On Friday August 19th Margarit and I traveled to southern Alberta. Our friends Chris and Connie were doing a photo shoot and asked us to take part. Knitted Knockers is a Cancer Charity that does just that... knits fake boobs for ladies who have had breast cancer and mastectomies. They were really supportive of Connie when she went through the ordeal a few years ago. Chris and Connie wanted to give back by doing this photo shoot for them. I understand that the resulting photo is to be used in promoting the charity.
Basically they tried to replicate an old 1940's photo. That one showed a large group of military ladies posing beside a fight plane. The owner of a vintage World War Two era Spitfire was solicited to provide the aircraft. He also owns a private airstrip down near Strathmore, and graciously allowed us to shoot there. Then Connie solicited a whole bunch of her friends to take part, and dress up at Rosie the Riveter. In the end there were 12-1/2 Rosies... including little Ivy, Chris and Connie's grand daughter. There were a couple of digital photographers there doing most of the shooting and I just kind of tagged along. But I was able to get a couple of shots with my big view camera. As soon as that film has been developed I will be posting the results here.
No comments:
Post a Comment