Professional Concert Photographer In
Dayton, Cincinnati, & Columbus

During the summer of 2023 I had the opportunity for a quick trip to New York City, my sixth. I took my nephew on a sightseeing trip to some of NYC’s most iconic locations. Near the top of that list for me, a concert photographer and concert lover, was touring Madison Square Garden. This is the most famous venue in the world.

I have wanted to photograph Grace Potter for several years. The concert photos of her that some of my concert photographer friends post are always really wild. I wanted to see her for myself. In October 2023 I had the chance to photograph her and her band at the Andrew J Brady Music Center in Cincinnati. Since it was so late in the year, the concert took place inside.

In November 2023 I photographed my 2nd concert at Andrew J Brady Music Center in Cincinnati Ohio. The opening act was Eddie 9V, a blues-rock group with a definite style. This group was made up of some eclectic members with the lead singer not being able to stand still for a second. It is really everything you want to see in a concert performer. They were opening for Grace Potter.

In May 2023, we were in Nashville Tennessee to see night 3 of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour at Nissan Stadium across the Cumberland River from downtown. The first two nights of Nashville concerts were beautiful and warm. Unfortunately, our concert was on Sunday and featured a 3.5 hour performance by Taylor preceded by a 5.5 hour thunderstorm delay. 70000 fans, and hundreds more workers were hunkered down in every nook and cranny of Nissan Stadium from 5pm until 10:30pm due to a nasty, hours-long string of thunderstorms.

As a professional concert photographer and long-time concertgoer, I have been trying to see all the legendary musicians before they stop touring.  To that end, I recently photographed Barry Manilow at Cincinnati’s Heritage Bank Center.  This August 2023 concert featured the 80 year old Manilow singing all of his hit songs during a nearly two hour show.  The stamina he still has to sing and move around the stage was astounding.

On a Wednesday night in August 2023 I photographed the Gaslighter tour stop of The Chicks. This show took place at Nationwide Arena in downtown Columbus, Ohio, one of the best arenas in Ohio. As usual with The Chicks, we had to shoot FOH (front of house/sound board) but I didn’t care. I am always thankful for every concert I photograph. I usually take 30 seconds when in position to remember how lucky I am.

Ben Harper was the opening act at the 2023 concert headlined by The Chicks at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. This cool summer night featured an acoustic set, at least the three songs I got to photograph, filled with beautiful melodies and intricate guitar playing.

In the summer of 2023 I photographed Santana, a band made up of Carlos Santana and other world class musicians. The band puts out what I can only describe as a wall of music. The number of different instruments combine with Carlos’s amazing guitar playing to create beautiful music. The music is so good that was difficult for me to concentrate on photographing them. I just got too into the music.

As a freelance concert photographer in Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati, I love being surprised by a musician’s performance. P!NK’s 2023 concert at Great American Ball Park was a great surprise. I know her music, and I know she does acrobatics in the air. What I wasn’t prepared for is how intense this concert was.

At P!NK’s 2023 Cincinnati concert, Brandi Carlile put on a hell of a show. She was the opening act ahead of P!NK at Great American Ball Park in July. The majority of the crowd was in place to see Brandi perform with hundreds of people sporting Brandi Carlisle T-shirts.