What's Stopping You?

Dan Couto.

http://www.dancouto.com/

Interview:
http://www.studiolighting.net/e056-couto-lightsource-photography-podcast/

God damn, I want to be this guy when I grow up.

My spell check program has stopped acknowledging the existence of contractions. Every time I type an apostrophe, it complains. I am just saying.

So, I was going to tell you about Shenzhen, and though my time on the other side of the world already feels painfully far away, it's important to me that I document the rest of the trip.

I got up early and gave Thorn Chain a call, as we'd agreed that the first to wake should call the other. They were still in bed, and I spent a good long while online trying to hunt down that beautiful Shen Hao that I wanted. There was a phone number for a store in Shenzhen. I think I wrote about this part already. The number had a message in Cantonese in it. I went downstairs to the lobby and had the clerk on duty translate for me. He grinned apologetically and said, "It says this number is, how you say, not there. Not working. Gone."

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Why is it that every time I schedule two shoots in the same day, both models cancel on me? And people wonder why I so rarely use more than one model at a time.

Mistress Sophia was sick, and Unpaintable Canvas got a sudden attack of the Girly Self-Consciousness on the way over to my studio. It's just no good trying to explain to a woman that she doesn't need to shave her legs when I'm shooting abstracts. Nor does my camera particularly care if she does smell like onions.

Still, I'd been wanting time alone with UC away from the studio, so I didn't gripe too much. ( Read more... )