Wow, what a whirlwind since June. I’ve barely had time to write anything but now that Coleman is wrapping up for a couple of months, I’m sure I’ll be better.  Unless I don’t have anything to write because I’m not doing anything. Nah, that won’t happen. 🙂

So, since I wrote last I’ve done probably 15 shoots with Coleman where I managed the casting, catering, some wardrobe and some location scouting. Through the entire process I made some great friends and formed some wonderful bonds. I’m sad it’s over for the time being but I look forward to when we start up again next year. Picture below is a typical demonstration of the lengths we had to go to, to get cell phone reception. We shot in some seriously bad-ass, out of the way locations. It was awesome. So cool.

In the meantime I am moving my producing skills to corporate team building activities.

I did my first corporate team building activity today where I was the facilitator and ran the show. Pretty much everything that could have gone wrong did. Luckily it was nothing I could control. And I’m happy to say I managed the problems and we made the best of it to the point I don’t think the client even knew. Our bike build for charity could have come to a screeching halt when I found out this morning that our bikes never shipped out. I ended up at Walmart buying $1,000 of kids bikes and jamming them all into my car and carting them over to the client. When the ipads stopped working during the trivia portion of the build, we managed to fake it. When all the bikes turned out to be girls’ bikes, we played that off. Even when we finished the bike build an hour before schedule, we filled the time with team building games and activities. It was horrifying, quite honestly, but it was fun and gave me confidence that I can handle this. That was worth the trouble and stress I went through to get through today. That part alone was worth it all.

Now is the time to start doing some fun shoots again. It’s been a lot of work lately and less play so I’m taking some time to travel a bit and then I’ll be starting some fun collaborations again. So that means new pictures in my port at some point. Yay!