Portraits – Page 74 – Otis & James Photography

Andy & Charity!

Our day of a million shoots (actually, it wasn’t a million – I’m not going to get all ‘Million Little Pieces‘ on you and continue my falsifications, as I’m afraid of the Oprah – and as long as we’re truthing it up…my name isn’t Otis…and I’m really a cook/diswasher/barfly…and I’m a long way from 4601 28th Ave SW, MPLS…and I have no idea what I’m doing here.)

Uh……moving on, our day continued with a visit from Old Friends (and I have no idea why I capitalized that, and I’m sure that I’m going to get a telephone call from James as she loves to be the first one that points our any sort of grammar errors that occur – not that I’m bitter about this) Andy & Charity!!

Working with these two is like this equation: w(crazy fun) – w = crazy fun.

w= work

ed.

It has been pointed out to me that this equation is hogwash. According to Andrew from Minot, the actual equation should be:

(W(Crazy Fun))/W=Crazy Fun or (1/w)(w(Crazy Fun)=Crazy Fun

Well played, Andrew. Well played.

You see, working with these two is not work, it is just crazy fun! You see, not only am I really a cook, I’m also really not what you could call a ‘math genius’, or for that matter, I’m not even a ‘understander of math.’ These shortcomings aside, we had a great time with these old friends, and as usual, they were totally and completely awesome!

We want to thank this super-duo for helping us close out our day in such a great way – and for the rest of you out there in blog world, good night and – Enjoy!

Benjamin!

Our Saturday continued with a visit from a totally awesome young man by the name of Benjamin, accompanied by special guests Grandman & Grandpa!

Sometimes there are a few tears and screams when the children come to the O&J Funcenter (and with a name like the Funcenter, this seems strange), mostly the children are scared of Jamie. She’s scarrey (the spelling of that word, or rather the misspelling goes out to a paper core/pencil holder at RPL DS – keep up the fine work, paper core.)

Alright, back to the post – well, there was not an ounce of trepidition from this totally awesome young man. In fact, he was totally and completely awesome to work with, as were his entourage! We want to thank this lovely group for coming down and for brightening up the studio, and would now like to show some sample snaps from the day – Enjoy!

The Family Bailey!

We closed out our Friday with a visit from the Family Bailey, for some good ol’ fashioned Family Portraits!

I will tell you the straight story – this was not a group that was new to the whole ‘photo studio- thing. Oh no, they were pros. They had been witness to many a photographer before, and it totally showed. The self-posing family is every photographer’s dream, and we were lucky enough to have them take time to visit us this fine evening, and give us this gift.

We truly had a great time with this great looking bunch, and thank them for taking time to visit us here at the O&J Funcenter. Well, enough of all this jibba jabba, let’s move on to some highlights from the shoot – Enjoy!

Elisabeth & Cody!

In case we thought our day yesterday couldn’t get any better, it did – as we had the great pleasure of welcoming back to the studio our old friend Elisabeth, and with her was new friend Cody!

We knew that Elisabeth was going to be a total and complete rock star to work with, and she must have been working behind the scenes with Cody to bring him up to her level – because he totally rocked it up too! It was what we in the photo-biz like to refer to as a ‘perfect-sitch’, or – again for all of you squares out there – the perfect situation (and what’s up with all those squares?)

It was bananas around here, and we all had a blast (or at least I did, and that’s all that really matters) – I kid – we all had a blast! We want to give mad mad props (is that what you kids are calling it now – the mad props?) to this awesome couple for totally being sweetly sweets to work with, and to the rest of you – Enjoy!

Ben & Kristin!

I’m not much of a morning person. Never have been, and this fact can be verified by many many people, most notably my parents. I’m more of a night-life sort of person, and many of you out in blogville may have noticed this as more often than not the time of day that posting occures is usually late late in the evening; tonight being no exception.

Even though I’m not one for this early part of the day, I could think of no better way to start our morning than with a visit from the absolutely lovely duo of Ben & Kristin! Any cobwebs that may have been floating around my head quickly vanished as this wonderful couple lit up the studio for some super-duper Valentine portraits!

We would like to thank Ben & Kristin for taking time to come down and visit us today, and would now like to offer up some sample snaps from our time together – Enjoy!

Dan & Lindsey!

Our day on Saturday came to a thrilling conclusion with a visit from new friends of Otis & James, Dan & Lindsey! Technically, I think that James already knew Dan, and Lindsey is related to one of the Otis & James original clients (you know who you are!)

This fun-loving couple came down the the superstudio and made it their own. They rocked, they rolled, and one of the members of this duo could even match the Otis level of U2 dedication (you know who you are too – I think that there may be a double pun in there.) We want to thank this lovely couple for coming down and giving us such a great end to the day – Enjoy!

The Ladies Harmon!

We could think of no better way to start our Saturday than with a visit from these lovely ladies! They were a dream to work with, and our time together was great! Now, to all of you out there in blog-land, these photographs are going to be a surprise for Dad’s Birthday – so if you happen to recognize any of these lovely ladies, don’t go blabbin’ to Dad that you saw their pics up on the site!! Mums the word!

I think I can trust all of you, so as a reward for keeping this between us, let’s look at some samples from the day – Enjoy!

Darrin & Virginia…Flying Through The Air With Skill and Ease.

This past Friday, our day came to a splendid close as the O&J Center for the Rythmically Inclined was paid a visit from our old friend Virginia – and she brought along her special friend Darrin for some super-sweet-totally-rockin Valentine Portraits (even though the date has passed, the special runs all month – ‘The love lasts all month!’)! Seriously, I just make up punctuation rules as I see fit. I’m a trail blazer like that.

Moving on, we knew from our previous work with Virginia that she was a total photo rocker, but we found out that these photo rocking skills also carried over to significant others! Let me break that down for you – they both rocked! You know, it’s not just enough to talk about all these things and what not, let’s instead activate our eyeballs and move them a little lower to see some of the goods – Enjoy!

Brandi!

Yesterday morning our Otis & James Super Studio for the Photogenically Inclined was brightened up by the presence of our new friend (and highly photogenic) Brandi (and her lovely assistant, Mom!)

Brandi was totally awesome! She may have wanted to be taking the pictures instead, but me thinks the true talent lies in front of the lens – as she worked the camera like a rock star, pulling out poses with reckless abandon in a way thad made our work a dream, and we thank her for this.

Both Brandi and her lovely assistant couldn’t have been any easier to work with (thank you again!), and proof of this lies just a few more keystrokes away – Enjoy!

Scott & Linnzi

This past Sunday (I know I’m going out of order as far as the chronology of the posts go, but that’s how crazy I am…crazy) Otis & James Central took a break from its mini-vac (for those of you that don’t know what that means, you’ll have to look down a couple of posts to figure this slang out) for the occasion of taking some super-fantastic Sunday afternoon portraits of Scott & Linnzi (with a couple of special guests!)

This special Sunday was made all the better by the fact that the James part of the business wasn’t here…uh…that doesn’t sound that great – but the reason why it was all the better was that the part of James this day was being played by Otis, and playing Otis was Super-Britt! For those of you not familiar with all this role playing, let me break it down. James was somewhere on the East Coast – perhaps in an undisclosed location, and Otis was actually operating a camera (which for those of you that were wondering, he still knows how to do) and Super-Britt was doing what Otis normaly does – which is talks a lot and fiddles with the music while James does all the work.

OK, back to this lovely couple – they were awesome to work with! It was nice to see everyone all dolled up (especially you, Scott) and it was good to get Scott out from the front part of the building and in to the back part – because that’s where the action is!

We want to thank this lovely couple, and their super-awesome special guests (I’m talking to you, Leah & Autumn), for coming down and having fun with us on this Sunday afternoon. Well, I may have lost the majority of you at the second paragraph, but for those of you still reading – Enjoy!