Succulent Saturday - another photo shoot!

Greg Spalenka and his lovely wife, Roxana Villa are in town this weekend - primarily for the Chocolate and Artisan Fragrance Salon this weekend...

In a few hours of downtime today, we got together again for another photoshoot like we did in March -

This time we were in a tiny studio-condo...

(It was very entertaining seeing the contortions Greg went through to get interesting shots!)

Roxana was also on hand to give input- since a number of these shots are for her botanical fragrances...

There was some playing around and trying out the props-

(in this case, enormous elk antlers...)

(using the antlers in the actual shoot... Photoshop may or may not be involved in the outcome... :-)

Many different variations were tried..

A number of hours later, exhausted but happy, we called it a (lovely!) day...

Music Monday - Marrakesh Night Market (plus photoshoot!)

After an amazing weekend with Greg Spalenka's Artist as Brand workshop (you can see my report on it here), we had one final afternoon before I had to return him to the airport which I spent helping him out with a fantabulous photoshoot. It ended up feeling a bit fairy-ethnic as we listened to Loreena McKennitt in the background, so you get to as well, as you peruse the following pictures:

Greg connected with a local model, Jessica Lough. She and I both brought boxes and bags of fabrics, accouterments and costuming elements to choose from.

Greg was very inventive with our limited resources.

 Many variations of costume and lighting were attempted.

(Is this not the best profile *ever*?!!!) 

Jessica's fabulous significant other was put to work right and left -

- from light-holding, to fan-holding -

-to photographer holding!

 Fun shoot. Great weekend overall!