Sometimes, life just throws you stuff!
I’ve just been finishing a job that came about in a French airport queue. Seriously!
Picture the dismal scene: end of holiday, bus-load upon bus-load upon bus-load of tired, achy, fed-up homeward-bound skiers and snowboarders descending from the French alps into the world’s smallest airport (at least, that’s how it seemed).
As two, completely independent queues of unwitting travellers wearily converged on the same check-in desk, I ended up shoulder-to-shoulder with a really friendly family of skiers (I’m a snowboarder, so we had to get over the initial impressions of course. Skiers, pah…) They turned out to be from the same area of the UK as us – and it turns out Claire runs Sacla UK (you know, they create themost amazing pesto and sauces – check them out here). Anyway, we sort of got chatting as the queues shoulder-barged and generally bumped toward the desk and we discovered we had some mutual friends – and that she had seen some of our images that she really liked.
Well, there’s no denying it’s always nice when people compliment your work but I didn’t really think much more of the conversation as the process of trying to get our family of tired travellers onto a plane with the least amount of aggravation somewhat took over.
Couple of months later, though, and Sacla got in touch asking if we’d photograph some images for their marketing/online material. Brilliant!
This has been a really interesting job to shoot as it does appear that people who produce Italian sauces are seriously nice people (though I’m not saying there’s a scientifically proven link you understand) and the marketing team are fantastic to work with. Strangely though, no-one protests when asked to balance items of vegetation on their heads…
Just goes to show, even skiers can be pretty cool (sometimes…)
(oh, and before any skiers out there complain, I’m the only snowboarder in our house – even the kids are on sticks of shame – and, as this is my blog, I feel I can somewhat redress the balance.)
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