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[Kav]

Jon,

I really like this one!

[austin granger]

Nice clouds Jon, Scott!

I don't have any clouds but I do have a coondog cemetery.

Coondog Cemetery, Alabama


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[Scott Schroeder]

C'mon Austin, everyone has a coondog cemetary :-))))
Hilarious.

[David R Munson]

Fugazi, Fort Reno Park, Washington, DC, 2002 by David R Munson, on Flickr

Major Fugazi kick tonight plus revisiting old scans.

In 2002 I saw Fugazi play at Fort Reno Park in Washington, DC. It remains the best live show of any band I've ever seen. I stood a yard from the stage and couldn't hear so well the next day or so. This was the crowd behind me, captured by thrusting my backwards-facing Nikon as high as I could reach and firing off a bunch of frames. Focus is off, there's motion blur, and I don't give a shit.

Nikon F4e (the best variant), Kodak TMax p3200 at EI6400, and a lens I don't specifically remember, probably a 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor S•C.

[austin granger]

Cool photo David. I think it definitely works for the subject. I would have loved to have seen Fugazi back in the day. You might have seen this, but below is a great video from an early show. The energy is incredible. When the audience starts singing it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJFWirQ3ks

From clouds to coondogs to Fugazi-this has got to be the lounge!

[David R Munson]

Yes! A small venue would have been incredible, but the park left nothing to be desired. The intensity of the crowd was palpable.

[Roger Cole]

I must be old as I'm wondering who the hell Fugazi is or was.

Still, I like the photo and love(d) TMZ though Delta 3200 is very good too AND available in 120. I still have to spring for an 80mm f/1.9 for my Mamiya 645 some day.

[tuco]

I don't have any clouds but I do have a coondog cemetery.

Is that just the name of the cemetery, the kind of occupants that are buried there or both?

[austin granger]

Occupants. Only coondogs (as opposed to squirrel dogs or rabbit dogs or fox hounds) are allowed to be buried there, and there were dozen of them. There were some interesting headstones and memorials there (dogs climbing up trees and so forth) but the light was pretty harsh and it was about a million degrees with a billion percent humidity so we didn't stick around long. My family is pretty patient with my photographing but they have their limits.

[austin granger]

Along Highway 61, Mississippi



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