Live the same

Photography is a difficult job because it is a job, it is working with people. When you are on group tours, there are usually a lot of people and everyone tries to behave decently. But during individual sessions, some people can behave unpredictably.

I once had a shoot with a couple - a young woman and a strange man, much older than her. They did not really want to talk to me. When we arrived at the beach, this strange guy pulled me aside, grabbed me by my clothes, as if trying to lift me up, and said something like: "If I talk to his girlfriend or even look at her the wrong way, he will bury me right here on the beach."

Who let an idiot into civilization, but what can you do. Of course, the shoot did not take place. My driver saw everything, called the company and called the police. We just left, and the company and the officer somehow dealt with the couple without us.

Oh, and oddly enough, I still got paid for this shoot 😂

After mentioning hurricane season, people started asking me a lot about it. I'm not a climatologist, but I’ll share what I know. While I was living in the Dominicana, every year, from mid September to mid or late October, there were always news reports about another hurricane heading our way. But, as far as I understood, the currents and winds around the island almost always turned hurricanes away at the very last moment, so they ended up passing by. Puerto Rico on the other hand, which is just 60 km away, wasn’t so lucky most of the time

Still, that’s not always the case. In 18, I went through two hurricanes back-to-back. For the first one, we decided to wait it out in the mountains - mistake. Bavaro wasn’t even in the hurricane zone, but the place we went to got hit though not too hard. We still had a pretty fun couple of days staying in cabañas (that’s a whole other story) with pouring rain and winds strong enough to knock you over
As for the second hurricane—I'll tell you about that tomorrow