Wednesday, April 25, 2007

OSP BBQ Showdown

What started out as a simple get together to work on a new computer, turned into a BBQ rib cook-off and a model shoot! A bunch of photographers from OSP came over for some good food, good company and a model shoot here in Santa Barbara.

Karen and Craig came up from Glendale and she brought with her some of the best pasta salad I've ever had, 5lbs of it and enough of her special pumpkin chiffon pie to feed a high school! We also cooked 6 racks of ribs! I'm not going to say that there was a winner because ALL of it was excellent!

My good friends Kashina and Andre volunteered to be our models and they were the best! We were super lucky because it had been raining for days except..... during our cook-out and model shoot! We put together shoots like this to learn, share info and basically have fun. We ran around Santa Barbara having the best time. Karen, Craig, Alvin (Raquel, wife and Vivian, the cutest little baby girl!), Carlo, Dia and myself chased them around like crazy paparazzi! At one point, we stopped in at a Starbucks to warm up with some coffee. You couldn't miss us shooting so everyone passing by wanted to get a look at the "famous" people we were shooting! It was hilarious. Everyone had a different story to tell. I know I told a couple people I was shooting for People magazine and then I told some others I was shooting for a new reality show! I told the truth most of the time but it was way too much fun to make stuff up!

Here's our massive BBQ layout!




Alvin and Raquel's little daughter Vivian was the cutest little thing.




Here are some pictures from the engagement session shoot with Kashina and Andre.

Poor Karen had many obstacles to overcome during her shoot as you can see in the picture below!





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