Photo Shoot - Day 1

I am tired and my feet hurt! I want to spend some time tonight decompressing and sorting out everything that happened today. My editor, Rachel, picked me up at my hotel at 8:45 a.m and we drove to the F&W Studios. The Studios are at a separate location from the main headquarters ... only a short drive away. It's located in an industrial area. The building is quite spacious and has photographic areas set up throughout, a soundproof room, and tons of props. It was very impressive and a little intimidating. This is the space we used for Painting with Fire.

This is my bubbly editor, Rachel. She is extremely competent and a very pleasant taskmaster. She had all of the how-to's that were previously sent. Using those as a guide, we went step by step through 4 projects and several techniques. Rachel is a joy to work with.

This is Christine, photographer extraordinaire! She stands up over me to the side as I'm performing something ... wrapping a bead, filing a wire, enameling a disc. Look at the size of her monitor. I would look up periodically to see the beautiful photographs she was taking of the making process.

Tomorrow we have lunch with the sales staff. This should be interesting. Talk to you tomorrow.