Portrait of an Artist

This past week I had the opportunity to photograph Ian Wilder. Wilder, a Louisville Junior, is a Music Education major at WKU and plays lead trumpet in the WKU Jazz Ensemble. He has been playing trumpet since the 4th grade and is seen in some of these images with a beaten up old trumpet. The story is that he has had this horn since he started playing and has used in for marching band in high school and one day just decided he didn't want to play it any longer so he tried to disfigure it as much as possible. Ian has been a good friend of mine over the past few years of college and I'm glad he put up with my requests during this shoot, thanks man. Enjoy.