“Man-ing” up
By nature, I am a bit shy and coy. Ok, that’s a lie. I am just a chicken when it comes to a spotlight in front of large audience. That’s the reason I got a zoom lens, so I don’t have to ask people for their photos, I just take them. I’m ok with being the creepy girl on the corner.
But at the Rag and Bone women’s show, I was challenged by my younger sister to go get a photo of Anna Wintour. You see, Julie does this for her job. She can talk to anybody, I mean anybody in a *finger snap* second if somebody asked her to. She also has this talent to make people do what she wants them to do…like that time she coaxed me into taking a photo of Anna Wintour…
So, I started to hyperventilate and my pits are starting to sweat. I try to come up with some kind of reason to run and hide from this monumental task. Julie gives me that look that says “this is a small price to pay for getting you into 20+ shows, so man up!”
So here I go, creeping around polls, outside the hallway, back to the bleachers where she is sitting. I purposely take the longest route possible to approach her. I know I am acting weird, probably like how Mr.Bean would have handled this situation.
I check on my camera. Memory card, check. Auto setting, Check. I can’t take a chance on manual with this one. I coil the camera around my wrist tight, get in the crouching tiger position and fire. Click, nothing. Click, click..NOTHING. My camera isn’t cooperating. I fumble. The whole time I have this vision of getting tackled by her enormous bodyguards and being escorted out…my face will be plastered all over the fashion world and I would never to be let into the shows ever again. I think Bee Shaffer senses this craziness and turns her head. I know I got one more chance. I lift my camera and shoot, this time it works.
I run back so fast I give myself whiplash as I am checking to see if people are coming after me. I think I am safe. Then look up to find my sister who has been observing the whole thing with a “what’s wrong with you?” face.
Mission accomplished. I just hope she doesn’t ask me to take a picture of anyone else.
Bee Shaffer(Anna's daughter), Anna Wintour, Marcus Weinright's Wife and Son
Check out much better pictures of Anna Wintour taken with the zoom lense,
Check out my fellow blogger “Man-ing” story here
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