Unfortunate ... but memorable

Last night the Costa's came over for dinner and to hang out because Jeremy had agreed to model for me for some iStockphoto shots. Kate was just going to watch TV and chat with Meeks. It was the first time I had had anyone model for me so I was a bit nervous about it all. I had planned out the "shoot" and had a running sheet of photos that I wanted to take and had set up the lounge area in our house as the "studio". All was going well, until Jeremy who was sitting on the window sill leant back and managed to crack the glass of the front window with his back side. Huge shards of glass rained down around him and miraculously he didn't even get a scratch. It really was a lucky thing. Some of the shards of glass on the ground outside the window were a foot long and weighed quite a bit. I imagine if one of them had hit him we would have been racing off to hospital rather than searching on the internet for 24 Hour glass replacement. Of course the rest of the shoot was called off!

O'Brien couldn't fix the glass straight away because they were too busy and another company couldn't do it straight away because the glass pane was too big for what they had on the trucks at that time, so we boarded it up with a sheet of ply that the council had left outside Kate and Jeremy's place (don't tell anyone!). This afternoon O'Brien came out and fixed the glass and all is good again. What's more Jeremy has agreed to come back for a second helping tonight to finish the shoot. I've promised not to make him go near any more glass!

Mitchy slept through the whole thing. What a good boy!

The irony of Jeremy breaking a pane of glass with his backside while we were watching The Biggest Loser Finale was not lost on anyone :)

Along with the police visit after shooting the Shell Refinery at Clyde, I'm building a collection of unfortunate but memorable photography related incidents.