Wellesley photographer Richard Gastwirt for the 2nd year in a row has won the Fan’s Favorite award in Billboard Magazine’s Ultimate Music Moment photo contest. The winning picture, which beat out more than 2,500 other entries, is of Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne surfing the crowd in a giant hamster ball at the Nateva Festival in Maine this past summer (the festival founder, Frank Chandler, lives in Newton).
Last year, Gastwirt won with a photo from a Metallica show.
For more on Gastwirt, whose photos have been exhibited locally, click here.
Thanks for the mention! I haven’t updated my website in a while, but you can see my most recent concert images on my Facebook concert photography page – http://www.facebook.com/stageshooter.
Rich