Photoset for a fan

 Back at the beginning of April I received a brief email from a fan asking if we'd be interested in doing a 100 pic photoset for him and at what cost. I asked Frenchie what she thought of this and her response was "Yeah let's do it!" So I responded we would do it and after giving him the price, he inquired about upping the ante to 200 pics. 200? Seemed like a lot but heck yeah we can do it!

So after nailing down some more details, we set about doing the shoot. It took several nights to get the first set of 100 done. The realization of just how many pics it really was dawned on us in this time. If we had had a photographer helping, I suspect it would have been faster but we don't know anyone local who could and would be willing to do it for us. Just getting us on the mats in good energy and time was hard enough, never mind trying to schedule in someone else's time late at night.

We sent those first photos off, he was pleased and we started into the rest. Somewhere in the midst of this he went away on vacation so it was a little while before we heard back again.

While we were waiting to hear from him, we had spent time doing new shots and I realized that we had forgotten to include an important piece of attire! D'Oh! So, we had to start the second set again.

 With our family life being what it is, it took us a while to find the energy and time to get it done. Lucky for us, he was very patient and forgiving for us to get it done as soon as we could.

So as of last night, I finished cropping and resizing the last pics and sent them along in email.

Lessons learned in this:
1) Wrestling with your spouse and getting paid for it is as great as it sounds.
2) 200 photos is a LOT of photos.
3) It takes a LOT of time to process 200 photos, even if it is just a simple crop/resize/save. Having a photographer there to compose every shot perfectly would eliminate this but would also introduce many complications to our activity.
3) We don't have the time and energy to make a business of doing custom shoots of this nature on any kind of regular basis. We could never keep up with any demanding customers nor do we want to. We want to keep our wrestling fun so our business model would be to produce as much as we can when we can and put that up for sale, aside from just doing things as we have for years. That is, sharing a lot of what we do for free because I know how much I would have loved finding a website like ours when I first went looking that said to me and my girlfriend, "Yes, wrestling is fun to do together and you're not alone".

The shots I've sprinkled in this blog are some of the ones we had to put aside for lacking the requested attire so they are just our pics now. There are many more which I am saving for use in the new edition of the Mixed Wrestling Holds Gallery that I'm currently working on. If things go according to plan, it will be launched on June 1st.