Part II from my shoot with Amanda back in November.
[See previous post for part I]
Is a woman in various stages of undress indicative of my work by now? I sure hope so. I feel like I’ve captured this with enough of my models. We moved from my bedroom into what I lovingly refer to as the Wonder Room in my home for these photos. I thought about just including these in the same post as the bedroom set but well, they seem to feel quite different simply because of the setting. Also, my dog Ripley felt like crashing these pics, which I allowed. She was too cute to shoo away and I can’t think of any other shoots I’ve done in which a dog was involved? So why not!
Speaking of my dog, she got teased by a squirrel climbing on the screen of my office window 2 days ago and got tangled up in my power cords under my desk in the process which then caused her to rip my network cable out of my laptop as well as yank my external hard-drive onto the floor - a good 4ish foot drop onto a hardwood floor. After doing my best to stay calm and plugging everything back in only to realize my hard-drive was no longer mounting properly I quickly realized I hadn’t backed that thing up in at least 10 months if not more. (This is fine. Everything is fine!) Unfortunately my tech wizard of a husband happened to be out of town at an Oddities expo for our side business, Strong and Hardy and so I basically got to freak out until he got home last night. And then even he couldn’t get the thing back up and running and so I have been quietly losing my shit ever since. He is still in the process of trying to recover my files; (This is fine. Everything is fine!) and it’s still uncertain if there is some damaged files that cannot be saved. Unfortunately, this shoot with Amanda was something I had on that hard-drive that I hadn’t yet backed up anywhere else so I am still unsure if this set will be spared or if they’re gone forever. I guess the silver lining is that I had already uploaded these web-res versions (below) to this blog post a little while back which I saved as a draft until I had the time to write something to accompany them, as I tend to like to do. Who could have guessed that what I’d be writing would be a short memoir about the Great Fall of Becky’s Hard Drive caused by Her Sweet Yet Clumsy Dog Who Can Never Resist a Good Squirrel Chase and Now the Fate of This Series Hangs in the Balance? I could not have guessed it, trust me.
ANYWAY. Do me a solid and BACK UP YOUR SHIT. I have been doing this long enough to know. I literally can’t believe me. I’m happy to have these few below but I would much prefer to have my high-res versions.
Thoughts and prayers please. I need all of them!
