18 July 2008 - 17:25Gene Simmons – Family Jewels – Airing July 27

Welcome to my Blog,  this is officially the fist of many entries of past and present photoshoots and the fun we’ve had doing them.

Well this was the end of our first day of shooting in the alpine of Whistler.  We hit some pretty interesting remote locations and it was definitely a huge learning curve bringing my camera gear into -5 weather.  James (pictured right) ended up having to warm the camera batteries under his armpit between shooting as the cold rapidly depleted them.   Gene was suprisingly in good spirits despite long cold days and a rather hectic shooting schedule.  I only needed to take part in a portion of that, and it still wore me down. . . most of it was ‘hurry up and wait’.

The film crew and support staff were pretty cool. . . a mix of LA and Whisler.  Here we are waiting for the rest of the film crew,  Gene Simmons and Jason Dussault.   Nothing like doing self portraits when your boredThe 2nd day of shooting turned out to be a mixed blessing,  sadly we missed a world record snowmobile jump by Chris Brown because the weather socked in . . . it was going to be 300′!!!!!!!   So the following day we hit another secret spot and were still able to witness some spectacular stunts.

Watch for this and more on the whistler family jewels episode apprearing July 27. . I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they were nice to me in editing. . cuz you never know!