behind the scenes of my lenses.

true Life            i'm a concert junkie.

i get thrills and chills from waiting hours outside venues in the death defying Florida heat, staring at those big doors waiting for the rush i'll get when they burst open as cool air zooms out into my face. hearing everyone cheer behind me knowing that once i make it past the security and my tickets have been scanned i can race past everyone fighting my way to the barriers at the front of the stage. legs spread as far apart as possible music blaring from speakers over head, fans rushing in behind and all around me. my legs are trembling and just when i feel like i couldn't possibly stand any longer the stage lights turn on with a flash. swirling around and around making the crowd and stage fill with different colors, techies strumming cords of all guitars and tap tap tap check one two three. as they disappear into the back the first band begins to play and i loose track of everything but the music. nothing else matters the pains are all gone and all my worries seem to fade away into the darkness as i become sync with the crowd as we sing and jump along to the beat. i reach my arms up above my head camera in hand feet at the tip of my toes, so there i am at my happiest capturing the moment with each little click of my shutter button. it doesn't matter that i'm squished in between sweaty strangers i know were all there for the same reasons the music. and in the end that's all that matters the waiting the pain the price of tickets the driving it's all completely and utterly worth it to me. with that being said here's a few pictures of myself at concerts mostly taken by others but non the less the moment was captured and the cheyenne we all know and Love shines through. ps HUGE shout out to my mum for letting me use her laptop for this because my computer hates the thought of me writing.

well...

as hard as it is for me to say this the words burn my toung and typing this makes my fingers want to catch on fire, they must be said.

DriveA is no more </3  you know the guys I've looked up to for over a year now, the guys who made me Love music the way i do now, the guy's who gave me my happiness in myself back? yeah those guys they broke up a few day's ago... yes i know people move on grow up per say and yes i know it's not the end of the world and they're not dead but i just can't get over this.

first time i actually felt important

 with jason after seeing driveA for the first time, i felt so important running around with my clip bord asking for emails haha

 they stoood out in the rain to talk to me<3

taylor meet taylor the panda...

thank you guy's for bringing me and my dad closer together thank you for helping me make him proud and thank you for making me love myself again.

you were and ARE my salvation, the day Jason got me into edbd (earth day birthday) changed my life he taught me that i could do anything i wanted if i put my mind to it.  he showed my dad my life the way i see things he showed him what i was capable of. he's the one that made me choose photography. i felt so alive in the crowd watching them play, i felt so infinite behind my lense capturing the moment showing people that punks not dead. punk Will never be dead. although driveA is over i will always remember how much they helped me in life and how much they're music meant to me and everyone else that supported them. i know that they'll get new bands, new music, new shows, new tours, new songs, new people. i know I'll see Taylor Bruno Jason Robert and Cody again. I'll support them in anything and everything because they supported me thanks for everything driveA goodbye~ chyster

Local band the crimson halo

the crimson halo happens to be a band full of great friends of mine BUT i must say that even if i didn't know them personally I'd love they're music and I'd love seeing them live over AND over and OVER and over and okay you get the point.

 this is Ariel hope stump she's the lead singer and pianoist

 this is keegan hurst (gutair )  and Drew Durden (bass)

 tommy Durden (drums)

 and last but not least tyler young( also on gutair)

not only are the covers simply wonderful but the originals are stunning the weekend i took the pictures that were shown above.. I  literally woke up every morning for a week singing wasting time a crimson halo original which can be heard here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c0SSe04uYM and they can be liked and checked out here. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/The-Crimson-Halo/117417981676550 please if you ever see this take the time to enjoy the music of great people and take time to enjoy the art of my photography it means alot to me and I'm sure alot to the band happy thanks giving love and rockets chyster<3

enjoy<3

graveyard dancing...

 the lovely Macaila Fernandes was my model for the day.. more shoots with her to come(:

warped tour 2011

blood on the dance floor

JayVonMonroe from botdf blood on the dance floor

dahvie vanity also from botdf

and again

i really wanted to feed the little guy so instead i bought a 4 dollar bottle of gatoraide haha

she's adorble

<3

uh i kinda think his name was Kool whip