No Pain, No Gain Unless it's A Migraine

I woke up on Sunday feeling kinda shitty. I was all scattered, and was having a tough time focusing. Luckily, I had nothing to really do until the evening time, so I could relax & take my time driving to Allentown.

I left Gregg's pretty early, since his movers were on their way, and headed for a Starbucks on Long Island. I needed a latte (duh) and I needed to check my emails, etc. I was there for about 45 minutes, and it was pretty uneventful ;) Then, it was off to Allentown for my shoot with Look Into My Lens!

I had shot with Brian twice before, but it had been some time, so I was pretty excited. Well, by the time I got there, I felt even worse than I did when I woke up. I realized that I had a full blown migraine. I used to suffer horribly from migraines. We're talking 1 a month for around 19 years. Two years ago, I was getting them more & more frequently, and I was also noticing that there were other triggers, so I did acupuncture for a while to help. It helped tremendously, and I haven't had one in over a year. Where this one came from, I'll never know :(

I got myself ready, Brian showed up, and we did the shoot. We ended up getting some great stuff, but we only shot for two hours instead of our usual three. Brian was still recovering from his birthday celebration over the weekend, and with me having a migraine, I don't think that either one of us were feeling it, which is unfortunate. Oh well, till next time, I suppose.....


Brian left, and I took a shower and went to bed. Again, I slept horribly, which really, really sucked because I had a 2 and a half hour drive to my next shoot, which was an all day shoot. Blech! I quickly got ready, gathered my things, drove thru Starbucks, and then drove to the middle of nowhere PA. This next shoot had excitement written all over it, and I was really looking forward to it, just wish I felt better.


My shoot that day was with Marcus J Ranum, and he owns and lives on this ah-mazing farm! Everything about it is just spectacular. Words cannot do this place justice, lol. His studio was even cooler, if you can believe it ;-) It was an old school, and he had done some pretty remarkable things with it. The pic below isn't really a good testament to it's awesomeness, I'm afraid.

I don't want to give away any details of our fabulous shoot, but the items below were used......

Also, thanks to some codeine, my headache finally subsided. We went to dinner after our shoot, and then I did some work on the internet while Marcus worked on his PC. The next day, I had a 4 hour drive to Philly for my final shoot of my trip with Redrum Collaboration.