I decided to take Friday off work and enjoy a three day weekend.  Typically our intern doesn't work with us on Friday but we decided to get together anyway and do some shopping for costumes and such for our upcoming photography conference and the shoots we will be doing there. 

We started with some breakfast before hitting a few resale shops.  We found a few cool things to use and wound up in a vintage clothing store downtown.  Before leaving the area, we did a quick photo shoot.  It was pretty cold and windy so we just tried a new feature on my strobe that allows me to shoot up to 1/8000 in HSS mode.  This lets me shoot at a wide open aperture even in bright sunlight. 

After the quick shoot, we returned home and got out our new pink parachute to see how we would go about making it into a dress for our models.  With it being a 25 foot canopy, it's pretty big and will be pretty amazing to work with I think.

Our plan for the St. Louis conference is starting to come together.  On Monday morning of that week, we will be photographing 15+ models at the City Museum.  The location is pretty awesome and I'm looking forward to getting a lot of images there with all of the models and locations that can be used.  We also have some other tentative photo shoots in thew works.  One could possibly be a photo shoot with a vintage bi-plane at Creve Coeur airport and the other a shoot with some exotic vehicles (Lambo's, Ferrari's, etc.) at a location in West County.  Hopefully everything pans out. 

We'll be in St. Louis this Saturday for Monster Jam at the dome.  We may have a photo shoot n Sunday afternoon so will have to get right back that morning if that is the case.  Jayson turns three years old next week and this is his birthday present from us.  He really likes the monster trucks and I think seeing them live is going to really be a thrill for him.