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October 8, 2012
In 1987, I was fortunate enough to be the house photographer at Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wisconsin. It was a great job, with no pay, but it was fun. When I was a bit younger and in high school I was on the Alpine Valley Ski Patrol at the ski hill at the same resort! That could be a whole different interesting blog with some good stories.
Alpine Valley is legendary for all the acts that have performed there, but Madonna's show on August 2, 1987 was truly amazing.
When she came to Alpine Valley on her True Blue Tour, construction had to be done because she required a bigger stage. They took out the back walls and made the stage deeper for her big show. She had a huge band and showed a lot of video on a large screen during her show which was why the stage had to be expanded.
She did not disappoint. The crowd loved her singing and every costume that she wore.
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October 1, 2012
After talking with a friend this week who liked Jackson Browne, I went back to my archives and found some pictures from a show on May 10, 1975. On that day, Jackson Browne played the Milwaukee Performing Art Center and Phoebe Snow was the opening act.
I have always liked Jackson Browne. He has a voice and sound that I can never hear enough of. Jackson also plays slide guitar and David Lindley plays in his band. He too is one of the best slide guitar players around.
All the new music coming out these days will not last as long as Jackson's music will.
Phoebe Snow was a great opening act. She had a great voice.
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Rich Zimmermann
September 24, 2012
This past weekend, my wife Claudia and I, photographed Michelle and Chris Jerina's wedding. Congratulations to them and they are presently on a nice honeymoon in Hawaii.
After downloading all the photographs from Saturday, it made me realize how the digital world has spoiled us wedding photographers. I used to shoot one or two rolls of film before the ceremony and then make sure I had a fresh roll of film for the ceremony. Now, we can just shoot away and capture every moment possible without reloading! It is very nice and all the new digital photographers do not realize how nice it is!
I think in this digital wedding world I take a lot more pictures than I used to because I do not have to reload a camera. I need to edit about 1000 photos and put some on collages.net for the family and friends to view. We still put an album together of 4 X 6 photos but putting the wedding on the web is really a nice new feature of the digital world.
How the photo/wedding world has changed is for the good I think and here are just a couple of photos from the wedding.
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