Last night we toted long perfect stalks of bamboo up to the studio. Then the client's wife donned a black bikini. We placed sunglasses in the hip circle of said bikini. We put sunset light on the bamboo with full CTO gels. I gave her yoga teacher-like instructions on how to twist to maximize her lovely feminine line.

Then the post production began. Text, color, font choices, font sizing. It was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle.

After shooting and designing for a couple of hours, we hunkered down to some sublime Calzones. Is this job great or what?

The client walked out 5 hours later with his promotion ready to go to press.

On Saturday I completed a 10 mile race. I had never run that far before. I trained pretty well for it with lots of 3 and 5 mile runs. I did one 7 miler which hurt my legs.

So when race day came, I was pretty nervous. Could I finish? My goal was to finish without stopping. I did that! And I surprised myself. I ran 9 minute miles. Not rock star by any means, but a minute faster than I thought possible. What is possible? How often do I let my mind decide and get in the way of reality? The race has really woken me up to going further than I think is possible. I am grateful.

Here is a portrait I took of one of my artist neighbors. His name is David Plumb and he makes amazing paintings of flowers.