Little Red Corvette(s)...

Dave Uhde had warned me... his son was into cars.

He mentioned when he had talked to me a month ago that there may be a car or two to be photographed.

Or four.

Tuesday when the Tanner Uhde session was set to begin... around the corner off T-47 and onto Elm Street here in Montour came the parade of vehicles.

Ford Mustang

Chevy Monte Carlo SS

Vintage 1974 Corvette

New Corvette

The Uhde's, along with help from Tanner's grandparents, Dennis and Vicki Walker from Laurel quite literally took up nearly the entire length of a city block across from the studio with their muscle cars. Quite a sight to be sure!!! Everything was bright RED except for Tanner's SS... and I knew I could scratch off the first hour of the session to deal with car images alone... and I was right. ;-)

I decided to try to pull of a "Tanner-and-all-his-evil-twins" image with the requested tri-fecta of cars that included the SS and the two Vettes. Although it's Papa Dave's worst NIGHTMARE (as if ONE Tanner isn't enough), I thought the image turned out pretty cool.

There were a couple of other cool things about Tanner's session. He had Hawkeye gear... and with it being Cy-Hawk week... it's always good to buddy up with like-minded folks. Tanner's Grandpa is a Clone (see the ISU plates)... but I was told he also has tickets to Hawkeye games as well. Bandwagon jumper or just trying to make nice with his Iowa grad wife? You be the judge. Anyway... it was my duty as a card carrying member of the Jihadic Wing of Hawkeye Nation to get Tanner a Hawk collage.

In addition... after a few not-so-subtle mentions about the top 40 music that was on in the camera room. Tanner mentions that HE is more of a fan of 1980s music. Specifically... hair metal. Speak no more, young Tanner.... this photographer grew UP in the 80s... and so the XM radio was then dialed into channel 41 and "Hair Nation," for the rest of the session. It was then time to jam to Great White, Slaughter, Skid Row, and Cinderella among others and our senior could get in his comfort zone the rest of the way. Lord knows that Tanner didn't need anymore things to make him UNcomfortable, as the incessant razzing from his dad about his alleged "thong" he was wearing would be enough to make any senior guy feel a little off his game (or smile bigger than life).

Special thanks to the Walkers for the time and effort it took to get all the "toys" here for Tanner's day, I appreciated it.. and I'm sure Tanner did, too.