When is a rainy day a bad day for a shoot??? Never, that is what we learned.
I’m sure you already know who Brigitte Dale is. If you don’t… she is Yahoo! Video Best Internet Personality of the Year 2008, a triple century video blogger (only 18 more and she will be quad century) who now video blogs for ABC Family; and three words I would use to describe her are awesome, beautiful and fun. First I’ll touch on her awesomeness.
We had scheduled a full photo shoot of Brigitte two weeks in advance without even thinking of the weather. I mean… we live in southern California!!! Come on!!! Sun sun sun all day long every day. I practically never worry about weather. On the day of the shoot Vu and I realized it was raining pretty hard, and just as we started talking about it Brigitte text messaged me asking if we were shooting rain or shine. What did I say? Well, I can’t make her get sick by shooting the rain; Our first instinct was to cancel the shoot. For one, we have never done a shoot in the rain; second, neither of us can remember any photo shoots we have seen done in the rain; third, we would be jerks for making her do her shoot in the rain. But then we got to thinking… this is a truly unique chance to get some extraordinary photos. I call Brigitte back and it turned out she loves rainy beaches and is completely up for it, even after I threatened that she would get sick. Brigitte is awesome.
Next, Brigitte is beautiful. Well… I don’t need a story to prove this one. As you can see, she just is.
Lastly, but not at all the last word to describe Brigitte, she is fun. We had a non stop good time, from the time we met up through the shoot and through dinner, we never stopped joking and laughing.
So, as it turned out all the fussing over the rain was for nothing. As we drove up to the shoot it was raining harder than I have seen in months, but just as we were walking out to begin the shoot we saw perfect puffy clouds and a bit of blue sky. Finally, just as we began to shoot, we had one of the most majestic sunsets I’ve seen.
.
.
.
-Lan
