At ICP Recording Studios we have a lot of instruments that we allow our customers free access to.About 125 guitars, over 100 amps, 12 complete drum kits, 50 snares, some 50 synths/keyboards and over 700 guitar pedals.

We’re proud of our collection, and so we decided to sit each one of them down to do their portrait for our Facebook and Instagram pages.Of course I was elected to take the pictures, set in various nooks and crannies around the studio complex.

Most of them were happy to pose… some behaved, some didn’t.Some just wanted to do stoopid stuff in front of the camera.But all in all we ended up with a cool collection of portraits and a few of them asked me to post theirs here on my site.Naturally I obliged…

This Gibson ES-355 was issued in 1997 as a BB King signature model, also known as 'Lucille' after one of his fave guitars.  Shot here in front of a large BW photograph on an oriental carpet on a wooden floor, room lighting reflections off the glass provide extra depth to the framing and blending of matching colors.

Canon EOS 5D MkIII with EF 24-105 L IS USM, original format 3240 x 5760 px; cropped to 1080 x 1920 px to suit standard smartphone screens.  Final editing and text formatting in Photoshop 2024.