I first heard about Vienna from one of my staff. She graduated from Stanford with a Computer Science degree and decided to leave her Silicon Valley job to pursue a music career (Vienna Teng isn’t her real name).

Although nearly 2.5 years has passed since I saw her live for the first time, I still really enjoy her music. From seeing her for the first time, she seemed down to earth and was quite entertaining in introducing her songs and sharing snippets of her life. Seeing her at the Twilight Concert Series in Bol Park in Palo Alto was no different.

Check out her music and download and listen to a few songs. One of my favorites is the Lake Version of Gravity (not officially released) that can be downloaded here.

The Photos.

I couldn’t decide which lens to bring between the 28-135mm and 75-300mm, both of which I’m borrowing. In the end, I brought all four (including the 50mm and 18-55mm) since I had to bring a different bag that had the smaller lenses in it already. I ended up just using the long range lenses, mostly the 100-300mm. I thought about getting up from my comfy position on the straw mat to get closer, but decided to stay and not be as serious in getting shots and instead enjoy the music. At such a long focal length, as expected I had to use a faster shutter speed. It’s definitely nice to have a 300mm lens on hand.

1. del Says:
   August 11th, 2007 at 13:08

   Great pics as usual! Did you snap any of the whole stage to get the “feel” of it all? Ya, I started listening to VT about 2.5 years ago too. You personally can guess why it piqued my interest. Anyway, nice version of Gravity!

2. Jen Says:
   August 22nd, 2007 at 03:08

   Unfortunately I did not take photos of the whole stage. I guess that would’ve been a good idea, though I was more focused on getting close-ups of Vienna.