Steve Miller Band Concert at Fontanel

This was a super fun evening!  My good friend Mike Sherwood had an extra ticket to this concert because his wife was out of town.  When he called and asked if I could go, I was super stoked about it!  The venue is one of my very favorites.  It was the outdoor setting of Fontanel Mansion which is a 27,000 square foot log home on 136 acres formerly owned by Country Music Hall of Fame® member Barbara Mandrell.

The cool thing is that this group although they’ve played together for years, still “brings it!”  The bass player has been a member for 28 years, and his drummer for 30.  the word “tight” doesn’t begin to describe what they do.  On top of that, they had a monster local keyboard player, Joseph Wooten.  As you probably know, he is a member of “The Wooten Brothers” and an incredibly gifted musician!  What I didn’t know is that he has played with the Steve Miller Band for 18 years all over the world, and it sounded like it too!  You can catch him most Wednesday nights at 3rd and Lindsley with my good friend Steve Forrest playing some funky, get down bass.

I know that you aren’t supposed to take cameras into these events.  But I rationalized it by seeing all the other people with cameras and almost everyone’s cell phones take great pictures.  Besides,  it was just my little point and shoot Fuji X10.  The final piece of information I used to justify shooting these pictures  was the smell of pot in the air.  I’m pretty sure that is totally illegal, possibly even more so than taking pictures.

So, I am still in love with my newest photographic purchase.  The Fuji x10 camera with built in 24-112mm f2 lens.  I would love to take credit for these beautiful shots, but all I did was control a few settings and let it do the rest.  I adjusted my white balance to tungsten and  set it to not exceed 800 ISO.  I selected the “low noise” option and as you can see, it really works!  By the way, I was able to carry this into the concert virtually undetected by putting it in my BlackRapid SnapR 35 case, a perfect home for this little beauty!

This next shot is obviously cropped a little and still no noise.  Remarkable images and great memories of a super fun night!