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Yosemite …for the first time!

oFunny enough, I JUST finally Yosemite… This is notable as, my mom lives in Fresno, and I fly into Fresno-Yosemite International airport when I visit, lol…literally she lived about 90 miles…yet we hadn’t made it up there on my visits until now… We went and had lunch at the lodge…a few images from our trek…and […]

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No Depression Festival 2009 – Live at Marymoor

“No Depression” hosted it’s first ever “No Depression Festival” this year over in Redmond, at the Marymoor Park Amphitheatre this past Saturday, July 11th, 2009… It was a gorgeous warm day here in the greater Seattle area…and music lovers came out to celebrate and take in this talented line up brought by the folks at […]

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Seattle says I DO – Pride 2009

Pride…a celebration of love and acceptance…here and wide…in Seattle this past weekend the yearly ritual outing of the out, the fabulous and the so dramatic, there are no words…reached it’s crescendo on Sunday with the annual Gay Pride Parade, and festivities afterward…through downtown Seattle they drifted, the politicos, the church groups (yes I said church […]

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Preview – Seattle Pride 2009!

edit: full blog post now up – photosbyelisa.com/blog/2009/06/seattle-says-i-do-pride-20… Yesterday, I kicked(or clicked, lol) it in the streets amongst the emerald city of love……… Here’s a preview of the over one thousand frames shot… I have gone through about 80-90 percent of the frames…and while shooting I was lamenting that maybe they weren’t as good as […]

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Don't shoot the bass player…Noise for the Needy 2009

That’s right…don’t shoot the bass player…this was the edict on the headliner for the first of 2 gigs I shot this weekend, both at Neumo’s supporting the Noise for the Needy 2009 Festival… The request was an odd one, security crossed it’s eyes! but alas pretty easy to accomplish as she was stage opposite of […]

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Kate Voegele visits the Emerald City!

Our city is now sparkling in the sun…and a bit warm! Kate Voegele and her band of talented musicans visited Seattle on her “Lift Me Up!” tour supporting her CD “A Fine Mess”… All the squeeing girls – her music’s demographic were out, early and lined up…very excitable…I was surprised! and old….likely the oldest non […]

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Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears at the Tractor Tavern…

So, I was asked to shoot Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears recently…they are all the buzz apparently in musicland… They played here, opening for “Lucero” at the Tractor Tavern over in Ballard this past Friday kicking off the Memorial Day weekend…a sold out show… They have a very cool vibe, and you could tell […]

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Scott Weiland…thoughtful and sans bubbles…….

Sigh…there were bubbles…but alas I was shooting the first 3 (3.5 according to security, 2.5 accordcing to me, lol)…not the last 3…if only… Anywho, it was a much different Scott than I experienced in ’07 at the sold out Velvet Revolver show (sorry no pics,I was just an uber fan up front;) This go round, […]

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Sunny day out…

I went out to Bainbridge Island yesterday…the day was probably the first legitimately nice sunny warm(almost hot) day this year in Seattle…it was simply, gorgeous… I think I even got a little sunburn on my arms…… Taking the ferry over to the Island, affords the gorgeous views of Seattle… Some stunning water views over Elliot […]