Archive for the ‘Portraits’ Category
Phao Album
After 2+ years the Phao album has finally arrived. I started designing the cover art when I was still living in Kelowna! I used some finger paints Santa left me in my stocking, and threw paint around on the garage floor until I got some of the results seen in the album. What I am most stoked about is the two page spread in the middle of the album booklet of the full band on white seamless! Lots of work to accomplish that! 

Malibu Knights Photoshoot, Behind the Scenes
Funnest Photoshoot of the year, NOW ON VIDEO!! Malibu Knights Photoshoot out in Kelowna. Thanks to Tom for putting these Vids together! Enjoy my extreme close up at the very end.
Mike Gnandt – Drums
Mike plays:
Tama Starclassic Bubinga Drums:
12×7″ Rack Tom
16×16″ Floor Tom
14×6.5 Snare Drum
22×20″ Bass Drum
Sabian Paragon Cymbals:
14″ Hi-Hats
18″ Crash Cymbal
19″ China Cymbal
20″ Crash Cymbal
22″ Ride Cymbal
Pearl Hardware, Remo, Evans, and Aquarian Drum Heads
Epic Rock Adventure with Malibu Knights
A long over due post of my epic rock adventure with Malibu Knights!! My last shoot with them was lots of fog and smoke, this year we stepped it up a notch. We ran to Rona to get some crafty materials, and made giant sized dynamite sticks! Quite the scenario that played out… Check their music out here.
Thanks to everyone that made the shoot possible!
Dustin Rabin
Had a good photographer friend of mine visit from Toronto for a few days. Here’s a quick portrait I shot before he left. If you haven’t seen his work before check it out at dustinrabin.com

Buying Original Photography in Las Vegas.
We found this great record store just off the strip on Sahara Ave.
I was on the search for some Zepplin, maybe some Rage Against the Machine. My girlfriend Sabrina was on a hunt for anything MJ. The first thing we see when we walk into this place, is a display case full of MJ stuff. The most unique item was this photo I bought for her for $18.
Turns out this photo was from Michael Jackson’s music video for “Say Say Say” with Paul McCartney in 1983!
The photo shows the final scene in the music video where Michael, Paul, and Lisa McCartney are running to jump in the back of a truck. The music video was filmed in Santa Ynez Valley, California which is about 6-8 hours away from Las Vegas. The guy at the record store said someone brought the photo to their store with hopes they could find a good home for it. We don’t really know how long the photo sat in their store, but the photo definitely found the best home possible with Sabrina and I. She loves MJ, I love unique original music photography. Win Win!
Dan Harden
Here is a shot of my friend Dan Harden from Malibu Knights. The photo was taken during their band’s photo shoot a few months back. We were shooting on a sound stage, and stepped outside to grab some fresh air, and saw this intense pink sky.
Henotic Jason
Jason asked me last month to shoot a quick portrait of him for an article being published in Beatroute magazine. There was one catch, he had to be wearing his favorite hat! He said something along the lines of: “If people are having a bad day, I put this hat on, and it always makes them smile” Made me smile for sure! We did a few shots by the bar, and then a shot on the stage that was being prepped for that night. He loved all the goofy posed shots, but I liked this moment where I caught him with just a straight face, it was the only odd one out in the shoot.


Malibu Knights Sneak Peak
Here is a quick 11 second time lapse of almost every frame I shot on the Malibu Knights publicity photo shoot in Kelowna, BC.
Malibu Knights Photoshoot Time Lapse from Jaime Vedres on Vimeo.
Last Day of Labour




Here is the video Thomas Bowerbank filmed while I was shooting Jeff Fero’s band “Last Day of Labour”. Tons of thanks to Tom for shooting this rad behind the scenes video!












