Hey Mac from Montreal...need some input from you and anybody else that wants to chime in....

I got 3 motorcycles.
A Yamaha fj1200, a Yamaha fz1, and a Kawasaki 454ltd.

I'm thinking....(business is slow) about heading out to the garage to do some building....
Here's what I got in mind...
A sidecar for one of my bikes.
But not any side car..... needs to be good for an outdoor Photographer.
I want to be able to pull the side car apart and paddle it on water like a kayak, or pullit like a sled in winter over snow/ice/open water.

Here's my concept : the side car on the motorcycle is basically a flat platform. The side car body is basically a shorter, wider, squared off front and rear, kayak/canoe. Fiberglass over rigid foam bottom and sides, gortex and nylon over fiberglass ribs on top......

any advice on how I should design the thing to make it workable as a boat...

sekonic makes some fine meters also.
sheppard/polaris is very good for flash and good for ambient, easy to calibrate.
I use a polaris.
low light ..... not so hot, but I use it for studio work, accurate to 1/10 stop, and have tested it head to head with much more expensive meters.

used to have a canon g5. Loved it.
now I either have the slr or video camera. the video camera takes a fine 2mp still....

hey guys thank you all, sorry to those that missed it....
most of the elements do belong in context with a story... they are after all illustrations for the story
but
I feel each image has to be able to stand on it's own as well, artistically, and will keep all the comments in mind while doing this "assignment".
Thank you so much.

will post an image or two with an excerpt of Gerri's story, hopefully next week.

That cat wound up outside our house, earlier this year... he was homeless, cold and nearly starved to death.
he always has a sad face.
but he's healthy playful, and seems unseperable from our youngest boy.

Thank you guys! appreciate it!
will be taking it down later tonite....

Well, I can't give away her stories..but I got no probs sharing the photo detials.

I shot this using three lights (the room was a brightly lit kitchen...
Two lights with orange gels color, one not gelled.

main light gridded and barn doored, fill light bounced off the ceiling. the moon light was on a boom, pushed through the open window, aimed back inside (it appears blue due to the cameras white balance.

this one was shot jpeg, because it's just a test shot...

but I need to reshoot the boy with the same color lighing as the kitten, and the kitten tucked his tail under, and I'd prefer to have it hanging over the edge of the counter..

the moon was composited in over the studio light...
the painted on cavas effect is Required, as that's what Gerri wants.
also it's a dream.

8x10 cropped off the edges of the moon and sink..
a little room for a title on the top left and room for a paragraph along the bottom...

a digital composite, with a paint on canvas effect.
Gerri is needing illustrations for a short story she's writing for our son.
C&C welcome.

internet thing.
here's another:
link

business has been slow, lately...Igotz wayyyyy too much timze on my hands....lol!