Monday, September 25, 2006
Gubernatorial candidates Jim Davis & Daryl Smith
On monday afternoon I received one of those last minute phone calls. It was Jim Davis’ office explaining that his new runningmate would be in town for one afternoon and they needed headshots.
No Pressure or anything.
I’m a location photographer, studios are boring to me so I just packed up all my gear and headed to Tampa. After finding a big enough back room in the office which is an older commercial building in need of some TLC, we realized the only backdrop options were unfinished drywall.
“Ahem, cough”
A staffer found a smallish size State of Florida flag that was just barely big enough to work.
I got my lights setup and then found out what crazy hectic lives politicians really live. I had to wait for them to finish phone calls to DC and then I had about 3 minutes with each before Jim Davis had to fly off to DC right away and Daryl Jones had to go to So. FL right away.
Crazy, fast paced shoot but given the obstacles, we all made it work 
