I had an assignment to shoot a local restaurant a few weeks ago.  The idea was to capture the look and feel of the environment:  People having fun, good food, good drinks etc.  As I was working through my pre-shots and what I wanted, I had a crazy idea.  What if I had two people in the street.  2 normal people, sitting (in the middle of the street) having a drink….on a green chair.  What if one of those people was in a robe……….with a pipe ……….and had a golf club near by.  I was not even remotely sure what the client would think, but I figured that you only live once, so why not try it.

For a lot of these shots I was lying prone in the street shooting; prone in the MIDDLE of the street shooting.  I had no way to tell if a car was coming by; I could not see, could not hear, nothing.  There was enough nearby traffic that if a car didn’t see me, I would have been toast. I would never have heard it coming.  Thankfully that did not happen.  Most people stopped and more than a few times, people were staring at us trying to figure out what the heck was going on.

It was hard to keep a straight face for some of these!  This was a lot of fun.