Lucy Blue is Born

I'm about a week overdue in posting about the photo shoot!  Bad me!

I don't really have much to say about it in all honesty...it went about like I thought it would, except is was more fun and much easier than I thought it would be.  The photographer did a great job dealing with a novice like me, and made me feel comfortable and provided excellent coaching with the poses.  Getting my hair and makeup done was pretty cool, too.  Kind of made me feel like a celebrity!  :)  I've never had my hair or makeup done for anything before.  I always did my own for prom, our wedding and every other "special event," but I knew I wasn't ready to do it for a photo shoot and have it look right, anyway.

Because it went so well, and I had such a good time, I've already booked another shoot and plan to do some more, possibly with a few different photographers (since I know so many!) and see what different outcomes and products I can produce in different environments and with different people behind the camera.  I know I won't ever become a "professional" model of any kind, but I enjoy working around the cars and being creative with them in my own way.  It is a style I've always been into, and something that is great to do for myself.  It will be nice to have a small collection of cute photographs to look back on when I'm old and decrepit.  :)

It would be cool to get published eventually, even if only once, but I'm not setting my sights that high just yet.  For the next shoot I'm going to attempt my own hair and makeup just for the hell of it.  I've been playing around with it at home some, and think I have a handle on what needs to be done to make it look right on camera.  I think everyone should have professional photographs taken at some point in their lives, besides a wedding, etc... and I'm not really the kind of person to just put on a white shirt and khakis and do a contrived pose under a tree.  If that's your thing, its totally cool, I'm not knocking it in any way, but that doesn't capture the essence of who I am...and that's the whole point of photography anyway.

Here are a few shots: