Nasty Lines

Jadyne and I joined this “single file line” to get our passports stamped so we could sail from Brindisi, Italy, to Piraeus, Greece. You can make your lines work a whole lot more efficiently than this if you...(1) let thirty or so couples make “appointments” by signing up in half-hour increments, and (2) set your background up in such a way that people in line can’t see and distract the couple you’re photographing. Or throw M & M’s at them. Which happened to us at Santa Rosa HS’s Homecoming.

We were comfortable shooting about 60-70 couples an hour. One person posed (my trusted assistant, Alan Bartl), one person accepted orders, checks, and cash (Jadyne), and one person lazed by the RB67 with its long roll back, smiled at the couples after Alan had posed them, counted to three, then repeated the operation about seventy times an hour.