Sam

This is Sam a good friend of my photo buddy Ethan. She came out from Brentwood and I met her at the bart station. I was so excited to go shoot in Livermore that day since I'd driven by so many times, drooling at the awesome downtown locations. I had been dying to shoot over there since I moved. So from bart we drove out to Livermore and it was a complete mad house downtown. It was wall to wall people and cars. They had blocked off the streets for some festival of some sort. Who knew? So...we made an honest effort, found a parking space forever away and did a few shots not in the location I was hoping for. But it worked out anyway. It forced me to drive around think outside the box. I found some locations I never would have found otherwise. Like the Alameda firehouse. We ended up in downtown Pleasanton.

Making do with a tiny patch of grass across from Safeway, thanks to that no good festival!


Stumbled upon the firehouse.


Probably wondering about this location. I confess...This was a hybrid of a different location (Brentwood) and a little mini park location across from Safeway. Throw "across from Safeway" on the end of anything and it makes it sound so glamorous.


Earlier in the day I picked up this chair. It's 90 years old and from Austria. I got it at a garage sale. He just gave it to me. I think he wanted to get rid of it. I actually didn't want it, but I turned around and he was stuffing it in my car..along with a parrot and two goldfish.




Sam has traveled to India through her church group, and India means a lot to her. This quilt is from India, so it's a little tie in to something that is important to who she is. And that's the only personal tie in I was able to pull off.


Under the hose drying shelf at the firehouse. I love high school seniors. They're on board anywhere you want to put them.