Last tuesday Jen and I, our good friend and local photographer Jeremy Maz, and other local photographer and new friend Ross Hagen, went to the Old Sugar Mill out in Clarksburg, to have some fun and just shoot with friends and not have any worries at all. Jen and I shot there last year for a wedding and it is a SWEET place to shoot by far one of the best venues to date. Donna, the venues Coordinater, is great to work with and was very generious to let us come and shoot for our personal project.
When we got up that day we knew it was going to rain, but not ALL DAY, but that didnt stop us from going. We were so excited for this because the areas that surround the property, let alone the buildings and structures, are amazing. The place is all brick, with grape vines across the street for acres and acres. The mill, if you can guess, was a old sugar mill back in 1934 and now is privately owned. They have for the last 7 years transformed some of the mill into a winery.Its trully a amazing.
Some of the great textures there and we found some random little old trikes sitting aroundin the old part of the mill.
So we started inside where they keep the wine barrels and the wine. Meet Brandon and Danielle, a super cool and cute couple that came out and were both fantastic.
Can we say Cute??? Yah we can.
Meet Breanna, who works with me at my day job. She is wanting to get into the acting biz and has such a great personality let alone has a KILLER eyes, and a natural beauty about her.
Umm yah Beautiful...........
So after we spent a little while inside the winery, it was time to really have some fun inside the old rundown mill. Everything was dirty, cracked, messy, broken, rusty, old, and just was AMAZING. Truely a playground for photographers.
The models changed outfits before we ventured out to the mill. This was so fun!!!!!!
Look at those eyes!!! Crazy Cool!!!
One of my favs of the day of Breanna!!
I had a opportunity to take brandon off for a bit by himself. He has a look about him that was so perfect for this venue.
Umm does he look like he belongs on the front cover of a mag??????? YES!!!!
As i was shooting Brandon, Jen was having fun with Danielle, and man did she rock these!!!
Probably one of my Favs Jen shot!!!! LOVE IT!!!
The mill had endless places to shoot all over.
Jen and flash..... dirty old bikes and junk............ a dirty messy smelly corner.......mix well.....and you get this.
Then I had some fun with with just using natural light from the windows. Kinda looks like something from SAW.
Jen took this shot. I was holding a reflector above her while it was pouring down rain outside. Love this shot.
and again Jen........................AMAZING!!!!
There are times when Jen or myslef will capture each other shooting each other while the other is shotting and we get in these ackward positions to get the right shot, and as you can see, Jeremy makes himself tri-pod like.
The light in the building was amazing and it was rainging outside.
We walked outside the mill to another building that was HUGE inside and filled with piles of old bricks. Again AMAZING!!!! Oh and there was a white owl that lived in the building. It was so cool.
Jen striking a pose!!!
Before we left we wanted to get a shot of Danielle in the vinyards but it was pouring, but she said "lets do it I'm down!" So we did it and it was so worth it!!
Us walking across the road.
Oh my my my my my................
So before we end this post, Jen was going to have to model for us as another couple was unable to make it, but thankfully Brandon & Danielle were able to come out at the last minute. But since she had come prepared, I decided to have her model for a bit before we left and heres a few I got of her.
Thriller comes to mind.
I lOVE THIS WOMAN!!!
Jeremy, Ross, Breanna, Brandon, Danielle, and Donna thank you all so much for coming out to have fun, letting us play at a terrific venue. We had so much fun!!!!
