Dan Kitchens
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Emily in the San Gabriels (Extras)
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Emily met me at my place in Los Angeles early in the morning and we got on the road by 8:30AM. By a bit after 9AM we were already in the snow, and by 9:45 we had found a good spot on a random road I pulled onto off the highway.
There was a little parking area a few hundred feet up the road with signs for a hiking trail,so I did some recon. I climbed up onto the trail, which was covered in fresh unbroken snow. It was amazing to see that environment, which is so mundane to me by now, and usually reminds me of drought, and heat, and tough conditions, turned into something idyllic by the previous day's snow. Since it was a weekday, no one was around, so I went back and got her and we walked about 5 minutes up the trail (which turned out to be a segment of the 2650 mile long Pacific Crest Trail) and found some places to shoot.
We started shooting just off the trail, and then she walked down the slope to a big tree for more shots, and then walked further down the slope to a rocky promentory covered in snow. There the weather went through some rapid changes - at first a blue sky appeared off in the distance, but then thicker clouds began moving in rapidly and the wind picked up. Emily was naked by then, so the wind was particularly harsh. We wrapped up and made our way back to the car for some tea to warm up her body. While we sipped tea and chatted, the next storm pushed in and it began to snow. We knew we had to get some shots in the snow, so made our way back out for another 40 minutes of shooting (including laying Emily down in the snow for some shots). I was just really impressed with how game and tough she was. She understood the ideas that "modeling isn't easy" and "suffering for your art" better than some supposedly "professional" models.
