My last ten days home

Well as most of you know I do a lot of traveling in my job mostly Vancouver Island in and around the Nanaimo area, and I am only home in Calgary for ten days at a time. Well my last ten days where rather busy. I was arranging interviews for the Tattoo documentary I am working on and trying to get some photo shoots in as well as meeting with Lori to get my logo done. So while I was home I had 4 photo shoots with some pretty awesome models. But right now I only want to talk about one of the shoots.

I was bored one day and texted my friend Jewels Sherren who is a Make Up Artist and told her i was bored and asked if she knew anyone who wanted to shoot. She told me she did and that she could arrange it in a few days. I told her that would be great and that I looked forward to working with her again (Jewels is awesome). So that day of the shoot roles around and I arrive at Jewels house and find Jewels, and  Jory Davie (Hair stylist) putting the finishing touches on our lovely model Sara Galloway.  Sara wanted to do a Suicide Girls kind of look to her, but not the trashy look the more moderate look and I think Jewels and Jory did a great job. Now it was my turn to make there vision a reality on camera. So Jory, Sara and myself load into my Escape and head downtown Calgary to shoot!

Now this was a very interesting shoot for me as I had never really done anything like this, most of the time the people I meet want to shoot in a park. And let me tell you I was very happy no to be shooting in a park this time around (we did end up there for a few shots but that was my idea, I wanted to use the stage in Princess Island Park). We ended up in an older part of downtown Calgary where the buildings are just a little run down. And the results where great for the look that Sara had. We ended up driving all over the place finding new places to shoot and shooting in places I had been too but never thought of taking people. So all in all it was an amazing shoot and I look forward to working with the girls again as we discussed a few shoot ideas for the next time I am home. Not to give to much away but it is going to be dark and a little twisted I love it!!

Well everyone hope you have a great evening and an awesome weekend. I am waiting for a model to show up and shoot here on the island so I am sure another blog post is coming shortly.



Christopher Renaud