
Saturday Willy and I met Mark over at Frank's studio to shoot some images for
Sam Rey, their new music project.
Damian, another photographer friend of the family was there as well. Frank and Damian have worked as photographers in Houston for a long while and their work is amazing.
When I was in high school and used to pour over this free weekly called
Public News for interesting things in Houston my sister Patti and I would talk about how cool the
Texas Junk ads were. I learned years later that was Frank - my future father-in-law. How small world is that. A young Willy was in some of those pictures.
It was interesting watching Damian and Frank work. They really knew their way around lighting - often the thing that makes pictures their best. They would manipulate it over and over until it was just right. And some of the images they ended up with were really gorgeous.

Another great thing about Frank's studio: it's a circus of curiosities. I never tire of looking at the things he's collected. And I always find something new I never saw there before. I've been visiting this studio on and off for 15 years now and it never fails to be interesting.
The camera above is a perfect example. This was a nice Cannon camera of Franks that was in their beach house when it burned down.
Another favorite is in the bathroom. It's a collection of polaroids and at the bottom it says: 61 lies about 63 people.

A young Willy is in one of the polaroids:

And his little sister Emily:

And a bunch of other curious looking people:



Remember earlier when I said I always see something new? Well this time it was the hairbrush holder in the bathroom:

Note the scrunchy on there. And the squished dried frogs.
A few other details:


Gorgeous old clocks:


An interesting day.