Photo Shoots

It makes me giggle when I'm out at events and people say to me, "Aren't you blonde on the website?"

It's true. The photo shoot that took place just mere days after I arrived at the station was...another hair lifetime ago.

How well I remember this day. It was in the dead of summer and we lost 3 pounds of sweat just lugging our bag-o-beauty products from the parking garage of the Grand Wayne Center into the main hallway where we had our photo shoot. We barely knew each other and set up camp at opposite ends of a public bathroom to curl and straighten and reapply makeup...and then we got to know each other's personal space pretty well as Amy took our pictures.

But alas...it's approaching 3 years later, and I've got a whole new hair life going on, in addition to a new name, and it was time to redo the photos.

SO....we called Amy and made an appointment to meet her at the Friendly Fox...a little cafe near the station...for a new photo shoot. Pretty sure the fine folks at the Friendly Fox had no idea what to think when Lynne and I busted in the front door with bags and hanging clothes...and purses and books and laptops and phones and spare shoes...

First order of business - had to get coffee props. Well THAT'S a crying shame.

It's a salted caramel mocha. And it was every bit as delicious as it looks. In fact, I got a little testy whenever Amy suggested a shot that didn't include it. Why? Why would you do that? Why would you take coffee out of my hands??? {hee hee hee}

Now. Lynne is not a coffee drinker. I'll give you a minute to absorb that I could be such close friends with someone who doesn't consume the liquid gold. So her coffee cup prop looked more like this:

Why yes. That is iced lemonade in a coffee cup.

It was so much fun, you guys. Amy is a good photographer - the kind that watches out for things like sweaters that don't lay right or the stray hair sticking precariously in some wayward direction.

She thought of all sorts of creative poses and climbed and crawled all over that cafe making us look skinny and cute. God bless her.

That's a shot Lynne took of me while Amy changed batteries.

We had the BEST afternoon. Three outfits, probably hundreds of pictures, lots of laughter, and so much fun. I can't wait to see the finished products!!