Dane's birthday party was an all day affair, and right here, this, right here, this was only the half-way point. After this there was still two more bars, dancing, crowds, free drinks, drunk women following us around, more dancing, on and on and on.
Ah, but Jared, Jared is a man who, when he sees the opportunity for a power nap, seizes that opportunity. No matter that it happens to be During the party. He knows his body, knows his limits, knows when he needs to dive down into a snooze so deep one can take several pictures of him without any fear whatsoever of waking him.
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Dane knows that sometimes, being a successful dancer means using props.
And Dane also knows that a prop is sometimes the boa you take from a girl's waist, and then use to attack her with.
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All those burgers were cooked and eaten. Several people died of consumption.
which, actually, i believe has nothing to do with actually eating too much. crazy world.
The key to the burgers was a recipe procured from one of our favorite restaurants/bars, now defunct. Fortunately, the recipe was secreted out by one of the workers, and was now ours to taste again.
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I didn't know it when i arrived, but she was in the middle of chucking her old life away and starting up again hundreds of miles away. She'd been acting for years, with less success than she'd wanted, finally decided to hit the big restart and do something else. The big question mark in front of her was bringing up a lot of, well, everything. What do you do when you've decided to change? where do you start?
Grad school? Back to the old profession, working in film production?
Or do you take a risk, a job in a completely different field, move from one end of the state to the other?
Guess which one she picked.
Flux, if the shots are any indictation, is an excellent state in which to catch your subject.
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Olivia was part of my great weekend, just ended.
After breakfast Sunday, I brought Drew and Bryan; to her house, she wanted photos of her new hairstyle, I wanted photos, and something to do w/my new friends other than just eat French toast and take pictures of each other.
The last time I'd shot Olivia, it had been less than entirely comfortable, as is often the case the first time I shoot someone. They don't know what I want, how I work, the line of communication is rough around the edges.
This time, as usual, was smoother than silk, and she was fazed not at all by the fact that there were three people(two of them complete strangers) photographing her all at the same time.
Sure, for half a second it felt strange to have the three of us just taking photos of her for no particular reason other than our addiction to taking photos, trying to keep her comfortable, trying to make them all comfortable. But soon enough I stopped thinking about that, started thinking about the shots, and then it was laughing and shooting and more laughing and more shooting and everybody giving direction and Olivia down on her knees...I mean, you know, for the shot.
Such a good time was had, in fact, that after I left, the party kept on rollin'.
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