Yes, I have returned! I survived the photo shoot, and believe me, they got a lot of close-ups.
Actually, for anyone who knows me well, this whole shoot would make them laugh. Fortunately for me, they needed an old coot for this ad, so the casting was perfect.
So, at 6:01 in the morning, I arrived on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle. The Wardrobe Woman had asked me to dress appropriately as an older retired gentleman (coot) going fishing on a lake. I wore the type of clothes she had mentioned, but she immediately picked out clothes from her wardrobe van that she preferred. Okay, so I preferred her choices, too.
So after getting re-dressed, meeting all of the crew and the photograher; at 6:35 a.m, I climbed into a rowboat and began rowing around Lake Washington. Oh. did I mention that before I climbed in to the rowboat, they were nice enough to scrape and wash the ice out of the boat? Yes, it was a chilly 32 degrees this morning.
Now the idea of me fishing is amusing. I prefer to eat them than catch them. But the idea of me in a rowboat rowing around the lake in the pre-dawn morning is something that I am sure my sister would pay big bucks to see.