This is the engagement session where I really thought that we were going to end up in a horror movie plot.  It all started out innocently enough.  I can’t remember exactly what put the idea in my head, but I decided that I just absolutely had to throw glitter at a camp fire for a photo session.  Lisa and John loved the outdoors so it seemed like a great fit.  There would be fire light glinting off of glitter and it would be beautiful and amazing, right?  At some point I started fixating on this shot and started on a campaign to find a place to build a campfire.  As it turns out there is only one camp ground in all of Moore County that allows campfires.  I drove out there the day before our session to check it out and was greeted by a dwarf pony that I could just swear was a unicorn in disguise.  Then I met the folks that ran the campground.  I would like to say that they were really nice and helpful but that was not exactly how it went down.  At any rate I managed to get permission to come back the next night to use the campsite for our session.

When we arrived back the next day I found the women who runs the campground and she took us to our campsite, got us some wood for the fire (because you are forbidden to bring your own), and turned on the water.  Then she charged us $44 to use the camp site for an hour.  Nice.  She ambled off and we started our photos on the beach.  About the time we were getting ready to move back to the campgrounds we started hearing strange calls.  I don’t want to stereotype here, but it sounded like in the movies when the Indians made their war calls before the rode out to kill cowboys.  I had a feeling that we were the cowboys in this scenario.  It was a little creepy.  And then we started hearing gun fire.  I told myself that it was from the Moore County range.  At 7pm.  On a Sunday.

Once it started getting dark I was fairly certain that the scene would descend into deliverance very quickly, but thankfully we made it out in one piece.  We also discovered the best smore recipie ever.  Instead of using normal Hershey’s I found us carmel filled chocolate and it was amazing.  I ended up eating nothing but smores for dinner.  Lisa and John were such good sports and I can’t wait for their wedding next month.  Enjoy!