We had a lot of fun shooting this months covers for The Bay and our first cover for Providence Monthly.

Working with the crew at Providence Media is simply awesome. I'm not sure whose idea putting the arm in was. It may have been mine. I like floating disembodied limbs for some reason. I think it makes it look more real. Having Karli lay down on the floor was almost certainly my idea - I tend not to think of the cleanliness / ease of moving in a skirt implications. I'll take credit for making her terribly uncomfortable for 10 minutes or so while I clicked away in longish exposures.

They caught me off-guard with the choice for The Bay cover. The original brief included a very different cover shot. I guess it was nixed because of Christmas decorations. In fact I think a number of prettier photos were ditched for that reason. I guess I tacitly considered the implications for the January edition but I assumed that it was an acceptable problem ~ given the specificity of the brief anyway.

Still, there were a number of photos that we had fun with so I'm happy with the outcome. A bit of a dark photo for the cover... but didn't really shoot/process that as a cover option. I'm glad they liked it though. I kind of thought the girl in the stacks was a cool option but I am assuming that it didn't allow enough space for text.

Onward and upward; due to timing constraints we had to pass on the SO RI cover this coming month. Until next time.