I had a chance to shoot my favorite bar, O'Brien's Pub on Convoy street the day before heading to the desert. This place is indeed "The Hoppiest Place on Earth", and was named one of the top 15 beer bars in the country.


I got there half an hour before they opened, hoping to get it all to myself but some regulars have their own keys, it seems.



This was totally the wrong time of the day to shoot, since daylight was streaming through the windows, but it gave me a chance to try shooting some interiors. At 11mm focal length, you can get a lot of a room into a shot. I don't really know how to properly position a camera to make the room look good, but it was fun to take a crack at it anyway. A creamy porter for breakfast helped too.