My friend and incredibly talented photographer Rusty McDonald has a very exciting project to fund on IndieGoGo that will be ending in just a few days on October 19th.

Rusty is known for his incredible photography that blurs the line between photographs and fine-art. I’ve been lucky enough to model for him on two occasions.

I live in central Ohio, land of the Ohio State Buckeyes, pickup trucks with gun racks on the back, and rolling cornfields.  Of course there is more to us than that, but when I think of the most magical places on earth, central Ohio certainly isn’t immediately one to come to mind.  But despite our strip malls and Walmart stores, small-town streets laid out in a grid, we have a pretty large secret, and I tend to forget sometimes how powerful it is.

I was inspired by author Erin Morgenstern’s project on her blog, entitled Flax Golden, in which she takes a photograph by Carey Farrell and writes a short piece of creative writing inspired by it.  I thought it might be a fun experiment to take one of the photographs I’ve been involved in, and create a story based on each one.  After all, I say that my favorite kind of photography to be involved in is narrative or storytelling.  I might as well try to tell the story I see!