers Centre for Canada Day (smart planning on her part as those naughty weed smokers, who rudely stopped her last show in town, were wherever they were celebrating Cannabis Day). Us photographers were escorted to the far reaches of the stadium to shoot from the soundboard four songs in. Since we weren’t allowed to bring step-ladders or milk crates in for this show, we had to duck waving hands, cell phone cameras and that inevitable seven-foot tall fan standing right in our sight-lines (guess I’ll have to start wearing my “shooting stilettos” again). Sarah Rowland reviewed the spectacle for the Georgia Straight.

Here is some of my work from a recent photo shoot with the Boom Booms, a six-piece Latin-soul-funk-rock-reggae band from Vancouver, BC. These guys were so much fun (which had absolutely nothing to do with being shot in a fully-stocked basement bar from 1972). We shot some promo photographs at the rehearsal spot, then headed to the basement to shoot in the bar and on the dance floor where we staged the natural combination of a poker game, some breaking, and of course, an organ-hymn sing-a-long led by band vocalist/rhythm guitarist Aaron Nazrul. The band’s new album “Hot Rum” is out Saturday with a release party at the Electric Owl.

Rihanna rolled into Van last night to play the first of two sold-out shows at Rogers Centre. It was a soundboard shoot, from the floor, so big thanks to fellow photographer Michele Neilson for sharing her step ladder. John Lucas reviewed the spectacle for the Straight, read it here.

Bison b.c. is arguably one of the best metal bands out of Vancouver and I photographed the band in all of its hairy glory at the Rickshaw Theatre’s second anniversary party this past Saturday. Allan MacInnes reviewed the show, click here.

Was just told that my photograph of Vancouver-based poet Elizabeth Bachinsky, which was published on the cover of CV2 magazine, won the Best Consumer Magazine Cover 2010 in the Manitoba Magazine Publishers’ Association annual awards. Thanks to Ms. Bachinsky for being so game when it came to sitting on an alley dumpster!

Fleet Foxes played two sold-out shows at the Vogue this past weekend. Adrian Mack’s very excellent review of the show for the Georgia Straight is right here.

Thanks to everybody who bought this year’s Ice-O-Topes hockey calendar. We met our donation goal of $1,000 to give to the Britannia After School Hockey program and the cheque will go towards providing gear for the participating teens. The program has doubled in size from just under 20 players last year to 40 enrolled this year. Guess hockey is popular or something…
Thanks, thanks, thanks to all of you who helped make this happen! A few more teens will have the opportunity to learn how to play hockey because of your support (for more information about BASH, head on over to the Ice-O-Topes page).

This Vancouver act was third on the bill right before SWS. As GS writer Alex Hudson describes in his review of the show, “Run With the Heard kept the party people moving with its freakish take on experimental dance-pop. With as many as seven people on stage at once, the outfit delivered a genre-defying squall that ranged from Auto-Tuned pop to backwoods country to ’90s-infused hip-hop…”