The plan was a beautiful shoot in one of Vancouver's jewels: Queen Elizabeth Park.
In the planning stages, I had thought that this would be a simple, easy to pull-off shoot. I had shot there before with model Shania Loos and it had gone without a hitch. But that shoot was on a miserable, wet, May morning and there was no-one else in the whole park.
Flash forward to a bright sunny morning in July and things had changed. By 8:00 am, the shoot time, park workers were everywhere, tending the flowers. Small packs of tiny, elderly, Asian ladies roam the trails. Nice, sweet ladies, I am sure, but probably not the type to look favorably upon an inked, post-apocalyptic uber-babe of a model like Maiwan posing nude.
A second, more minor, problem arose with a phone call from Maiwan about five minutes before the shoot was scheduled to begin: she was lost on Cambie Street. (Beautiful? Yup. Intelligent? Very. Terrific person? Absolutely. Great sense of direction? Not-so-much.) 'Just keep walking uphill and you'll eventually arrive' I tell her, and she does, and only about 10 minutes late.
In deference to the little-old-Asian ladies, and our desire not to get arrested, many of the shots we ended up with were clothed. Which is fine, because Maiwan looks good in or out of clothes, but we were able to find a few secluded corners of the part to shoot some nudes in.
Next time: the notorious Burrard Street Bridge shoot with Lani-Jean.
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