Intermission with Behind the Scenes

I'm calling a short time out from Baron and Naomi's story.  I've been very busy the past three months shooting scenes for their story, but have hit a temporary road block. I was shooting the various scenes in no particular order, pretty much as I was inspired to do them, and so far the photos from over fifty individual photo shoots have been posted. However, even though I'd already photographed around half of the remaining scenes to their story, there was one really big scene that was hanging over my head for weeks - Lawrence's coronation. How in the world to do that justice?  I finally came up with an idea, and addressed it yesterday. It took me the entire day, and now there's dozens of photos to process. So I'm calling a short intermission so I can catch up.

​I thought this might also be the perfect time to share some of the Behind the Scenes shots from the story so far.

Miho Finds Baby Baron

When I was shooting the scene with Miho discovering baby Baron in the 'ruins' of his destroyed home, I used our crumbling brick fireplace. The interior, not used in years, was a total mess, with crumbling burnt bricks, and plenty of debris.... the perfect setting.....

So I put a bench in front for Miho to stand on, hid her stand with some driftwood and stones, and placed the chest with the baby in the 'wreckage'.....

Picking Flowers

I had already taken a photo of Baron as a little boy picking flowers in his Mother's garden....

But I wanted something better, where it looked more like he was IN the flowers. I didn't feel like setting up the 'palace garden' on the patio table again, so thought of another way.  I used an old wooden stepladder, placed it in the middle of the back lawn, put a pot of million bells on top, and posed Eric (little Baron) in it - with the help of one of my 'poke-in-the- ground' wire supports...

Then I took the photo so that my garden was in the background....

Boys with Horses

It was a very hot day when we went down to the lake early one morning for some photos of young Baron and Lawrence with their horses. Once I'm down on the ground, I need Jan to make any fine adjustments. And while I'm waiting, I'll sometimes take a photo.....

One of the final photos, with the tower removed in the background .....

Leaving the lake, I thought the grove of trees outside the water treatment plant would make a decent 'shady wooded meadow', so we parked and I set up there under one of the trees.  Since I was down flat on the ground, I needed Jan to adjust the horses a bit....