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Sleeping With Sirens - Photo By Alexandra Messick - Please do not remove credit <3

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Excuse me while I have one of those surreal moments when I realize that I've photographed my favorite band like 6 times now. Years ago, I was the shy high school girl that Mike and Vic let stand side-stage at Warped for no other reason than the fact that I loved the band. I was the girl that Vic brought onstage and sang "Yeah Boy and Doll Face" to while I basically couldn't believe my luck. I was the fan that showed up at 8 AM to every show in my area to get the best spot possible, and sang my heart out at every show. Four years later, I've photographed Warped Tour every year. I've shot every PTV tour since Collide With The Sky came out. I've had my work published in Alternative Press and other magazines around the world. I've had my photos featured in national ad campaigns for music companies, and yet even with all of this crazy success and luck that I've had, I can't help but be absolutely floored and giddy every time I shoot PTV, even though I've done it quite a few times now. I wish I had the words for how much this band means to me still though. Because I really don't. I still tear up at their shows, and I still love their music.

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Tony Perry - The World Tour Leg 2 - San Diego 1/23/15 Photo by Alexandra Messick

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Oven-ception.

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neverhurtno1-blog

Hi! It's super rad that you credited my photos and all but in the future it would be even MORE rad if you didn't edit them/crop my watermark out/add your own. As a photographer I rely on people being able to see my work and have it lead back to me (which helps me get hired, pay my rent, pay down my student loans, etc). When people crop/edit my work and post it online, it creates an image that 1.) Isn't representative of my original intentions as an artist, and 2.) (more importantly) doesn't easily lead back to a place where people can contact me. So I know you were trying to do right by crediting me with a link, but if someone saves these photos off of tumblr and reposts them....they don't lead back to me. They lead back to your blog, which makes it hard for me to pay those bills as mentioned above. I'm flattered that you like my photos and it's super awesome, but please in the future, for my sake (and that of other photographers) please post photos as they originally were, with watermark etc. Most of us don't mind if you put them up on tumblr, we know you're not making any money off of them, but it does make it a little harder for us to make money (and thus, keep shooting the bands you love) if you don't leave the proper credit on the image =]

xx Alex

I shot Pierce the Veil last night. This band never disappoints me. I am not just a photographer, but also a huge fan. They've been one of my favorite bands since their first album came out and I saw them when I was 14 on Warped Tour. Now 7 years later, I've had photos of them published around the world, and I am so lucky that I get to do what I do!