One of my favorite elements of ThisIsSomewhere is that I can share some of the amazing photographs taken of the band. Photographers, much like musicians, are generally underpaid and unrecognized. Today, I'm taking nominations for the "Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Photo of the Year" contest. You can participate either as a reader or a photographer.<strong> In the comments section, please put a link to the shots that you feel are the most outstanding examples of live or candid photos of the band taken this year. Direct links to images are the best.</strong> Describe what you like about the shot. Entire band, single members, Animal, The Gnome - anything is fair game.

I reccomend browsing through the <a href="http://www.thisissomewhere.com/category/images/">Images category</a> as a good place to start. Feel free to post images from anywhere, I'm interested in things I haven't seen.

In a few weeks, I'll summarize the nominations and we can vote. Prizes? Hmmm, I'll try to work something out. For now, I'd like to highlight a few of my nominations.

Joe Koch took this great photo of Grace and her flying hair. While I've seen quite a few of these types of shot this one especially captures the intensity of the moment.

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Aaron Lafont show this one of Grace at the Voodoo Festival. Maybe it's the tricky Photoshop filter or maybe it's the intensity of the post B3 flameup but I love the framing and negative space.
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There's something about this photo of Scott that just say's "Rock and Roll Show" to me.
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This photo of Bryan by David Barnum is fantastic. Check out the lighting and little Barack sitting back in the background.
http://www.thisissomewhere.com/images/revolutionhall/bryan.jpg