I think this was sometime in 1998. I was assisting on a fashion shoot for a very talented photographer, and very cool guy, Philip Newton. We were in Napa and it really wasn’t work, if only because the people were so amazing to work with, from the models, AD’s, moho driver, and of course Philip himself. Lugging sandbags and c-stands up and down grape-vine covered hills is never toilsome when the people you’re doing it with, and for, are genuinely wonderful.
And did I mention we were doing it in Napa? We were able to secure some amazing locations, and some of the more enjoyable moments were spent walking these incredible properties looking for the setting for the next shot. It was on one of these walks that I noticed this scene and asked to borrow the Polaroid so I could take a snap of this tree.
