This Sunday we drove down to Silver Spring to meet up with Nate and Kristen, who graciously offered to help us shoot a bunch of Jen’s work for her portfolio. Nate slept in, so the three of us got the first setup worked out and found that my G3 is not set up to take pictures of paper. Kristen took us in to a seperate room where her company’s digital Leaf camera was housed, and we found out why the camera is worth more than a new car. WOW. After we got the basic layout and lighting problems solved, the process became academic, with the only issue being how to arrange each group of material. Kristen was cheerful and understanding throughout, even when Jen and I were contradictory or indecisive. Nate stopped by later on to spin the tunes and provide moral support, and we took them out for drinks and dinner for their trouble. Thanks, guys, you’re the best.

And let me just say, that camera is incredible. It was great fun to be in a photography studio with so much great equipment to play with.

Todd was sitting next to me before lunch jamming out to something on the headphones that I couldn’t hear. When I asked him what it was, his clue was “the official song of sixth grade.” I correctly deduced Back In Black by AC/DC. I’m pretty proud of that.