Here is part two of my James Bond themed shoot from last fall. We set up our own little casino as Chad channeled his inner super spy for this installment of one of my dream shoots!
Have a look a part one right over here.
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Chad’s James Bond Shoot Part 2
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Chad’s James Bond Shoot Part 1
Saturday, February 19th, 2011
Last year I decided it was time to start crossing some of my bucket list shoots off. There are so many ideas I want to bring to life but I use the usual excuse of not having enough time and then I get to the end of the summer and realize I haven’t done a single shoot for no other reason than I thought it would be fun.
I decided to hit the ground running with something that I’ve dreamed of doing for years. Ever since I rented From Russia With Love when I was 13 I’ve been a huge Bond fan and after Casino Royale was released a few years ago I had a new favorite.
I met Chad last year after I did a shoot with his lovely girlfriend Lacy and realized I had found my Daniel Craig. After a few hurried weeks of tux shopping (who knew a peaked lapel jacket would be so hard to find), location hunting and planning we lucked out with the perfect Sunday to shoot on. Lacy did an amazing job of his make up and I really can’t say enough about Chad.
I made him wake up before sunrise so we would have a bit of soft light to work with before we went inside and he didn’t complain once. After a bit of practicing and coaching from Lacy and I we started with the main movie poster shot and then we started to recreate some other scenes from the movie as well as put in a few of our own ideas.
So here is part one of my Casino Royale inspired shoot!
My Birthday
Saturday, September 18th, 2010
I turned 30 a month ago.
Sigh.
To be honest, I wasn’t dreading it that much but I wasn’t exactly looking forward to it. It just seems like such a huge step and other 30 year olds I know seem to be so much more put together. They own a big house, have two kids, drive a mini van, have a 9 to 5 job with a retirement plan and go on a vacation every summer.
I was talking about this with my best friend over lunch the day before and as usual, he brought things into perspective. “How many of those things do you actually want,” he said. I certainly don’t need a big house to clean and pay for, I like my little car, I might just die if I had a ‘regular’ job and I get to travel every few months. I certainly want the kids but for now I’ll enjoy the perks of a child free life.
Becky surprised me with a basket of all my favorite foods the night before my birthday. There is a long story that goes along with this that I might share some other time and I know this might seem like a silly gift to some, but it meant alot to me. I also got a brand new pillow (again, it may seem like an odd thing to get excited about to some people but a good pillow goes a long way to making me happy) and the next day we took a trip to the Ex.
Apparently people don’t think that the fair can be just as much fun with a little rain because we had the place to ourselves! I decided a good way to leave my 20′s behind was to do some of the same things that I did when I was 20. So I ate waaaay too much carnival food. Took four trips down the Mega Drop and broke my old record of eleven trips on the 1000 Nachts ride in one day. We shared elephant ears, filled the car with all the stuffed animals we won, walked through the petting zoo and waited in line for the rides.
It was the perfect way to start my 31st year.
