Photos: BW Best of Boise

 Best Local Working Comedian: Gabe Dunn

Best Local Architectural Treasure: Idaho State Capitol

Best Local Yoga Instructor: Marisa Smith Weppner, Sage Yoga

Best Local Bike Shop: George's Cycles + Fitness

Best Local Ethnic Market: Campos Market

Best Local Tattoo Parlor: ChaliceTattoo

Best Local Toy Store: G Willikers Toy Merchant

Best Local Bartender: Major Ludwig, Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine

Best Sleeping with the Fishes: Idaho Aquarium

Best Filled Hole: Boise Hole becomes Zion's Bank

Best Invitee to Your Next Cocktail Party: Boise's Funniest Person Jessica Holmes

Best Birthday Party: Boise 150, Sesqui-shop

Best Way to Put Your Money Where Your Bum Is: Drift Republic Jeans

Best Good Sports About an Aborted Photo Shoot: Jillopy Mid-Century Modern

Best Button Mash-off: Tournaments at Spacebar Arcade

Best Fill-up Station: Pre Funk Beer Bar + Growler Fill Station

Best Formerly Feuding Farmers Markets: Capitol City/Boise Farmers Markets

Thank you to all of the winners and their employers/employees, customers, clients and crowds, for allowing me to invade your space and shoot some photos for the 2013 Boise Weekly Best Of Boise issue. Thank you especially to Leila and the staff at the Weekly for sending so many assignments my way; what a great experience getting to document so many cool people and places. Truly a vast variety of reasons to love living here in Boise. PMS2013

Fun. at the Botanical Gardens

Fun. for the Knitting Factory back in August. Sold out show at the Idaho Botanical Gardens PMS2013

Tegan + Sara, ID Botanical Gardens 2013

Tegan + Sara open for Fun. at the Idaho Botanical Gardens, Boise, ID., 08 August 2013. Shot for Knitting Factory Entertainment PMS2013

Willie Nelson 2013

My excitement about getting the chance to shoot the Willie Nelson show was quickly tempered by his management's strict photo policies. The standard three-song limit was expected, but shooting from only the soundboard area made for tough angles and options. Willie sounded great though and I enjoyed his set after the cameras had to be put away. For Knitting Factory Entertainment, shot at the Idaho Botanical Gardens, 25 August 2013.

BW Image Roundup...

 Fresh Betty Spaghetti, Meridian

 Freak Alley Murals, Boise

 Janie Burns on her Nampa, ID farm

 Mark Carnopis of Valley Regional Transit, Nampa

 Zach Miller helps a customer in the Eastman Garage, downtown Boise

Jared and Brian on the patio of their new restaurant Dish, Boise

Photo work for the Boise Weekly, late summer 2013.

Articles on the BW website HERE PMS2013

The Dog Doc...

Jeff Brourman, veterinary surgeon and a co-owner of WestVet animal hospital for the IBR. Jeff kindly allowed me into the o.r. as he performed a bilateral arthroscopic surgery on a dog, back in July. PMS2013