Above are my top shots of 2009, I gave up reducing the set when I got the count down to 111 shots. You can click on any single photo to view it larger or once you have a photo up larger you can start a slide show as well. Enjoy and drop me a comment as to which shot is your favorite.
Now this is what I call a daunting task, to filter 51,162 photos taken in the year 2009 down to the “best”, the best, what is that its all so subjective. I made a list of the bands I photographed this year and the count was 136, see this list at the bottom of this post. Not bad for my first full year of serious part time concert photography, no wonder my 500 GB hard drive is nearly full. Well I decided to take try and keep the “best of 2009” group down to 100 photos, which is very difficult for me because I am a terrible photo editor and I like too many of shots taken at every show, I mean really how can you decide, they all have their good points, the light, the composition, the emotion the movement and on and on. I decided to use two approaches, first I would use photos that received the highest view count on my Flickr site, see these shots below, and then I would try my best to get the 54,000+ shots paired down to less than a 100 and post them here as well, these shots are shown above.
4. Dave Welsh of The Fray at the Mile High Music Festival
5. Rufus Wainwright at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival
6. Jakob Dylan at the Denver Botanical Gardens
7. Rob Drabkin at the Boulder Theater
8. M. Ward at The Rocky Mountain Folks Festival
9. Skylark of the Doobie Brothers at The Aspen Jazz Festival
10. Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar A Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta at The Monolith Festival
11. Kristen May of Verdera at the Denver Botanical Gardens
12. Derek Trucks of The Allman Brothers Band at the Aspen Jazz Festival
13. Isaac Slade of The Fray at The Mile High Music Festival
14. Time Reynolds with Dave Matthews at Planet Hollywood
15. Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas at the Aspen Jazz Festival, had to post two shots, well just because.
16. Ani Difranco at The Mile High Music Festival
17. Patrick Simmons of The Doobie Brothers
18. Andrew Bird at the Ogden Theatre
19. Warren Haynes of The Allman Brothers Band at The Aspen Jazz Festival
20. Damian Kulash of OK GO at the Monolith Festival
Bands Photographed in 2009
Show Date
Dave Matthews
10-Dec-09
Gary Allan
5-Dec-09
Jack Ingram
5-Dec-09
Eli Young
5-Dec-09
Jazz Quartet
5-Dec-09
Eric and Joy
28-Nov-09
The Black Hens
30-Oct-09
Mathematics Etc
30-Oct-09
Alice Cooper
17-Oct-09
OK Go
12-Sep-09
M. Ward
12-Sep-09
Frightened Rabbit
12-Sep-09
Thao and The Get Down Stay Down
12-Sep-09
Gregory Alan Isokov
12-Sep-09
The Depreciation Guild
12-Sep-09
The Features
13-Sep-09
Rahzel
13-Sep-09
The Pirate Signal
13-Sep-09
Neon Indian
13-Sep-09
Monotonix
13-Sep-09
The Dandy Warhols
13-Sep-09
The Glitch Mob
13-Sep-09
Method Man and Redman
13-Sep-09
Phoenix
13-Sep-09
The Mars Volta
13-Sep-09
Woodhands
11-Sep-09
Sugar and Gold
11-Sep-09
The Grates
11-Sep-09
Citizen Cope
4-Sep-09
Michael Franti and Spearhead
4-Sep-09
Umphrey McGee
5-Sep-09
Elvis Costello & The Imposters
4-Sep-09
The Black Eyed Peas
5-Sep-09
Drive By Truckers
6-Sep-09
The Doobie Brothers
6-Sep-09
The Allman Brothers
6-Sep-09
Railroad Earth
6-Sep-09
Brett Dennon
16-Aug-09
M. Ward
16-Aug-09
Mia Dyson
16-Aug-09
Blind Pilot
16-Aug-09
Trevor Hall
15-Aug-09
Rob Drakin
15-Aug-09
Susan Tedeschi
15-Aug-09
Over The Rhine
15-Aug-09
JJ Grey and MoFro
15-Aug-09
Joe Pug
15-Aug-09
Will Hoge
15-Aug-09
Amy Speace
15-Aug-09
Rufas Wainwright
14-Aug-09
Madeline Peyroux
14-Aug-09
Dougie MacLean
14-Aug-09
Mary Gauthier
14-Aug-09
Peter Himmelman
14-Aug-09
Vance Gilbert
14-Aug-09
Drew Nelson
14-Aug-09
Andrea House
14-Aug-09
Eddie Money
1-Aug-09
Contraband
1-Aug-09
Street
31-Jul-09
Jacks Mannequin
19-Jul-09
Buddy Guy
19-Jul-09
Gomez
19-Jul-09
The Wailers
19-Jul-09
Strange Condition
19-Jul-09
Thievery Corporation
19-Jul-09
Matisyahu
19-Jul-09
G. Love and Special Sauce
19-Jul-09
Devotchka
19-Jul-09
Incubus
19-Jul-09
Gogol Bordello
19-Jul-09
Gregory Alana Isokov
19-Jul-09
Paulo Nutini
19-Jul-09
Joe Pug
19-Jul-09
The Fray
19-Jul-09
Electric Touch
19-Jul-09
Ben Harper and The Relently 7
19-Jul-09
Ani Defranco
20-Jul-09
Rocco Deluca
19-Jul-09
The Band of Heathens
19-Jul-09
Lucas Nelson
19-Jul-09
Davey Knowles
19-Jul-09
Northern Way
19-Jul-09
Guster
19-Jul-09
The Wallflowers
21-Jul-09
Vedera
21-Jul-09
Contraband
27-Jun-09
Julie Davis
6-Jun-09
Something Underground
6-Jun-09
Opie Gone Bad
6-Jun-09
Angie Stevens
6-Jun-09
The Chris Webb Band
6-Jun-09
Savage Henry
6-Jun-09
Lucinda Willaims
3-Jun-09
Michelle Shocked
17-Apr-09
Hello Kavita
3-Apr-09
Achille Lauro
3-Apr-09
John Common
3-Apr-09
Dan Craig
3-Apr-09
Mike Marchant
3-Apr-09
Jen Korte
3-Apr-09
The Dualistics
3-Apr-09
Rubber Planet
28-Mar-09
Savage Henry
28-Mar-09
The Flash Mob
28-Mar-09
The Trampolines
28-Mar-09
Remember May
27-Mar-09
And Sometimes Why
27-Mar-09
American Relay
19-Mar-09
Utah County Swillers
19-Mar-09
White Trash Watson
19-Mar-09
The Besties
4-Mar-09
Lisa Genee
4-Mar-09
Mile Marker
4-Mar-09
Churchhill
4-Mar-09
Allison Lewis
28-Feb-09
Andrew Bird
26-Feb-09
Loney Dear
26-Feb-09
Tyrone Wells
11-Feb-09
Trevor Hall
11-Feb-09
First Act
11-Feb-09
State Radio
29-Jan-09
Rebulution
29-Jan-09
Jahnre
29-Jan-09
Becky Lee
10-Jan-09
American Relay
10-Jan-09
Reverand Deadeye
10-Jan-09
Reel Big Fish
8-Jan-09
Street Light Manifesto
8-Jan-09
One Pin Short
8-Jan-09
I Sank Molly Brown
2-Jan-09
Tim Pourbaix
2-Jan-09
Action Packed Thrill Ride
2-Jan-09
New Pleasures
2-Jan-09
Big Head Todd
1-Jan-09
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