AC at the REDdy

Back on Tuesday, Sue required an avant-garde model for her 365 photo of the day. The prompt also included the concept of odd. While my dear blog readers would be forgiven to think that oddness is sufficient reason for choosing AC as a subject, that was not precisely Sue's reasoning.

No indeedy, what Sue thought was that if AC were to wear three red items while posing as an intrepid photographer he would satisfy both conditions — avant-garde and odd.

We headed to the nearest park — the one around the corner — with the odd, avant-garde AC strutting in his red hat, red coat, and red shoes.

AC posed as directed, beginning with several shots around the pond. Although Sue always takes scads of photos, let's leave it at this solitary shot for this part of the session.

She moved me to the little foot bridge for phase two.

I asked her to take a shot of me seeming to blow on my hot camera, as if to cool it off after much shooting.

I will take some credit for the next location which was by the tree in the background of the photo of me crouching over the rail. She actually didn't wish to make me walk over there through the mud with my new shoes. I persisted, and they did get a bit muddy, but only on the bottom — thank goodness.

With chest inflated with pride, I also claim to be the one who chose the setup for this nonchalant pose for the first photo by the tree. I guess Sue liked it to because she used it in the composite that she ended up posting.

I cropped this one. While she needed to include the shoes for her prompt, I am not thus constricted.

Those were my choices from the probably three dozen photos that she took.

This ↓ is what Sue presented to her group. Her Photoshop Express app does multitudes of composites easily, so she uses this technique a lot. I hadn't seen this particular layout before, but I like it, including the red borders that Sue added.

It as a fun shoot in fairly nice, early-spring weather. The next day we were walloped by the awful ice storm that I posted about yesterday.