Shots from the Newport Guitar Festival

[etrigan63]

The Newport Guitar Festival was held in Miami Beach last weekend. I just finished getting my gallery uploaded. I had help covering this event in the form of my 10-year old daughter Melissa as assistant photographer. She was packing a Canon SD750 point & shoot while I carried my trusty M8 + Nokton 40 mm.

This was not a music festival, it was a luthier convention. Luthiers are guitar-makers. All of the instruments here are hand-made, sometimes taking almost 2 1/2 years from order to delivery and costing up to $50,000.

Intricate carvings by Blueberry Guitars

Amazing fret bar designs

Carving closeup

Russ Strobel Folding Guitar

 

[etrigan63]

Shots from the Newport Guitar Festival, Cont'd

Vintage Double-Guitar going for $32,000

Doolin Guitar Harp

EVD Instruments Banjolins

Plant Guitars answers the question: "What if Jules Verne designed electric guitars?"

The rest of the set can be seen here. (84 images total)

 

[Cindy Flood]

Carlos,
You captured some amazing instruments. Do you have any shots to post that your assistant took? (I looked through the gallery and I could tell by the file names which ones your assistant took, but give her credit on here!)

 

[etrigan63]

Here are some of Mel's best:

And one of my lovely assistant

The Blueberry Guitar Fret Bar, Russ Strobel Folding Guitar, and the Vintage Double-Guitar images are hers as well.

 

[jonoslack]

Hi There
Wonderful stuff - I love the Plant guitars - wonderful and wierd, but, of course, the star of the piece is the gorgeous Melissa.

 

[Cindy Flood]

...but, of course, the star of the piece is the gorgeous Melissa.

:thumbs: Go Melissa!:thumbs:

 

[etrigan63]

The article is up (finally!). If you want to read it go here. Melissa has full credit on her photos.