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For those unaware, a blackening is a Scottish pre-wedding ritual where the engaged couple is kidnapped and covered in messy substances like treacle, flour,…

 The Brook  

Album recording show at The Brook

I don’t remember when exactly I became aware of Leica cameras. I do remember the feeling of depressing a Leica shutter for the first…

Featuring Jon Batiste on the South bank  

June 14th 2025, Fomapan 100 shot on pops Leica m3  

June 14th 2025

The Henrys July 13 2024 at the Wave Festival

 by Akshay Gajria ed. by Namrata Sharma      The year 2024 began with my partner Namrata and I choosing our wedding song. The song…

In early May of our year of the lord 2024 the 02536 came to WC2N 5DN.   a thousand miles were driven  149,193 steps were…

Geoff was my Geoff.   The words hung in the room. This is how I introduced myself to a respectful gathering.   It was was on…

On February 24 erica and I walked to Bar Gate in the city centre and joined a peace vigil. The next day she wrote…

crooked coast’s coast fest moved to the falmouth drive-in at the barnstable county fairgrounds for an all age covid-19 safe event… and it was…

December 31 2019 at the Landfall

December 23 2019: Cape Cod’s hardest working band, Crooked Coast, presented the world premier to the video Summer at the Falmouth Cinema Pub and…

comics come home 25 was spectacular, however that is not what i am here to post about.  for me one of the great pleasures…

celebrating 100 years of the woods hole community association block party pot luck

isnt woods hole weird

big head todd and the monsters at the coonamessett ballroom

The second of two nights of Ryan and the Band at the Beachcomber in Wellfleet, Ma.

my favorite images… a second edit.  best of the fest!

knee windows at the elks

On June 25 2019, The Coonamessett Ballroom with WMVY and The Blackdog presented Don McCloskey and Ron Artis ii. Photo set and videos below!

this morning helen messaged the benshotme staff about a dream she had. this put most of the staff in motion and soon the team…

stills from “it cuts deep” a feature film in production by nicholas santos

stills from “it cuts deep” a feature film in production by nicholas santos

a feature film by nicholas santos, principal photography, day 5.

Here are 30 of my favorite images from Comics Come Home 24.

A couple of my favorites from yesterdays match at 4c’s between Salty Dolls and Beat City BedRockers.  Bedrockers prevail 168 to 142. Next home…

early summer and steve and amy and friends and time and space and lake taghkanic state park, ny  

photographs by ben allsup words by erica m. szuplat   “What’s two hundred eighty seven grams?” ben asked me just after I finished painting…

Two young women tried to follow me past security into the backstage area.  They were intercepted by the security men in blue. Why are…

I’ve never shot a triathlon before…. so when the opportunity to watch and snap off a couple shots in Lerici Italy was presented itself…

I had asked Erica to post here, however she is nervous that an internet full of trolls will ruin what turned out to be…

I may be too tired to editorialize lucidly… Here you will find some of the photos I am proud of from this past weekend’s…

It was with a little pleasure that I saw the Cape Cod Times photographers wrapping it up and heading home…. as I arrived on…

August 20 2016, Trotting Park Fields, East Falmouth, MA “Gilly’s Cup”

Today, while greeting the media, Shawn Thornton said; “20 years straight, I’ve been the worst player on every team I’ve played on and I…

It was paradoxically fun— in that it’s hard not to think a comedian is not constantly setting you up for a joke— to talk…

Hug your loved ones.  Support each other and your community.  I am pretty sure Lee would approve. LM5k

Three simple rules.  Work hard, have fun, change the world.  -Doug Webb Occasionally my day job and my passion for photography blissfully converge.  At…

In the beginning of February we won a contest!  We never win contests!  The benshotme staff bundled up and went to Boston’s newest hotel…

or, the best day of my entire summer (or maybe all summers). from the boys of summer? presenting your crooked coast. listen and watch…

october 31st 2015 saw grumpy’s pub in falmouth host three super groups (scary good)!  the line up was diamond guts, followed by grant park…

it was the dead of summer.  maybe a perfect night.  the bars had just just shut.  this is woods hole.

news officially started circulating this morning that the beach house has shut its doors.  to say i am disappointed would be an understatement.  as…

“It’s not our fault you love the wrong season,” so said I on social media. With this, I closed the book on summer, as…

july 29 2015 = bus+good people+crooked coast (with build a machine)+beachcomber = that feels pretty good.

the rush r40 tour came through the north east and the benshotme staff and friends caught shows in boston and newark

will dailey (and trio plus one) opened his summer tour at the beach house in north falmouth on june 26 2015

may 10 2015 was the first lm5k.  i am sure lee would be proud of her friends, family and community.

an unexpected day in Paris “an unexpected day in Paris,” a series of images from April 21, 2010, not only captures a day in…

Capetown, South Africa

“this was the first time we played and no one wanted us to it turned down!”  this recently came from the stage between songs…

on january 30 2015 arts and burlesque united at dr sketchy’s drawing slam at the cotuit center of the arts featuring the brazen belles.

if i learned a single thing from this experience, it was, if anyone ever asks you if you want to go to antarctica…just say…

on january 21 2015, real cape staff beset on east falmouth cardio boxing and fitness to interview sarah click in advance of her next…

sketchy’s says: Dr. Sketchy’s is what happens when cabaret meets art school! Draw outrageously gorgeous burlesque models (with BIG personalities!) in a lively atmosphere….

BSM staff peeled themselves from the couch and away from Pineapple Express for this awesome creature double feature: Brother’s Rye & Crooked Coast at…

what do you need to know about crooked coast… everything and this:

i have never been in a parade before.  i almost always have a camera with me.  i am pretty certain these two facts conspired…

each august, from 2008 to 2013, the barnstable county fairgrounds in east falmouth, ma was the site of the naukabout festival.  i believe benshotme…

in fall of 2012, benshotme staff and the newly formed brazen belles collaborated to create images for the belles 2013 calendar.

on march 24, 2010, the benshotme staff visited ryan montbleau band during the recording of heavy on the vine at camp st studios.  produced…