I'm a professional photographer

So, as of today, I am now getting paid to shoot pictures. Very little pay, but exciting nonetheless. Last night, I went to the first night of the Pygmalion Music Festival in Champaign. There, at the Canopy Club, I took the rented Canon 5D (which I severely coveted) and the rented 50mm f/1.4 lens to the show and started to click away. There was some great music and times from the likes of Common Loon, Coco Coca, Elsinore, Decibully, and Times New Viking. I truly enjoyed Elsinore (who I have seen before) and their sound. Decibully had a really neat epic sound, and Times New Viking had enough energy to fill the whole club. In any case, I digress...

Beth of Times New Viking plays the keys and sings at the Canopy Club on Wednesday night.

I shot a whole bunch of pictures, had to sort through them, choose about 25 photos to give to Buzz Magazine, who is my employer for the semester. I had to wait a few hours, but low and behold, my first images are on the217.com! Check them out here. The four images in the slideshow aren't my favorites, but is still really exciting to see them online. Let me know what you think. Soon I'll also have some other ones on flickr to be seen by any of y'alls.

And be sure to check out the new bands!