On St Patricks Day Lovina and I decided to celebrate in the only way we know how. No not drinking Guinness, putting on our Kilt and combat boots and starting fights, although thats been known to happen. Nope, we grabbed a 2 of the 5 of beautiful designer gowns, GIVEN to us by Mustillo's Bridal Shop in Red Bank and traveled around our neck of the Jersey shore and make photographs of beautiful people in ugly places. We snatched our great friend the famous Mike of Michael Simons Videography Productions and a couple of hot broads (or two fantastic friends of ours Dana and Keisha) and actually filmed what happened. Well we don't have the film but we do have a really fun slideshow to show you . We are calling it "Trash the Benz " instead of trash the dress, beacuse we were driving in Mike's SL500 and well, you'll see. Thank God no one got hurt.
its long and there's a glitch but just keep watching its fun

just click a picture

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That slideshow was something else, man am I inspired, I want to go out and shoot right now! Great images and sequences!! Love that 2nd picture above!!

Thank you so much mike
its kind of our first go at this so c.c.s are welcome

Dude, great stuff, love the slide show! Next time give me a call, I want to come down and play too!

Really
we would love that
we actually own the gowns so we can do this anytime
we are bringing one to a.c. today and Lovina may trash it a little

Oh yeah, we have to get together and have some fun! I will call you guys soon so we can set a time to play!

poor car

yeah,
poor mike
he was not happy
it kind of put a damper on the day. couple of guinnesses laTER
good as new

hey check this out too
we feel famous
http://philadelphiatrash.blogspot.com/

That was great! How do you get a bridal shop to GIVE you gowns?!!!

they are very good friends of ours. They did my Mom's gowns in 1969, and they are right acroos the street from my studio so we see them often. Also these gowns are last seasons samples. They would need ALOT of work done to them for weddings but as we all know , trashing them, needs no work.

Ouch! My heart is breaking after seeing the car!

Great slideshow tho!

hey Katherine,
thanks for the compliment. Yeah $125000 SL500. Totally put a damper on the day. Mike kept on shooting though. Its like the wedding attitude man. The day must go on. Brides don't call in sick.

That was amazing! makes me want to upgradr my showit web. Really awesome! I have a crap load of wedding dress too. Great job!!!!!

You created that entire slideshow with showit web? It is so amazing!!!!

That was great!
The last time I did a shoot with my kids I almost got them killed. TRAAAAAIIIINNN!!!!
as I yelled to the six year old while I was shooting with my 70-200 around a curve.

WHAAATT?!?!

Her sister grabed her and threw her off the tracks just in time.
No lie, I am still haunted.
I lost my mother of the year award that day.
My children still dont trust me.(About train tracks anyway)
Trains? There aint no damn trains on these tracks this time of day. Trust me.


I was very wrong and although I may be joking about it, train tracks are very seductive, but deadly and decieving so be careful!!!!!

Great show!!

WOW
Thats sooo crazy.

I used to work at a photo lab and apparently in mexican folk lore if you sleep inbetween the tracks the snakes won't get you. We had many police departments as our accounts so you can only imagine some of the horrific images.
But me I say anything for a shot, if the model gets injured , well then hey man, she did it for her craft, right! LOL