Shootout In Mazatlán!

My dear friend, designer of a beautiful new clothing line, recently spent two days on a photo shoot for her new website.

Here are some of the players planning the photo shoot. But first, I have to tell you a few stories of the glitches prior to our arrival at this beautiful hotel.

One of the models and her husband stopped at a restaurant for breakfast before the shoot (he has low blood sugar and must eat when his body screams at him). The waiter said he could serve them but wanted to know what food they would order before they sat down. "Why would you ask us that?" the husband inquired.

"Why sir, it is early," the man replied. "I still need to run to the store to fetch the food that I will cook for you."

Ha! I just love this town! His story reminded me of the time I sat down to have lunch at an outdoor cafe. Soon after I ordered a beer, I noticed the waiter running across the road to purchase the beer at a small convenience store!

Next, when I arrived at the home where we were to gather, it was pure chaos. There were accessories spread all over the dining room table. I looked at the mess in amazement, and thought, "Right, all these are going to go home with the right owner."

Then I heard a cry. The bathroom door had been locked from the inside, no one could enter. "Ah ha!" the man with the low blood sugar cried. He found a butcher knife and used it the way one would use a credit card to break into a locked room. It worked! The joke in the room became how to pronounce the word, knife. Mind you, we were a multicultural group in the room. The Spanish speaking players were told how to pronounce the word in English. Then I heard it pronounced in English but with Spanish phonics. It came out as, Ka knee fay! Oh, what fun. If only we all spoke English with Spanish pronunciations... it would be so much easier to learn.

The man with the low blood sugar (he had forgone the hotel breakfast) then found some week old bread in the kitchen, and politely pretended to rave about it's flavor. Maybe his blood was happy so he confused it for his taste buds.

We were soon ready to make our way to the shoot, a beautiful hotel in the Golden Zone, situated on the shores of the Sea of Cortez. We were in business.

We were off and running now. Well, running, no. The humidity was so high, it was tough for anyone to smile.

Such devotion these great models showed in the extreme hot weather!

I mentioned two days of shooting. This shoot took place in the old part of town where the architecture screams of the old days when the Germans migrated here.

We were up in the hotel, and down in the Machado Square all morning, again in high heat and humidity.

This shot can be summed up with only a few words... PURE SATISFACTION.

Lots of planning for the logistics needed to take place. This kind of thing doesn't just happen.

Oh, what a beauty, and yes... I am referring to both the model and the sea.

I rather enjoyed watching the shoots, all three models were naturals. What a diverse group of ladies, all enriching the photos with their own personalities and showing off the dresses with such grace.