Day two of the trip went quite well. Woke up in Springfield and jumped into a photo with Karin. She had me by the back of my collar, dragging me down the sidewalk. Pretty fun shot, with some legit choking mixed in! Don’t have that shot edited any, but I did do an initial first pass over the image with Candice. Here’s a preview of it… assuming, of course, that everything might be different in it once I can actually sit down and focus on the post-production of all these images I’m making!
The drive was about an hour shorter from Springfield, MO to Ames, IA. Didn’t have to move the steering wheel much in southern Iowa… miles and miles of straight roads surrounded by more miles of fields. Pretty relaxing, though.
Once I arrived, met up with Kara and her family. Took about a half hour to really get going on production after driving pretty much nonstop beforehand. Kara and I built a pillow fort in her living room and created an image originally inspired by paper battleship games.
Afterward, I set up the lights for some portraits, something I’m doing also while here, more just for the relaxed nature of them, and to offer something to those who have invited me into their homes while traveling.
Here are some selections… the first is Karin, in Missouri. Then Kara, then Josh, her boyfriend who will be in a photo scene tomorrow…
Speaking of tomorrow, I meet up with Chantell, Menika, Ahmed, and Amanda for two more photographs in Ames. One involves a kitchen, cookie cutter, and stethoscopes, while another involves face-pointed water pistols and dramatic fog-induced retreats! Then it’s bagpacking time and off to Rochester, Minnesota tomorrow night.
Talk about quick encounters. In a related note, I discovered this convenience store gem in Midwest America… comments to it when I uploaded the image to facebook proved that I wasn’t alone in my first impressions of their name…
hmmm… until next time…
