You will all have to forgive me, but I have been short on words these last few months. More and more I am letting my photographs do the talking. Besides the amazing cuteness of these little boys, two other things inspired this shoot.
1. Grease 2
2. The giant Orange hot air balloon in the great park in Orange County
I think I may be the only one that was obsessed with Grease 2. Grease (the original) was fun and cute but I could have taken or left it. For me, it was all about Michael Carrington and Stephanie Zinone. I wanted to be Michelle Pfeiffer. I wanted a “Cool Rider”. I taped the movie off TV and watched it so many times that I wore out the vhs tape. To this day I can still quote every lyric from the soundtrack.
I have had this idea for a while. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE balloons. We live near a giant orange hot air balloon. You can see it from almost everywhere when it’s up in the sky. A giant balloon! I think the idea of going up in a hot air balloon is so romantic………yet I am terrified of heights! Therefore I decided to create a mini me version of the hot air balloon.
Hang on tight and don’t look straight down!
