On our way to the parking lot after the aKing studio session, we ended up waiting in the loading zone for quite a while before a guard finally came to open up for us. I shot this photo of Jaco, the drummer, and think it came out super cool. I had seen a portrait of someone quite a long time ago where the guy threw his entire white balance off on purpose and I really liked the feeling of it. Obviously this won’t always work, and it won’t work for everyone, but standing in the cold concrete loading zone reminded me of it so I tried to do a similar thing.

aKing is one of my favourite bands of late and their album has been killed in my cd player since it’s release. There is just something about them that I really like and I think I really relate to their style of music. It’s always super crowded at their shows so when I found out they were playing the live at 5 in studio this weekend I had to make a plan. The boss hooked it up for me as he was doing the mixing for the live feed. Anyway, as always, I had a good time and even though the lighting is always terrible, I shot a few photographs. These two are of Laudo, the frontman. His presence is super and really different to most other bands. He doesn’t run around going crazy but concentrates on making good music. If you haven’t listened to them yet, make a plan.