Monthly Featured Photographer - November 2016

Zoe off-road fun!

Still October, autumn has chimed in. Yeah, it was a great year with a lot of photos taken and our schedule isn’t yet completed. To our surprise, I succeeded to manage a very special outdoor shooting session for this season!! On our weekly organization meet at SF’s headquarter I told to the gals: “Let's go 4X4 and have some fun with a Suzuki Samurai!!” Mia - Zoe - Amy: “HEEH? 4X4? Is there a new resilient coming in soon and we’re a quadruple doll team?” Me: ”Don’t worry. A Suzuki Samurai is nothing other than an off road vehicle which is all wheel driven and that’s called an 4X4 and it belongs to one of my mates who thankfully offered me to do a shoot with one of you” Zoe was the selected lady to participate on this last outdoor shoot 2016 and she couldn’t await the new adventure trip.

So now we’re on the terrain at this cloudy Friday 14th, the equipment for this special session:

• A nervous doll who’s known to have no fear for any kind of things we do.
• A mud-splashed off road fun car.
• A mate who never met a doll like Zoe before (I warned him because this red-haired cheeky gal isn’t the bravest of my trio!!!)
• Photographic tools: a Nikon D750 with AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm f/4G ED VR lens, a Manfrotto MT190X3 tripod with 3-axis head.

As a good starter Zoe received a short introduction on how to NOT kill this Japanese machine but although I didn’t guaranteed to the owner that it will be in an operable condition after Zoe’s terrain escapades so we followed every maneuver very carefully (I didn’t mention that she’s not the most careful car driver from my team). Ready for the photo safari, we selected a nice spot and Zoe took a cool pose. Click Click Click, next place please….great fun seeing Zoe struggling with the gears. With the upcoming time Zoe’s hell ride became more and more bold until she stuck the Suzi on a steep bulge..(Smile & LOL). Yelling “Hey, what’s now” (with asking undertone) we told her that she can pull the car with the towing rope over this (damn) bulge but soon she realized the joke. Poor lil’ Zoe, exhausted and dirty, she wanted to stop riding and just do some posing on the Samurai’s body.

Three hours have gone and suddenly at an upcoming shower we decided to end this shooting session. Not to mention my cold fingers but Zoe knows how to warm them up again very shortly.

On a Friday midday in a rugged terrain somewhere in the woods....

-SF-