War Stories: Managing a Photo Shoot on Location

• Bucking bales of hay into a lodge as props.
• Driving half a mile up the road for doughnuts.
• Rewaxing the hardwood floor where the stylist’s steamer had whitened a 10-inch square patch in a museum.
• Directing downtown traffic around a photographer who was standing in the middle of an intersection to shoot.
• Sorting out 50 very expensive ballpoint pens that had gotten separated from their boxes in a complex shooting session.
• Locking a rich woman’s small, white dog in the bathroom to stop it from biting the toes of the crew members who were walking around barefoot to avoid making heel marks on the pure white rug.