Thursday, July 9, 2009

No time to flirt

I swear I have no time to log in...much less time to flirt when I do log in. There's potions to make, herbs to gather, and guild gossip to sift through on Azune, plus things to sell on my bank alt and leveling to do on my other alts.

Doesn't help that real life has sucked up most of my free time lately. Been building the photography side of our business, and that means getting more photos in our portfolio. Since our neighbors and friends have all come up with excuses why they can't sit still even for FREE portraits (vacations, work, needing to lose weight, want to shop for new clothes first, you name it), we've had to find other folks who'll sit still for us. Namely, models.

Thank god for the internet -- and for Model Mayhem, one of the many sites out there where you can network with models and other photographers and find people where you can either pay them or trade images for their time. We just had our 3rd paid model shoot, have another scheduled in two weeks, and have enough shots in our MM portfolio that we're starting to get interest from the folks who will sit for free in trade for a few images for their portfolio. At this rate we may just have enough of the nice PG-rated images we need for a couple of marketing pieces we're working on, plus we'll have some really rockin' non-PG images that we feel are art-worthy enough to hang on our walls.

You can see my shots of models (both clothed and nude) on MM at http://www.modelmayhem.com/1269594, and my husband's much larger portfolio is at http://www.modelmayhem.com/1221997 . (If you're not a member you won't see any of the ones rated M for mature, sorry.) I think we do good work -- and boy are we having fun. Sure, it means Azune has no time to flirt in Dalaran, but that's OK. Sometimes real life can be just as much fun as a video game.