Some People I Know

Well, these are not just people I know. They are people I know very well in fact. I set up this portrait shoot for my beautiful niece and her handsome boyfriend. They wanted to have some head shots done. My studio is always in motion. Set up for shooting catalog photography of Christmas ornaments one day, people the next. So I usually get a person to sit in, so I can test my lighting out on a real person ahead of time. This time, my husband was around to be the victim, uh, I mean test subject.

This is John, my husband.

My niece, Christin (that's like Kristen, not Christine with and e), graduated from Columbia University last May. She studied film there. After that she spent some time working with a movie producer in NYC. Today she is a production assistant at WWE working on promos and such. Someday, I plan to be an extra in her first film project of her own (although she doesn't know this yet).

My niece Christin.

While there at Columbia, she met her sweet boyfriend Gio. Handsome isn't he? Gio is a man of many talents. He sings, writes songs, plays piano and guitar, the whole works (check him out in this link). Whenever he comes over to visit, he sings me a song. Isn't that nice?

Gio Alvarez, he's gonna be a star.