We had another very excited and promising future actor pose for the lenses recently, and we used some local building structures to vary the results of the shoot as much as possible. Beams of light, slits illuminated by sun rays, and soft, overhead light bounced off of light-colored cement walls as shown here flattered Susan, and let us have some fun trying not to laugh too hard as people we knew kept drivign past us in cars.

( The moving cars and light chasing are a good segue, too...I was recently turned on to this post at Reuters, about an assignment editor who thought she'd try making photos for the day(s) instead of the writing. Whoops - harder than you think, especially with dogs;) Read HERE)

Anyway, good luck with the auditions, Susan - but bet you won't need much, you're charming and great!

We were also honored to race through traffic and shoot another fun gathering of the gang at Firstborn Multimedia, who had rented the Sky Rink at NYC's Chelsea Piers for the evening. Owner and president Michael Ferdman treated his talented staff to a couple of hours of ice skating, food and fun while Lindsay and I made images of the event for the archives.

Something different we like to do at parties is set up a quick portrait station for "photo booth"-style images, where the subject is encouraged to have as much fun for three images as they can. Usually we'll do this in black and white to mimic what a photo booth might give you at the carnival, but with the ring flash getting bored of fashion use and fill-lighting only, we brought that along to make some contrasty, color-popping images for this crowd. Safe to say they needed little encouragement to let loose in front of the camera, their kinship and personalities shining...and that's a great thing, saying a lot about what it must be like to work there at Firstborn. Cheers, gang - you're all fantastic for playing along!