Kanrocksas • Day One Aug. 5 • Kansas City, KS

I received a press pass to shoot the Kanrocksas music festival that happened in Kansas City Aug. 5-6. I got to see so many great bands, my favorites were Primus, Muse, Bassnectar and Flogging Molly.

Graffiti art wall

More art wall

Arctic Monkeys

Primus

Bassnectar

Flaming Lips were awesome. They had confetti, giant balloons, streams, smoke and strobes. Epic show.

Balloons and megaphones

Wayne Coyne is awesome.

Country Stampede

Country Stampede is an annual country music festival that lures thousands of people from across the Midwest and it's held at Tuttle Creek State Park in Manhattan. This is a notoriously interesting event to shoot because of the huge amount of things to do. Besides the live music and big name headliners, there's rides, vendor booths, lots of drinking and partial-nudity, and of course the campgrounds.

Lots of party beads, men and women.

Joe Nichols

Lady Antebellum

Lady Antebellum

Lady Antebellum

Not an unusual sight at Stampede.

The flier.

Crying after the show.

Blake Shelton.

Brad Paisley's audience.