No, this post is not about the goo that you let collect underneath the drawer in your fridge. Yuck. It's about Josh. Trish too actually. Josh is the guy in the pics above. Trish is his girlfriend doing his hair in the pic below. Yes that's right, an honest to goodness straight guy! Notice that I didn't even put the word straight in quotes. He's really into girls! Actually girl, singular.
Josh and Trish drove all the way down to Indianapolis from about an hour east of Chicago in a snow storm just to work with me. Talk about dedicated. They are absolutely the most adorable couple I've ever seen. So in love with each other it would have made my teeth hurt if the adoration wasn't as genuine as it was. Anyway, 4 hours is the normal drive time for the trek they made. it took something like 6 with the weather conditions.
We had a few ideas planned out prior to the shoot, some of it was just flying by the seat of our pants. Trish had advised Josh that he needed to pose nude for the first time. So he did. It was cute. No, not "it". "It" was fine, but his demeanor was cute. Here's this tattooed, punked out, pierced guy laid bare before the camera and with nothing to hide behind he was vulnerable. Sometimes a guy is a little embarassed for a minute or self conscious but that wasn't it with Josh. It was like his security blanket had been taken away and he was simply... stripped. Trish saw this and helped him to feel more secure. The shots turned out very well.
They were alot of fun to work with and even to hang out with. We all were smokers. I'm an ultra light kinda guy but Josh smokes Reds. (ewww) He asked to bum one and when I pointed out that it may be like sucking air for him, he asked for a pair of scissors and just nipped off half the filter. What a guy.
They ended up moving to Las Vegas, NV. for awhile but I hear they are moving back to the midwest soon. We've kept in contact and I hope to have them both back in the studio whenever it can be arranged.
0 comments:
Post a Comment