The hardest part of unemployment is that pretty much every day is the same. I spent the day working on photos and talking to models with the occasional interruption of a phone call from a recruiter. In some ways its nice. I’m getting some good work done (insert gratuitous Maverick Tarot reference here) and getting the chance to work with some great people. But it does get kind of monotonous.
At the end of the day, despite many prospects, I still don’t have a job and I’m still not making money with photography yet.
One of the nice things that breaks it up and makes it bearable is the little reminders that despite the fact that I’m basically a bum, I really do get to live like a rockstar. At least compared to how I grew up. Not having money is nothing new. I grew up on welfare. But the difference is, when we lived in that Section 8 duplex on Crehore street we didn’t have a hottub. We didn’t have a pool table and we didn’t even have a private pool that we could go swimming in at night. Night swimming rules. Actually, I’m not a huge fan of swimming, but I just love the fact that I can do it whenever I want.
Once I install the fountain that spews champagne, the grotto full of playboy playmates, the nuclear power generator, the garage full of flying cars and the weather dominator, this bum thing won’t be bad at all.
great capture of nightswimming; I love the lighting on the water.
@MaradeNox: Thanks. My backyard light is actually burnt out. I need to fix that. This is actually just lit with the on camera flash.
Good luck, and be glad that God loves you. Things will get better and better still, until you’re a famous photographer.
So, let me see if I have this right. You’re hot tubbing with a hottie, doing photoshoots with hotties, not getting up for work everyday, AND you’re asking for sympathy?
Oh no. No sympathy for you.
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The hardest part of unemployment is that pretty much every day is the same.
I don’t know, weekends were still different for me. They just became "Where the hell did all these people come from, and why are they in my way?!" time.
And yes, night swimming is something exquisite, and entirely different from day swimming.
This is a difficult lighting situation, and you captured it pretty well. Steph’s face is a touch hot (yes, yes, very punny) but otherwise, it’s quite good.
Night swimming rocks. My friends and I used to break into a community pool, pull back the cover and swim in the middle of the night. We’d carefully put everything back before we left so we could keep breaking in and go swimming!
@dv2007 (Danielle & Vito): I don’t know if things will get better or not. We’ll see. And I don’t even need to be a famous photographer. I’d settle for being a viable one.
@Travelinjim: well, technically we were in the pool there. We haven’t used the hottub since friday. Just sayin’ is all.
@erikogan: yeah, I guess there is a bit of a difference with the weekends. Still, despite what I make it seem like here, my life tends to be rather uneventful. I work really hard to make it seem like I’m doing stuff in these writeups and I am, but really, its basically the same stuff every day. And yeah, all things considered I was pretty happy with the lighting. I don’t use flashes much. And in fact this was two days in a row that I did. I played with it a bit on test shots of steph but I wanted to make sure I hit both out skin tones. I guess if I practiced more it would have been better. And yeah, she is hot. 😉
@Kungfukitten: yeah, and I don’t even have to break in. It’s nice.
Hey! We weren’t on the dole forever ya know! It’s just that when I did start working we were still broke!!! 🙂 Well, not THAT broke, but we didn’t have hot tub/swimming pool/pool table! But we did get a house, with a yard! Give me some cred. here!
On the other hand. This shot is pretty sweet! You guys look good and that blue is looking quite inviting!
@lrayholly: well, yeah… eventually. Of course, as you pointed out, we were just as poor then, hence the losing of the house, and anyway, that was pretty much past my "formative years" too.
Glad you like the shot. And yeah, I actually take a lot of pride in the condition of the pool.
@chrismaverick: No, we weren’t just as poor then and didn’t hence lose the house. I was downsized out of my job & arranged for the house to go back to the bank… never foreclosed on. I wanted a clean break so I could go West – that’s why I could still buy a house out there. I think you may be "filling in the blanks" where you may not have all the info.
@lrayholly: actually, I did… I’m simplifying. I’d still call that losing the house. I guess that’s not really fair though. Anyway…. the point is… "we were broke and had no pool." 🙂
hey, didn’t your mom have a bad enough day yesterday without you "filling in the blanks"?! no matter what the situation you had a loving family and you’ve got all of that still…and a pool, hottub and pool table ;-P
as for sympathy…i’m with jim…pfffffffffft!
@pi c’s: I can’t believe we are competing over bad days now. 🙂
hahahahahahaha Truce! 😀
I don’t think we even had a Sprinkler! Ha!
@lrayholly: I think I had a squirt gun once.
Rock on, ya bum 😉 Cute shot. I’m jealous, I don’t have a pool.
@PhotoKat: come on over. The water is nice.
@erikogan: Thanks! Made my day :).
Nightswimming last night was made even better bc REM’s song was swimming through my head.
@beststephi: hey! I tell you that you’re hot all the time!