"It's cold as $#%,or You gotta be ready.

The Sunshine State.....plenty of sunshine. It is reflecting off the frost on my windshield. All I have to say about it is thank God for "Global Warming" or it would really be cold. And no I am not typing this while driving. I saw the windshield when I went outside to get more firewood. The cold reminds me of a shot I took while on vacation last year with my sister's family. We were at Massenutten doing a little snowboarding, well my kids were snowboarding, I was still recovering from a traffic accident from the year before. (I bet that is a run-on sentence) I was taking some shots of them falling down a lot, I mean snowboarding, when up pops this beautiful Ice Princess. She looks right at me and BAM, I got the shot. I had full intentions of giving her a biz card and getting some info from her so I could email a copy of the image to her, maybe even send her an 8x10 glossy. I also wanted to ask her to sign a model release, but I didn't have one with me. I looked down at my LCD monitor, to see my prize, and when I looked back up, she was gone. Was she a Snow Ghost? I couldn't find her anywhere. It really didn't matter because my closest copy of a model release was back at the cabin. As a result, no model release was signed so I can't really use that shot for any commercial purpose. Did I learn anything from this? Not really, but you should. I still don't have a release with me half the time,but if you think you may want to use any shot you take of people for commercial stuff, keep model releases handy, and don't be affraid to use them.