Dirty Show Prep

You can't take photos in the Dirty Show, so we just took a few before...photos featuring artist Melonie, Todd the amazing farmer/potterer/belly dancer, Kristee the beautiful and me, just trying to keep my dress from ripping, with little success...

Silly thing that lil camera does @ Firehouse #1

So after working a 14+ hour day, and before sleeping 3 hours to hit the road again for another 10+ hour day at the North American International Auto Show, we eat, drink (and drink) and be merry at the Firehouse, a rented out fire station across the street from Cobo...After shooting a series of car unveilings and press conferences, i was eager to show off the completely useless thing my lil Samsung camera does...

Bob and Dave trying on new hair do's (or don'ts). 

I like this "scene" titled, "my memory" i seem to use it on photos i forgot i had taken...(Ankur, RB and me)

I love you beer...

Brandy, and her brother, Chris Farina...(hmmm)

the silly thing my camera does @ firehouse #2

I think Paul is a pretty sparkle-shine princess, must be the fact he's not in Iowa...

Lovely Mears is princess of the firehouse...

yes, Perez, it is a beautiful life, now get over it and get happy dammit!

Dan giving Eddie a lil photog/editor love.

Photo Night 2008!

Photo night break break by David G. This photo has two strikes against it, i didn't shoot it and it shows my post-holiday stomache...however, i couldn't resist! After 5 hours of looking over end-of-year photos i thought things would look better upside down, not to be outdone, Dan joined in with a chair. (Yes, it was shot upside down, but Dan is amazing nonetheless!)

zee snow angel...

So my roommate, Tomasz, was just talking about how they don't really get much snow in his corner of France, and he's been waiting for a good snow to do his snow angel. Since any snow we've had this year thus far has melted within the day (and before i got home with my camera) he's been a little disappointed...but not today! So, in our winter snow storm and at least a foot of snow, he didn't hesitate and jumped right in....because you know, if there are footprints to the angel, it's not really an angel...

On the day Elena was born...

Photos of John and Sara's hospital stay waiting for the birth of their baby girl... All are doing well...

All smiles early in the day...

Sara dealing with others taking over her body...

John modeling the take-home outfit...

how else does a photographer deal with stress?

Or not...

a long day, but sticking together...good job mom&dad!

Personification of inanimate objects

I think I confused a friend of mine while chatting about the first time we had met. After a night of photos, bottles of champagne and a night walk on the beach, my room key ended up lost. Instead of trying to find it, and with the front desk closed (this wasn't a Holiday Inn, or the U.S.) it seemed best to just climb in through an open window in my room. I think I lost him when i started talking about how when i think of that beach, i think of a lone room key stuck in the sand smiling, if it could, at the thought that two people were more into eachother and remembering the last unopenned bottle of champagne then the room key. I know it's just my (your adjective here) way of wanting to assign and share the emotions with inanimate things, and i'm okay with that...perhaps that's why i like rocks so much (how's that for an introduction?) Fisherman Island's State Park south of Charlevoix, one of the best rock-hunting areas in lower Michigan. Although it looks like i was too late for dinner, i did find a petoskey for Louis' bday. Happy birthday Louis!
The Mackinac Bridge. This bridge freaks me out every time, so i just try to ignore it by photographing it as i cross, had a driver this time...which is probably best for everyone.