This little shoot kinda just popped up yesterday. I was dropping into the camera store to talk to Mark about some stuff, a woman I know from town was in there lamenting over the pictures she took of her daughter- she needed headshots of her daughter because has the starring role as Clara in The Nutcraker. Although it is not the Lincoln Center show, it is a big production here in our county and a very big deal. And her headshot needed to be in the playbill. So, we worked it out and she dropped by my house today for a super quick photoshoot.

A totally sweet, sweet girl she is too. And a pleasure to photograph. And so pretty, too. Break a leg, K! I’m going to try to talk the boys into going to see the show. If not, maybe I’ll go by myself!

And J, I know you are waiting for your pictures from yesterday’s shoot. I am about 1/2way thru the pictures and hope to be done by tommorrow night. I know this one "cut the line’ but it was an emergency as the pictures are needed for tommorrow morning to go to print! So just hang in there. I can’t wait to show you….

This is our cousin, Billy, who is an actor and comedian (and a good one, too). He needed updated headshots so I got drafted- well, really I kinda volunteered- to do them. He came out from Queens for the afternoon and we hit a few spots around town that I thought might work.

We had a good time, and Billy was a real good sport (although he was the one who picked out his clothes) because it was 90 degrees here today and he’s wearing a wool sweater and blazer. I couldn’t look at him without sweating. He ended up staying for dinner tonight which usually only happens once a year on Thanksgiving. But it turns out that today is Canadian Thanksgiving, so it worked out okay.

Billy, I hope these are to your liking and I hope they help you (& me too) get lots of work!

At the surprise party I met a nice woman who was there with her two daughters, both adopted from China (that is great story, too-get to that in a minute) who also happens to be the principal of the middle school in town. She explained to me that the older of her two girls will be having her sweet 16 in a few weeks and that she would like a few pictures to put up at the party, and wanted to know if I would take a few. Being that the girls are so beautiful and sweet, how could I say no?! Plus the fact that it would be fun to get these two together as they share such an amazing bond. So we headed outside the restaurant and snapped away.

The story is that these two girls were best friends and grew up together in the orphanage in China. First, "JL" was adopted and brought back to America to live with her mom. Soon after she asked her mom to go back to China and adopt her best friend. Of course, the mom went back to China and came home with another girl. So now they are not only best friends, but sisters too! They came to America only recently (within the last 5yrs or so) and spoke no english- you would NEVER know it. Isn’t that the best story? Here they are.