Sunday I had the priviledge of shooting the Benzick's first family portrait with allllll of the family. Laurie and Aaron are some of my closest friends so I am allowed to say this....... This is a crazy bunch of people. For instance, Aaron's brother in law shows up in a "Respect your peeps shirt" in his defesnse it was black and that's all I asked for. Luckily it was an April Fools joke. Knowing how crazy they are it should have been no surprise to me that at some point we would be calling 911 on our shoot. Long story short.... We were wrapping up our shoot in a big field of bluebonnets when we heard a loud squealing of tires followed by a big bang. Aaron is one of Plano's finest so he took off towards the scene. Seeing the accident reminded me how important it is to STOP at red lights. A Camry did not stop at the blinking red light and was broadsided by two SUV's. The passenger in the Camry was severely injured and Careflight came out to the scene to pick her up. It wasn't until Careflight was landing that I even thought to run and get my camera. Apparently adrenalin makes your brain stop working. I was able to catch a couple of shots before they took off.
You would think that this would be enough excitement for one day but of course it wasn't. I had a senior session in the afternoon with Jessica. Talk about a beautiful girl! I felt like I was working with a model. She was a total natural in front of the camera. Our second location was this great place I found off the highway. Although the sign DID say "no tresspassing" and we had to climb a fence to get in it was one of my favorite locations. As we are wrapping up and climbing back over the fence a police officer pulls up. Capturing our expressions would have been priceless. The officer says there have been some reports of someone tresspassing and mischievous activity. EEK! He asks who is in charge (not very friendly let me add) and tells me to get my license. As I am walking to my car I decide it is time to "name drop" and tell him that I spoke to Aaron Benzick and he knew I was here. Rather quickly he responds that he doesn't know Aaron. UH HUH! About this time I realize someone is playing a joke on me. "Aaron sent you didn't he!!!!!" The officer laughs and tells us to have a nice day. Poor Jessica thought we were all going to jail. We had a GREAT laugh! So here are a few from Jessica's shoot. Check back in a few days and I will get a few more posted.
Pictures are not uploading so I will have to work on it and post in a few. Grrrrr.....
