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josh and rachael's little one

i've tried to do this shot 3 different times, today i think i finally got it right.

i have an interesting life.

today, i got "stood up", kinda. i had a bad feeling about todays appointment. she booked it a few weeks ago, (which is pretty much the pattern lately, all of july is completely filled, every day except for the 4th, more than half of august is filled now too..... what fucking recession?), so i was concerned and wanted to confirm things.

i called her yesterday and got her voice mail, twice. i left nice messages, saying i'm still good for tomorrow and see you soon and stuff. no big deal. called her again this morning, got her voice mail again. now, at this point i should have said fuck it and went to the pool. but instead i did what i always do, i did my job, got into my car and drove the 2 hours to just outside of philly to her house. there, in the driveway was a moving van. not only had she forgotten about the appointment, but had i been a little late, she wouldn't have even lived there anymore.

dammit

she was so nice and paid us anyway for making the trip, and rescheduled for what was my last open day in july.

this left me with nothing to do and all day to do it.

any sane person would have went home, maybe after a lunch somewhere in the city, not us. i says to sara "whose in philly?", sara says to me "maggie.... robin..." i says to sara, "maggie got the last one, today is robin"

i calls robin and robin says "lets go"

we proceed to spend the next hour or so looking for a good spot to put naked girls in front of, this is what we found:

then i came home. it was a good day, sometimes it's nice to get "stood up"

i've been photographing this little boy since he was nothing more than a good size bump in his mommy's belly, he has grown up so much and i am so happy i've been able to bookmark this time for such a wonderful family.

couldn't resist, sorry

• 09:45 Im afraid of the future #
• 09:56 A little group, its always been, and always will be till the end #
• 23:36 did something happen to michael jackson? #

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it was a nice traditional Jewish wedding, with a horse

my lovely lauren came to play for my first day back. there's another one i want to post from today, but i think it's best to put a little distance between first.

• 17:19 I fucking hate layovers, to much potential for failure #
• 18:09 The future belongs to those who prepare for it today #
• 19:15 On every side, the slug humanitarianism leaves its ugly trail, obscuring intelligence and atrophying emotion #
• 19:35 Connetong flight from atlanta to ny delayed from 608 to 744 to now 940 #
• 19:57 Progress is born of agitation #
• 20:14 Men do not shape destiny, destiny produces the man for the hour #
• 20:15 A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past #
• 21:41 Finally on the airplane #
• 21:58 I am never going to be tall #
• 22:08 Our flight attendents are named nissan and kia, no shit. i guess honda and toyota called in sick today #
• 22:10 I think they closed the door, we just might leave yet #
• 22:23 Were moving, goddamn it were moving, i just might get home yet #
• 00:44 On the ground safe in ny #

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• 10:00 10am, sitting by the pool, rum and coke, new book, and today is a work day, fuck me i have a great life #
• 12:53 bought a new camera, it's very advanced, you don't even need it. #
• 13:01 im addicted to placebos, i could quit, but it wouldn't matter #
• 13:02 a friend of mine has a trophy wife, i guess it wasn't first place #
• 16:51 I will come to florida to shoot anything anytime, damn its nice here #
• 16:56 These people hired me to shoot a wedding with a grand total of 16 people in attendance, including the bride and groom #

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why i actually came to florida

yeah, i can get talk into just about anything by pretty girls. i'm having a good trip.

• 16:32 Fuck you, im on a boat #

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went sailing today with my friends bob and steve and steve's lovely wife kim. even though we didn't go too far, ended up in a storm and stranded at a marina, we still had a wonderful day.

this photo of bob and steve makes it look a lot more eventful than it actually was, it was a really nice day off.

thats the rt 41 bridge at Punta Gorda, btw, for those of you keeping track of my locations