A Summer Photography Gig for Me!

While being a full time student, I wanted to find a little part time "gig" to help pay for groceries! I found a position within a local Photography company dealing with children and sports/dance.  It ended up being many more hours worked per week than I had bargained for! I ended up working almost every evening and full weekends - certainly not what I had expected - but I worked all the hours given to me and then some! If I was called in at the last minute, I gladly filled in.  I worked for bloody MINIMUM WAGE - now when you are used to earning at least twice that wage, it is an eye-opener! I can honestly say that the minimum wage job was more difficult than the better paying ones! I was driving all over - sometimes driving 1.5 hrs one way to London to work for only 3 hrs! I really worked my backside off! We would work in hot, full on sun days, no breaks at all for eight hours (on the weekends) and just devour water bottle after water bottle.  Occasionally the shoots were held inside dance studios and a few times inside beautiful Liuna Station for the high school Proms! There was set up and tear down and quite a bit goes into these shoots.  In the Prom settings, the prints would be given right away to the students.  I loved seeing the dresses that the girls wore.  I had my 15 yr old daughter assist me on one of the shoots, so that she could gain some customer service experience - she did really well.  Those were sweet little gigs. Since I loved Liuna Station gigs so much, I am attaching a few pics here of the fountain outside and the interiors - very art deco.  It was a seasonal job which ended in August.

 Trinity in the test shot before all the students started arriving!