If you know me personally, you are WELL aware of what a HUGE fan of the Dave Matthews Band I am. Since I was about 15, I have absolutely LOVED them. My first concert was with a few of my friends and we went to see him. I remember waiting out front after for one of our parents to pick us up. We sang to EVERY single song and were able to sneek up toward the front and thought we were such rebels. Anyway, after seeing them numerous times and NEVER being allowed a camera (ok you always find a way to sneak them in) I was BEYOND elated when one of my friends, Carrie from For the Love of Photography brought me to her company (Qualcomm) 25th anniversary party and they had Dave there as a surprise for the employees. I brought along my pro camera and 70-200 lens and was ready to pee my pants in excitement when they announced Dave was coming out. Are you kidding me? DAVE FREAKING MATTHEWS was there… like what– 20 something feet from me? Everyone kept asking me if I was hired by Qualcomm to shoot the event… of course I said no but they still moved for me 🙂 It was different seeing Dave perform acoustically since I have only seen him with the full band. It was VERY nice to go to a Dave concert and not be surrounded by a ton of pot in the air too 🙂 That drives me nuts.
Anyway, somehow I took over 200 pictures… as if his face changes much, right? I will post a few here, but you can head over to the album on the facebook fan page and see the full set. Please remember to not remove my watermark or crop or edit the images in any way.
I can’t thank Carrie enough for bringing me. Seriously no words!
Now– maybe next year they can have a private showing of the play RENT? haha!
Karen
These are amazing, HIllary!!!! It looks like it was an incredible show!!!!