On one occasion, I had eaten dinner with one of the performers, and I had let her know that I had taken some pictures at the performance, and asked if she was interested in seeing them. (For all I knew, they get overloaded with other people offering up their pictures to them.)
As it turns out, they rarely get photos from their shows, as the photographers usually have other duties during the shows. She enthusiastically accepted my offer.
A day later, I gave her a CD of photos from the show, and she peppered me with "Thank You"s. Some days later, I ran into her again, and she told me that she loved the photos, and that she'd finally have something to send to her family at home in Australia.
Well, as things would happen to play out, the pictures made their way around to the other performers, and word got out that I was the one taking them. I decided that I would attend a few more shows, to hopefully get some more lucky pictures.
The most recent of shows that I attended was "Cinematastic!" which was a collection of musical movie themes. I attended both showings of the performance for that particular night, each time sitting in a different seat. The last show, I was lucky enough to have nearly front-row seats, just off to the side of center-stage.
Satisfied that I had enough decent pictures (I had taken nearly 8GB worth of photos, or nearly 1600 shots), I went back to my cabin and began compiling a collection of the best.
With my best selection whiddled down to 170 photos, I began making the first of 14 CDs that I would be passing on to the performers. 13 CDs and 2.5 hours later, I had the CDs packaged and ready to go.
I passed the stack of CDs onto Ian, one of the performers, who I had spoken to earlier about distributing the CDs.
The following day, I ended up talking with a handful of performers that I had never spoken to before. I was ashamed that I didn't even recognize all of them, despite the fact that they all instantly recognized me!
So, as they are LONG OVERDUE, here are the pictures that I took at one of the performances of "Cinematastic!"
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