An unusual job for LocationSpain this one… In fact it wasn’t strictly speaking LocationSpain, more just Bill and James working together on the job by chance. For various reasons it became clear that the job could not be done under the usual jurisdiction of LocationsSpain and would have to take place in the state of Georgia, USA. Bill was asked specifically to stay on the job as the producer, and because James has been good friends with David for a long time, he got asked to be David’s assistant. And so it transpired that the LocationsSpain team were headed off for Atlanta Georgia.

We were heading into Georgia with the idea that we were going to spend the better part of the week shooting outdoors virtually everyday…… During hurricane season. The view from the plane all the way from London to Atlanta was pretty much solely of cloud. However the hopes were high when we landed in glorious sunshine, and rightly as everything went better than planned for the first 2 days, and we put ourselves a day ahead of schedule. But that was when our luck ran out. Swirling above our heads were the clouds that were caught up in the outer band of a huge hurricane who’s centre was 400miles away (Hurricane Gustav). Which led to their being 2 days of torrential rain. This was the period when we were supposed to be shooting bees, and apparently bees are particularly bad tempered in the rain. Fortunately we got a break in the weather one evening (literally for just 2 hours), so we went off with our epinephrine (just incase the bees turned nasty). As it turned out, the bees were in an especially good mood, and we managed to get the shot just as the heavens opened once again.

This then gave us some time to capture the last shot, which as it turned out was time that we very much needed. But after several attempts we finally got what we wanted on the last morning. The hurricane gave us a spectacular sun rise and we packed our bas and caught the flight back to the UK happy with what we had achieved.

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