Cold, Wet and Dirty
May 19th, 2009
I often tell my models that they will get cold and wet and dirty if they work with me. That’s what happened to Brooke today. At least for a short while in the morning.
It was cold and raining this morning. We got up early and drove to the park to shoot at a spot we saw yesterday that Brooke wanted to return to for a shot. It was along a very popular trail. But by arriving early in the morning in a pouring rain we saw no one else at all on the trail and we got the shot. At that point Brooke was pretty cold and Gaea was sure she wasn’t interested in getting naked in that weather.
But we didn’t give up completely. We went to the visitor center to see what the weather was doing on the other side of the park. The weather often differs from one side of the mountains to the other. The web cam showed it was raining hard there too and the forecast was for more of the same all day.
So we went back to the condo and napped and relaxed. Tomorrow it’s up early again and off to meet a local model for a shoot at a different location that she has suggested for us. The weather is supposed to improve and stay good for the rest of the week. I’d actually rather shoot in overcast, but it sounds like it will be sunny and warm the rest of the time we are here. And today it was just too cold, even though the light was very nice. So I’m going to try to schedule things for Thursday and Friday that will put us in the shade of the mountains each day while we are shooting. We’ll see if that works out.
We’ve been getting some good photos. The trip is already a success, even if we didn’t take another shot. But we have lots more shooting to do in a bunch of locations that we have yet to visit. That’s Brooke up above, of course, from Monday’s day of shooting near McDonald Lake. And below is Gaea by Avalanche Creek on the hike up to the lake when we were sweating in 80 degree heat yesterday.
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