Anna calls her Isobel, but I call her Nancy

The Hasselblad had to go back to her rightful owner (pictured), who came out of hiding to spirit her away. It was fun while it lasted but, y'know, life goes on. That thing was heavy. I'll be fine.

I'm on Twitter for some reason. I only need 140 characters to blog the way I do these days...

We Are Dangerously Bored With Our Sex Dawrf

Dear Danielle,

I'm so sorry. I won't be giving your camera back, even if it is too hard to focus in the dark. I should have warned you this might happen. Are we still friends?

Regretfully,

--RG

P.S. Happy New Year. Was it good for you?

JPG Magazine Is A Thing That Exists

For those of you keeping score, the links to the left are submissions of mine for JPG Magazine. The images are not new, so no comments per se, but I'm curious to see what happens in the last few days of voting because... I'm bored. Blame Danielle, whose own JPG Magazine submissions are here.

Danielle's Gonna Have My Legs Broke For This

D: "...and these are going to all end up on the internet, right?"

R: "Probably."

I'm working on some publicity stills for the Hidden People (see previous entry) and got to bring in Danielle to assist in keeping my head straight, which is as difficult as you can imagine, and to help fly in lights for the location stuff (examples to come). Having someone on set who's better than you but is comfortable in letting you believe the opposite is very, VERY important.

Of course, aside from coffee fetching (not in a subservient way, but in a liberated, choose-to-do-it way), the assistant(s)' primary role is to stand in when the Photographer needs to see how badly he screwed up with the lighting (in this instance, a unit was not turned on). Furthermore, it is a happy coincidence when the Photographer has someone he's never succeeded in photographing assisting him. We've known each other for years and years at this point (it was quite a handshake) and have always seemed to be watching each others' work from parallel paths. Along with Bill Stengel (future Throwback Image Sunday candidate), she's my point person for all my tech talk and gear-head-wonkiness. I claim "Superfan 99" status.

Her home on the Internets is here:

Daniellestingu.com