i'm in Nachitoches Louisiana for the festival of lights!!!
Disney performing artist Anna Margaret came and performed a few songs and did a meet and greet.. real cute but here's the real story...
ok so my dad does some engineering work for the city and he knows a lot of the city people, so we're invited to the party at the city's house on the river where everything is happnin' well this year Anna Margaret (who is from Lecompte Louisiana) is the grand marshal of the parade and a guest of the city so she came to the party. i only spoke to her in passing on the stairs there. the concert started at 2 so i went down to the stage about 20 minutes beforehand to rub elbows and bend the rules :) before she got there. at the merch table (run by her family) i talked to her grandmother and she's a real doll. i had with me my Pentax film camera so i got some shots from the side of the stage and then i slipped in the barricade gate and got some great (hopefully) close-up shots from the from of the stage! when she finished, after the carted her off, i asked one of the ladies that was part of her "crew" if they had a production photographer (which is something i would like to do so i wanted to talk to someone already in the business) and she said that she didn't think so but "that's her manager right there, he'd be the one to ask".... so i went up and said hi to her manager and music man and hes a very jovial man, great personality... anyway, he said that they didn't, Disney usually supplies one" but i don't really like them" lol and that "Anna likes to support people from Louisiana"... i'm telling you i almost popped out of my skin and volunteered :)
so he said to send Anna a message on facebook and tell her that i talked to him and he'd hook me up with a list of photographers!!!! i'm going over to her trailer (which is parked right across the street from my dads office) after the fireworks to talk to her and her manager!! maybe i can hook up with them sometime and do pictures :)
oo the fireworks started!!! brb
ok so i hung out at the meet and greet after the fireworks (poor dear was smiling for pictures and signing autographs for almost two hours
after the fireworks) and visited with her manager and her little brother Grant until she was finished. then her manager took me back to where she was at the table and said "this is the photographer i was telling you about" {i almost fell over... ANNA's
manager was talking about
ME lol} so she introduced herself, and i did the same, and she gave me her web information to get in touch with her to get in touch with her manager who is going to send me a list of production photographers!! how super exciting is that?!?!? so i got my feet in the door and i hope it goes somewhere!!!
Anna is so super sweet :) and even after going since 8 that morning she look utterly fabulous... natural beauty is special like that.
i also got some up close shots of the concert with my vintage Pentax... i hope they turn out!!
