Let me shoot your feet

I've been shooting for this wine conglomerate for a few years now.  French company, they have thirty American wine brands, they do spirits too.
His heart and hands are all over the company.  Never met the Head of it though until today.
He asked where I lived.
"Oakland.  Let me shoot your feet."

He didn't blink an eye.  For real.
"Here, let me get the sock just right for you."

Two exposures and he walks out the door.

His branding is way way off Napa's map.  Way.  Where everybody else is either trying to be staid as a funeral for a dignitary or 'Let us tie a bandana around your hippy dog', his brand is over the top flamboyancy glitz.  Gold leaf plexiglass table with videos of him playing, leopard skin covered turtle shell chrome ball stuffed white lovebirds.  And that's the staid stuff of the flamboyance.

Never been in this particular room before.  Very difficult moving photo stuff around without loud and easily broken things taking a nose dive to a level below.

This is after the bottle and the gift box is taken out of the shot.

The Decisive Moment

It's coming soon.

I'm going to admit, getting a perfect moment when everything Tetris' into place, I don't do well. I'm OK with that.  The above is, what, 30% there, maybe less.  But I'm thinking if it's something I want to do better, going to San Francisco's City Hall everyday would be like going to school for it.

People are getting married, hell, today maybe even people and a dog got married at City Hall.  Groups of self absorbed are getting married, it's a perfect school for Decisive Moment to be taught.  No one is paying attention to you and they move and bounce off of each other like Pong before the viewfinder.
So maybe I'll come back and get me some schooling.  But today I'm going to room 168 to watch Taylor and Nick check if all the information is true and correct and then sign.  I got there early of course and watched.  Cried some.

Waiting for #0243 to be called (behind the black line) and then to go to window 1 in room 168.

The clerk asked if all the information on the form was true and correct.  One maiden name threw me for real loop.  Like how could I forget how to spell the name of someone's mother and someone's wife.  We had to check the internet while standing at #1 in room 168.  No photos, videos allowed.
The dog came in with the hat guy, the two of them sat down along with a female person in 168 before a black robed judge and he looked like he married the three of them.

Pose is great, but I missed the rest of it.  Gotta get into that school.

Loved the clerk, she did her job beautifully with giving us just the right amount of time to decide if it were all true and correct.

Leaving after witnessing the signing.

See the short haired woman who is directly above the kid with the bowtie?  She had such a blessed face as I passed her.  It was her decisive moment.  You knew she knew it too.


The formalities were not.  Both came from work, the formalities become formal during their decisive moment coming oh so soon.

City Hall, San Francisco, California, September 5, 2018

Cried some biking to Bart, cried some now.  Decisive Moments can be a lifetime getting to them.


"So Rarely do we see another one
so close and so long"

Bill Callahan