Posted by Blanchard: 
My model was an hour late for the shoot yesterday. She was prompt in calling me every 10 minutes to let me know she would be at the location. She then shows up and apologizes for making me wait for her, and then presents a bottle of russian champaign to me as a peace offering!

I was never upset or mad to begin with and understood traffic and schedules can go the wrong way at times. I was stunned when she gave me the biggest hug in the world and the bottle.

With all the horror stories I read about late models or photo no-shows, i'm happy to report something good!

sounds like she either made herself even later by stopping to shop for the champaign or else she was already planning to try to get you tipsy and take advantage of you! (did it work?)

Posted by Sky Above: 
Wooo-hoooo...bet if you shoot her again...you just hope she's late!!

I know its hard to believe but there a lot of responsible, mature and  courteous models out here!  But bad events can sometime stick out more than the positive ones.

i think it goes both ways...some of us photographers have our senior moments too and are late or forget something.

Posted by Blanchard: 

Posted by Sky Above: 
Wooo-hoooo...bet if you shoot her again...you just hope she's late!!

I know its hard to believe but there a lot of responsible, mature and  courteous models out here!  But bad events can sometime stick out more than the positive ones.

i think it goes both ways...some of us photographers have our senior moments too and are late or forget something.

You know I have been very fortunate...I have only had one bad experience with a photographer...and he was just weird all around.  All of the others have been great and have turned into good friends as well.

Posted by Blanchard: 

Posted by Sky Above: 
Wooo-hoooo...bet if you shoot her again...you just hope she's late!!

I know its hard to believe but there a lot of responsible, mature and  courteous models out here!  But bad events can sometime stick out more than the positive ones.

i think it goes both ways...some of us photographers have our senior moments too and are late or forget something.

senior moments!!
They are my best times!! (:---

Posted by Hugh  Jorgen: 

Posted by Blanchard: 

Posted by Sky Above: 
Wooo-hoooo...bet if you shoot her again...you just hope she's late!!

I know its hard to believe but there a lot of responsible, mature and  courteous models out here!  But bad events can sometime stick out more than the positive ones.

i think it goes both ways...some of us photographers have our senior moments too and are late or forget something.

senior moments!!
They are my best times!! (:---

Does Dream narrate for you??

Posted by Brian Diaz: 
Russian champagne?!?  How gauche!

Brian..that hurts..loll but then again..i only drink french..ill bring u a bottle

Posted by Larisa Burdeynaya: 

Posted by Brian Diaz: 
Russian champagne?!?  How gauche!

Brian..that hurts..loll but then again..i only drink french..ill bring u a bottle

I like Veuve Clicot

Funny story along these lines--toward the end of a 3 day shoot for a wedding gown designer, I thought it might be nice to end the day with a botle of Veuve, but I also thought it would be appropriate to ask the designer before I started feeding her models alcohol.  So I was on my way to ask her privately when she emerged from the kitchen with a bunch of champage flutes and TWO bottles of Veuve!

It's that kind of thing that keeps me in photography...

Posted by Brian Diaz: 

Posted by Larisa Burdeynaya: 

Posted by Brian Diaz: 
Russian champagne?!?  How gauche!

Brian..that hurts..loll but then again..i only drink french..ill bring u a bottle

I like Veuve Clicot

Funny story along these lines--toward the end of a 3 day shoot for a wedding gown designer, I thought it might be nice to end the day with a botle of Veuve, but I also thought it would be appropriate to ask the designer before I started feeding her models alcohol.  So I was on my way to ask her privately when she emerged from the kitchen with a bunch of champage flutes and TWO bottles of Veuve!

It's that kind of thing that keeps me in photography...

you got it dearest..oh btw..got another gown today

Posted by theda: 
Rusian champagne is an oxymoron. There ain't no such thing. The story is a lie!

you've never tasted Crimea semi-sweet sparkling wine from st. petersburg? very good russian champagne....

Posted by Blanchard: 

Posted by theda: 
Rusian champagne is an oxymoron. There ain't no such thing. The story is a lie!

you've never tasted Crimea semi-sweet sparkling wine from st. petersburg? very good russian champagne....

Except for the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée.  Although, in the US, "champagne" is legally a semi-generic term, so it can be used.

Posted by Blanchard: 

Posted by theda: 
Rusian champagne is an oxymoron. There ain't no such thing. The story is a lie!

you've never tasted Crimea semi-sweet sparkling wine from st. petersburg? very good russian champagne....

That's sparkling whine, not champagne.

Posted by theda: 

Posted by Blanchard: 

Posted by theda: 
Rusian champagne is an oxymoron. There ain't no such thing. The story is a lie!

you've never tasted Crimea semi-sweet sparkling wine from st. petersburg? very good russian champagne....

That's sparkling whine, not champagne. 

If you've spent time in Russia, like myself, you would know that "sparkling wine" is what is their champagne equivalint.

Posted by Blanchard: 
If you've spent time in Russia, like myself, you would know that "sparkling wine" is what is their champagne equivalint. 

I don't have to spend time in Russia to know what the actual definition of champage is. By the way, I have spent some time in Champage.

Posted by marksora: 
Even sparkling wine made in other regions of France cannot be called Champagne.

It is really the same thing though.

Not so fast, Perrier-Jouet breath...Although the grapes may be similar, it is the growing region's climate that gives Champagne unique distinction through special fermentation and bottling processes, thus true Champagne is wine distinct to that region, and that region only.

As the region tends to be cooler, the fermentation stopped in late fall as winter was approaching before the wine was ready, only to start again (refermentation) in the warming Spring. 

This created unique challenges to not only stop the fermentation in Spring, but bottling the product so the ensuing re-starting didn't blow out the corks.  And, if the corks were secured too tightly, blowing out the bottom of the bottle (which explains the wired corks and concave bottom found on Champagne bottles).

It was a blind Benedictine monk named, Dom Perignon, that spent a good portion of his life perfecting the process, including adding a dose of red wine to form Pink Champagne that helped in stopping the refermintation.

No truth to the rumor that the Champagne glass size was modeled after Josephine or Marie Antionette's breast size, however.

Drink Up!