well, things sure have come along in the last two weeks.  the side project to spurn marketing, Romantic Travel Association of Belize sure has turned into its own… lifeforce.

I am going to be in Vegas in two weeks.  The suits are in production, we’ve had a ton of issues, problems, freak out moments…  but 36 suits, consisting of string bikinis and halter top bikinis are in actual production with a delivery date.

Where their being delivered to i havent quite figured out.  Hopefully, the stars will align, i will find myself a tourist whose arrival date is somewhere before March 5th  (ruthie…you listening?  maybe just for a week   would do wonders for ya both).  But somehow,  it will just work itself out.  Someone on the message board or facebook will be able to help me

i realized today that i missed one of my own deadlines.  I just dont do that.  But this time i did.  i have to get marketing materials to vegas, for vegas, and i havent made them yet.  We dont have any suits to shoot, and i’d hoped to have some done by now.  But we dont.  So, we are gonna “wing” it.  We have the sample suit the new workroom made for us, we have the most incredible jewelry in the world, and stellar technology.  we are gonna do a photo shoot at the Casa De Lockharts tonight.

OH SH*%!  um…ok…what do i want?  taking a good photo of the suits is HARD.  I know, we did this with jenn, and she was a stellar photog with stellar equipment.  And well, we arent.  Having said that, the two pictures that we’ve used for all our advertising we shots i had in my head for ages…so, i just need to get a photo in my head…what story do i want to tell?

Luna the Wonder Puppy enjoys getting out of the yard, and its a beautiful day.  I knew i needed to “be creative”.  I chatted with alaina a bit, and then i started to get the ‘image’ in my head.

we walked the few hundred or so paces to the beach, and  i put my feet in the water.  Luna played a bit.  She got bored of watching me sit on jetty, and sat in the shade.  Since she didnt want to play, i didnt want to go back to the house, a compromise was in order.  So for the first time since i moved here, i sat in a lounge chair under  a palm tree.  Luna was happy as a lark.

Then i looked up.  I thought to myself, how cool it would be if i had a good camera.  one where i could change the focus to a finite degree..which layer of leaves would i focus on? what would become blurry.  I just phocused on a photo…i dunno why.

As i lay there entertaining myself with my eyes, i shifted my thought to the image in needed to create tonight through alaina’s camera lens.  What do i know of her house, her light fixtures, the jewelry she was using, and the props i pictured using.  The story itself came into focus…pretty damn cool.

Maybe tonight i’ll post a picture of the progress