November 2005 – Page 3 – Otis & James Photography

Andrea (mini post)

Day 92 of the quest to complete the portraits of Andrea came and passed today.
Keep the faith.
More to follow.

Much thanks to Andrea and faithful assistant (new O&J regular, Michael).

Otis Out

After an initial burst of photographs (which seems like it was about five moths ago), we in the world of Otis & James were finally able to complete our time with the ever-friendly Kelsey, and her lovely assistant (MoM* – you may remeber them from their previous post here.)

We had an absolutely glorious day to work with, and Kelsey too brought her A game, and we all just totally tore it up. We visited gravel pits, dried up creek beds which were no longer dried up, places with bad things painted on the walls, and finally in an old trailer. All in all, it was a morning filled with an eclectic group of places, but it was all held together by the lovely Kelsey.

We thank her and her assitant for making the trip to see us, and we will now dispense with all this non-sensical jibberish and move to the snappy-snaps – Enjoy!

*If you turn your monitor upside down it will instead say WoW – and this WoW will say MoM and so on, and so on, and so on)

JDee.

How did we conclude our day yesterday, you ask? We did it in the most perfect way, working with none other than the immaculate JDee! Poised, confident, and any other number of adjectives for ‘totally awesome’ is all we can say.

We thank JDee and her lovely assistant (Mom) for taking time from their day for us, and as a token of our thanks we offer these photographs of our time together – Enjoy!

Jacqueline!

Yesterday morning we were joined in the Otis & James nerve center by not only the lovely Jacqueline, but also her faithful assistant, Bentley (I don’t know what the story is, but over the past few days we’ve had nothing but really fancy dogs stopping by the studio of late – first Gucci, and now good ol’ Bents!) His friends call him Bents. I’m his friend.

They both came ready to tear it up in the studio and in the ootdoor land that surrounds our studio, and rock it up they both did. We had a great time working with this dynamic duo, and hope that they come by our place again, as they brought sunshine and rainbows with them!

Seeing as how I’ve used the word ‘rainbow’ in this post, I think that it has now become time for us to stop the jibber-jabber and get on with the goods. So – Enjoy!

Tyler, Indeed.

This evening we were paid a visit from hard-core Green Bay fan Tyler in the Otis & James super studio. We kept it short and sweet, and went straight to kick out the jams mode.

Tyler was happy to oblige our ‘short and sweet’ approach, and he did it in style! We thank him and his assistant (Mom) for making the trek to O&J, and as thanks we’d like to offer up some samples of our work together – Enjoy!

Macken…Mcke…Maken….McKinzey*!!

We had the great pleasure of working with McKinzey this evening! I’ll tell you what, McKinzey seriously had her stuff together. She tore it up mad style. She went crazy on us. Working with McKinzey was the best way for us to end the day!

We totally and completely had a great time working with her, as her total ease with a camera shone through all she did. We want to throw her mad props (see how hip I am by using modern street slang) for being such a gem, and for letting Otis try on so many different items of her clothing; and for letting James be near a sea of purses.

Well, if anybody out there can look at the following photographs and give us a heads up as to what the accurate spelling of Whitney’s name is – it would be greatly appreciated. So, enough crazed ranting, and on with the pics – Enjoy!

*Special thanks to Deb!

Heather!

After a week of non-photographic work, Otis & James returned to the land of Senior Portraits this morning when we were visited by our new friend Heather!! She, along with her entourage (Ma, Bro & Sis) made the trek down to the newly painted nerve center for some super-deluxe snappy snaps.

Heather totally tore it up in the studio – she turned on the inner model and we went along for the adventure! She was a true joy to work with, and we thank both her and her entourage for making the trip to see us. Well, I’ll quit all of my crazy talk and get on with the goods – Enjoy!

Lacy…Part II

This past Tuesday (again a day late, a dollar short), we were able to complete the shoot with our old friend, Lacy (you may remember her from this post)!!

I’ll tell you what, there is no way for a person to not have a great time working with Lacy, as her smile/laugh/all around sunny disposition makes any cloud go away! We thank her again for being a member of the Otis & James Family (we all wear matching Members Only jackets.) So Lacy, thank you and – Enjoy!

Finally, Ben!

One week ago (actually as I write this it’s like one week and a day, but who’s counting at this point), we at Otis & James had the great honor of working with our man, Ben!

You see, we thought that we would build up the suspense to a fever pitch in posting his snappy-snaps in the blog, and I think that we have achieved our mission. So I will waste not a minute more, and will now cut straight to the snaps (well, first I want to extend a big shout out to both Ben and his faithful and trusty assistant ((MOM)) for all of their hard work, and for the great time we had) – Enjoy!

Oh, and one more thing – let’s hear it for Ben in managing to fit not just one, but three cars in the studio. Skills. That’s all I have to say to that.

Skills.

And now – Enjoy!

Otis & James…Where Are You???!!!

Hello from the land of Otis & James!!! It’s been quiet on the blog of late, but rest assured my fellow bloggers – we have not been resting on our laurels (what does that mean?) We’ve been hard at work making our studio into a even more rocking place than it was before.

When we moved into the new studio, we really didn’t have much time to do everything that we wanted to, so we used this last week to make some really cool changes to our already super double cool space! Stay tuned for some photo’s of these changes (you would think that as photographers, we would already have some up – but that’s not how we roll) in the coming days. Special thanks to the family of Fat Al for all of their assistance during this week – we couldn’t have done it without both of you!

Alright, I’ll put up one pic now:

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This is the new and improved dressing room – just one of the new features we’ve been working on. For those of you that had used the old dressing room, you may notice some differences (like the unbelievable amount of red paint, which after many hours of being in the room with just a solitary light and no companionship caused ol’ Otis to feel like he was caught in an outtake of The Shining – but it was worth it.)

Stay tuned for more samples of our week of behind the scenes work to make a stronger, better, shinier Otis & James.

Thanks again, and much love to y’all –

Brit & Kev

Month: November 2005