Lucky Willy

This post is the lesson of luck. I was lucky enough to have a friend that asked me to assist him on a editorial photo assignment. My payment for the shoot was access to a 1950's Chevy Bel Air, a 1930's Hudson, and this beautiful Roaring Twenty's Willys coupe. The deal was, help with the model shoot and I get to shoot the prop cars in between set ups. The shoot went as smooth as I've seen. We had a two lane highway blocked off for one shot that was a drag race scene. The whole time we were setting up, people we driving by in big trucks with quads and dirt bikes in the back headed to Sandy Valley. When the light and models were ready we set our cars and had two different fifteen segments free of traffic. It was weird since Murphy's Law insists on there being heavy traffic if you are shooting anywhere near a road. The smoothness of the shoot even continued when we did a shot in the middle of town. Over all it was a few hours of extremely good luck.

After I got home and started editing my images the bad luck monsoon arrived. Mona comes from the living room and says, " I think there's something wrong with the laptop...." I went to the living room to see my laptop doing it's impression of the guy from Alien that has the creature burst out of his stomach. It was loaded with spyware. I just shut it off and took out the battery. This made me upset that we were down a laptop but I wasn't that worried because I could still edit on my desktop. The next morning my desktop hung itself with my belt in the middle of the night. I don't know what I did to my machines to make them want to die. I always told them I loved them. All I can do is hope and pray that they make it to the big server room in the sky. So remember when you get that really good dose of good luck watch out for the bad luck lurking in the midtones to ruin your day.