Rory's Photo Newsletter from March

Welcome to Adventures in Photography! Before I get down to business time, I must announce that I have been building up a blog for the last month. It is located at www.rorywhite.blogspot.com and will be the place where I will post these newsletters for a larger audience, my personal musings, and manifestos from my Copa bulletins. Please take a moment to add the RSS feed to your Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, or other start page. I will do my best to keep you intrigued. "Copa?" you ask. If you were unaware, I also govern a gospel cigar rock band called Copa where you can grab free tunes from our new album titled "The Copa Club" by becoming a fan (join the Copa Costa Nostra here). As part of the Copa Costa Nostra you will also receive the Gospel Cigar Newsletter which will keep you up to date on rare Copa shows and provide you with access to some of the best workout music ever. Now let's get together for two minutes of business time. I have had to sit on my hands to keep from writing about this adventure until the DVD was taped for Chonda's new routine "This Ain't Prettyville". It's a big month for the Pierce family as Chonda taped the "This Ain't Prettyville" routine at the historic Ryman Theater (available by clicking here), and her dapper husband David Pierce released his new book "Don't Let Me Go" (which is available by clicking here). Our last adventure with Chonda took us to a land of 200 lb disco balls (see the blog), and this adventure took us to a land of jukeboxes, water pumps, and neon lights. We traveled to a taxidermy and a backyard in historic Ashland City with the goal of creating an imaginary 'Prettyville' to compliment Chonda's recent comedy routine. The most difficult task of the day (refer to the lead image) required that we guard the camera from hungry pickup truck drivers as it stood innocently upon a tripod in the middle of the parking lot surrounded by yellow caution tape and orange cones during sunset. This allowed me to photograph the diner with a beautiful sunset sky and later mix in a wet reflective parking lot (accomplished by momentarily stealing the neighbor business's hose!) There was a problem in shooting both the sky and the wet parking lot at the same time, since the parking lot was full of cars during sundown. As soon as both the sunset and wet parking lot photos were captured, it was up to Chonda to step in and strike some poses, which made for a cheerful diner shot. For the yard photo, we were assisted by a retired man who had a very small yard that he spent his free time making into a quaint slice of Americana. It appears as an idyllic dreamscape that fit our "Prettyville" façade uniquely. Fellow comedy pros Zan Augderheide (www.zancomedy.com) and Leland Klassen (www.lelandklassen.com) stepped into the taxidermy with Chonda and served to create this juxtaposition of animal corpse heads with wholesome family comedy. They look menacing here. Hey, this ain't Prettyville! Thanks for reading! Rory

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