Laying Around
August 13th, 2010
A couple weeks ago I got the chance to work with Ayn again. I’d work with her a lot more if she were more available. She’s a fine model and great to work with. I still am looking for a couple new models to work with regularly. I’ve had the worst run of luck over the past month or two with having models available when I need them. I’ve sat at home for days while the weather was perfect for the work I want to do outdoors, but I had no model available. Then when I have a model, the weather is all wrong. That’s what was happening when I did this shot with Ayn. As you can see, it’s sunny. I wanted overcast, which is what the weather had been for a week, until this day when I was ready to go out and shoot. I can work with sunny, but it limits what I’m able to do and keeps me from getting some things that I’d like to shoot this summer.
And, of course, the heat has been awful for weeks now. This heat wave is driving me to stay inside at a time when I usually am out wandering around in the woods and shooting photos. Heat indexes in the low 100s don’t make hiking a lot of fun. But I’m just one more person complaining about the weather. Complaining isn’t going to change it. The solution is to find a couple more models who are available more often. I’m working on it. I shot with one new model yesterday and I’m very happy with that shoot and with her as a model. You’ll be seeing those photos here in the near future.
Meanwhile, things are going to get busy around here. My old friend Dave Rudin is arriving from NYC on Sunday. He plans to hang around for several days and do some shooting. And it sounds like the heat wave may end just about the time Dave arrives, which will mean some more comfortable conditions for the outdoor shoots.
And Dave is bringing a real bonus along with him. He’ll have Kelsey riding along after she spent a week working with some top-notch photographers in New York City. That means I get to work with her again a time or two before she heads back to Seattle for another year of college. Maybe there will be an overcast day…you never know, my luck could change.
On top of all that my truck broke down and has been at the mechanic’s since Wednesday. Not because the repair is a big deal (it’s a coolant leak) but because it wasn’t scheduled and my mechanic has been very busy this week. I hope to get it back today. My daughter is here for a few days, so she has been driving me around for errands that need to be done. If they don’t get to my truck today Dave R may end up doing all the driving next week.
As Rosanne Rosanadana would say, “It’s always something.”
One Response to “Laying Around”
1Dave Rudin
August 13th, 2010 @ 1:04 pm
And you’re expecting your luck to change with me around???
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