Dallas Taylor of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
...taken from the upcoming Ferret release "II", out March 20th
"II"'s Art Direction and Photograhy by Ryan Russell

Converge at the 40watt in Athens, GA

Converge at Rocketown in Nashville, TN

Back in December, Taking Back Sunday flew me down to Tampa to shoot new press photos of them for the tour coming up this month. At the time I could only post the My Chemical Romance photos (see older news), but here are a couple of the press, live, and random photos.

Taking Back Sunday

After the shoot, the radio station they were playing a festival for never sent over a van to pick everyone up, so the hotel shuttled us over while Adam sang Christmas carols.

I shot some really horrible live photographs that I wasn't going to post.

About 2 weeks ago, I had to fly down to Miami to shoot Poison the Well's press photos for the new album. I had only been to Miami once before and it wasn't very enjoyable, but this time with the band was a blast. We went to Little Havana to do most of the photos and to a rad place called Versaillies for lunch, it ruled, but I couldn't read the menu. Since the photos are for magazines and such for the new album, I can only post an extra photo from the set.

Poison the Well

The night after the Posion the Well photoshoot, I hopped a plane over to Tampa to shoot photos of Thursday and Fear Before the March of Flames the next day.

Thursday soundcheck

Thursday at the State Theatre in Tampa, FL

Fear Before the March of Flames soundcheck

Fear Before the March of Flames at the State Theatre in Tampa, FL

Three weeks ago I went over to Atlanta to do Cartel's new press photos for the Cobra Starship tour. Go look at their new site, www.cartelrocks.com
Here's two of them:

Cartel

In December I flew out to Los Angeles to do photos of a two day Comedians of Comedy show. I can't post any of the photos till the dvd comes out of the show, but during one of the days Patton did some press photos and I can post two of those. There were about 40 altogether, you will be seeing the rest very soon when press of his new comedy album starts coming out, on a label you know and love.

Patton Oswalt of the Comedians of Comedy

Here's the Cross photo already posted from the LA show:

Just before Maylene and the Sons of Disaster we did about 5 hours of press photos for the new albums to go along with all the photos from the album photoshoot. Here's a few random ones:

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster

Dallas and Corgan Taylor

David Cross of Mr Show / Arrested Development
the Troubadour - Los Angeles, California

Fear Before the March of Flames soundcheck
the State Theatre - Tampa, Florida

Part One (Chicago and Los Angeles): http://www.ryanrussell.net/trip_part1.html
Part Two (Seattle, first half): http://www.ryanrussell.net/trip_part2.html
Part Three (Seattle, second half): http://www.ryanrussell.net/trip_part3.html