Recording The Light

One of my publicity photos of Rented Christmas was featured rather nicely in the North County Times, one of the largest local newspapers (~78,000 daily print circulation, ~635,000 monthly online visitors). They published a long list of theater offerings for the holidays, but the photo was one of only four pictures accompanying the article, and it was the one showing by default (the others are hidden behind thumbnails).

The next play of the Village Church Community Theater is rapidly approaching. “Rented Christmas” is the story of a single businessman (nowadays we’d call him a workaholic) who hasn’t had any family life for years. He walks past the sign of a rental shop that says “We Rent Anything”. So, he decides to rent a Christmas, with tree and presents, a wife and five children!

If you are in Southern California, come see the play performed the first weekend of December at the Village Church in Rancho Santa Fe (details here).

On Sunday, I shot some PR photos to go with news releases in the local papers. Below is a small selection. I am back from actor to photographer for this play, so you’ll be seeing more coverage of this production. I must say I was tempted to audition for this one, since it’s a musical and we do very few of those, but after having had leading roles in the last two plays, I really needed to take a break.

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I don’t much like air travel, but I had to fly to New Jersey for business for the past week. One advantage of cross country flights is that they afford me extra time for projects that I might otherwise not have gotten to. So, on this last trip, I made an animated slideshow of photos from the golden wedding anniversary surprise reception I blogged about before.

Click on the image below to go to my wedding slideshow page, and then select the last thumbnail from the play list. While you’re there, you might even want to watch some of the other wedding slideshows as well!