No, everyone was busy over the holidays, me being no exception. Though my definition of 'busy' involves anything that requires me to leave the comfort of my couch...erm, office.
Know anyone that could do with a good shootin'? Send them my way and I can hook them up for the spring and summer. Word of mouth and Facebook are my best friends, do do a guy a good 'un and spread the love...!
Had some really nice shoots over the break though, and last weekend was especially good. Starting up on saturday morning at the butt-crack of the day I finally got to do the engagement session with Lisa and Adam, with her bff, Adam's sister Kelly acting as my assistant and shoot manager.
It was so cold. The car (in it's warm smugness) told me that it was 1 degree outside. However for the next 2 hours while I toiled away in many layers of clothing, L&A bravely modeled their hearts out and did an awesome job! I decided against the run-of-the-mill engagement pictures and went with a candid, fun style. After all, I wasn't documenting an engagement event, simply two people.
Thankfully it worked, and they loved the pictures and I look forward to their wedding this July to do it all again. Without the long underwear however.
Lisa + Adam's Engagement Shoot from Steve Bowman on Vimeo.
The second shoot that weekend was perhaps the most powerful one I've done. It was of a dog. Not just any dog, but one that belongs to a friend of mine. He's been having some trouble recently, and well, Erin may have to make a difficult decision. Hopefully not, but just in case, I offered to do this. Glad I did.
I didnt really get emotional during the shoot, nor while working on the images, not even when I was picking out music. However, when I put the two together for the slideshow, woah, my eyes almost started leaking. They never do that. Point being this was one of the first times I've personally been affected by my work, so I thought that was worth mentioning. I can only imagine how powerful it was for Erin.
Aside from that, booking are coming in which is great! A quiet few weeks while we wait out the bad weather, so I'll have to stay occupied in the meantime. You may have to suffer some of my favourite pictures of dead fauna soon though.
Updated the copy on the website too. I guess I just felt that what was up there was too...well, not me. So hopefully it's less along the lines of what every other freakin' photographer writes and more reflective of what I offer, which is, well, nothing like what others are doing in this field.
Anything else? Oh yeah, because I'm such a great person I'll be volunteering work for one of the local humane societies. Doin' it for da goggies. I dont know man, I see those ASPCA commercials with Sarah MacLachlan and I get a little verklempt...
So that's the update for early January. Stay warm and I look forward to sharing some stuff with you soon!
