During a recent trip to New York, I met and shot with KN, who makes her living as a traveling nurse. It was a win for my "shooting out of hotels" practice, and a solid loss for "coming up with creative poses & ideas on the fly." I could blame any number of factors, but I won't. I'll just have a better list next time of all the things I've thought of since.
I've since made my list, of course, but it was too late to help me in KN's case,and that's a shame because she was so cool, game, and forthcoming. Never stop learning, kids, and remember that you can never practice or prepare too much.
This has been a public service announcement from BRANDED.
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BRANDED: What prompted you to get it? Like, what was your…
KN: I was kind of, like, rebelling. Um, my – I’m the oldest of five. Um, being the…always the goody, the good child. I had broken up with a guy not too long before that. At the same time, I was turning…what was it, like, 26? I think I was turning 26 at the time. It was kind of like a birthday present to myself, is what it was. Um…somewhere in my 20s.
BRANDED: Mid 20s, that’ll work.
KN: Mid 20s. And, I don’t know, I kind of felt – my sister…I’ve got two younger sisters. The second oldest of the two had had already two tattoos, and she was getting a new one that summer. And then I’ve got a cousin who’s older, who’s around my age, and she’s the oldest, and she just got her belly pierced. So it all kind of – and we’re from a very Catholic, conservative family. My grandfather – if my grandpa knew if any of us had any type of body art, he would have probably keeled over.
BRANDED: Oh.
KN: So we kind of hid it from our parents.
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