Jodie Ponto Photography

Here are a few of my favorite photos from one hell of a Lastival weekend at Music On The Mountain in Fort St. James, BC (August 24-26, 2012). You can view the entire 90 photo collection by clicking here.

Click on the panorama for a full screen view of Music On The Mountain.

Security.

Oven racked by Doug Koyama.

Steve Brockley Band.

Chelsea D.E. Johnson from High Society.

Wax Mannequin.

Shari Rae from Miss Quincy & The Showdown.

Lionel & Rosemarie Conant.

Curing an overhang with puppy therapy.

The Broken Mirrors.

Ole Sanchez sits in with Miss Quincy.

Blackberry Wood.

Blackberry Wood.

Dave Soroka & The Ragged Elite.

Holly Magnus plays the best walk-on song in the history of toy piano walk-on songs — The Imperial March.

MoM Finale.

Some of you might wonder how I manage to survive on the income of an independent band manager and a photographer … Well, it’s only because I’ve been making a little extra cash on the side working as a freelance greeting card designer for Hallmark.  As a Bornday present to myself I’ve decided to show a retrospective of some of my best work.

I’ve peed on more roadsides this summer than you probably have in your entire life.  The two that put the icing on the prettiest roadside pee cake were both in Jasper National Park.

A few long overdue photos of Seattle’s The Cave Singers and Miss Quincy & The Showdown rockin’ a sold-out show at The Royal in Nelson, BC on July 20, 2012.

Miss Quincy & The Showdown

The Cave Singers

A few excerpts from the Trout Forest Music Festival in Ear Falls, ON … Or, as we like to call it, Fredstival (after Fred Penner, who was without a doubt the highlight of the weekend).

Miss Quincy & The Showdown at the Trout Forest tavern.

Although Miss Quincy & The Showdown may have mean reputations, nothing can reduce them to a gaggle of giggling 6 year old girls faster than hanging out with Fred Penner for the weekend.

Poor Choices Christmas card shot with Andrew Neville.

Ross Roeck, King of Hospitality & Master of Midnight Pulled Pork.

Jonathan Byrd and Corin Raymond, 2 of this continent’s greatest songwriters, rehearse for their set.

Shari grows a horn (or drinks a viking festival goblet beer).

Post-festival van & trailer fumigation.

Here’s an absolute once in a lifetime photo adventure — Full moon light so bright that the sky & lake both shine hints of blue and a night & water so warm that no one hesitates to dive in naked for the 30+ second exposures required to make silhouettes appear.  All light in these photos is solely from the moon.

Oyama Lake by full moon light.

Midnight moonlit swim in Oyama Lake.

Miss Quincy & The Showdown moonlight as Sailor Moon.

Attempting to awaken Artemis.

How many upright bass players do you know who can hold their big brown friend above their head for 30 seconds while submerged naked in a lake? I only know one — Shari Rae.

In this summer’s second display of unprecedented sportiness (see Hiking Quincy Style for the first), Miss Quincy, The Showdown, and I spent the last weekend of July playing on & offstage at the Kumsheen Rafting Resort near Lytton, BC.

Room with a view.

View of White Canyon from our canvas cabin’s front porch (click on the panorama for a full screen view).

Inside our antique-clad, electricity-free, luxury wall tent (click on the panorama for a full screen view).

Shari feeling sexy in her wetsuit while Miss Q mopes about being given and XL sized one.

Whitewater rafting on the Thompson River Peruvian pirate ship style (photo by Timshel Jackson).

Celebrating Fiestas Patrias with Nice, Peruvian rafting guide extraordinaire (photo by Timshel Jackson).

First time I’ve ever watched Miss Quincy & The Showdown play while lounging in a hot tub.

Miss Quincy & The Showdown rock a late night rafting resort pool party.

Morning-after-whitewater-rafting partner yoga.