Kira Beth, Shrinking Towel

Moms are funny.
My mom is getting on in years, and when it comes to her buying me a present (for a birthday, for example), we have a bit of trouble. She doesn't get around much anymore. So, present time goes something like this:

"Son, what do you want for your birthday?"
"I don't know, Mom. You know..."
"No, what do you want?"
"Okay, I could use some good quality bath towels."
"Okay, buy yourself some & I'll send you a check."

Now I'm pretty comfortable financially, and if there's something I want, I can go out & buy it myself. And if I buy it myself, I don't need my mother to reimburse me.

I mention this to her -- all I need is some new bath towels. I kinda want her expertise in thing domestic to pick them out. So, begrudgingly, she mentions that she has some that she never used. I said, fine -- ship them to me. She does.

But she doesn't just send me bath towels -- she sends me a whole set: bath towels, hand towels, wash cloths, even bath mats. All I needed & wanted were the bath towels.

So, Kira helps me use the other stuff.

For what it's worth, the bath towels were lovely -- there's nothing like brand new, thick terrycloth towels. The bath mat (seen here) is soft. (My bathroom has beautiful stone tile floors -- they are non-skid & too pretty to cover up with a bath mat).

Eventually, I have Kira toss them around.

Did you notice that the towel "shrunk"?

I originally thought I'd post just a few images, perhaps in an animated GIF, showing the towel actually shrinking. But I didn't find a suitable set.

I do like this soft, soft lighting, especially when Kira tilts her head like this. Note the lighting on her face in most of the images on this page, when she isn't tilting her head -- that light isn't quite as attractive. Kira is standing, and the light should be positioned higher, but the soft box is so large that the ceiling prevents the appropriate positioning of the soft box.

Kira & I make a lot of exposures of her tossing the towels. There's no telling where the towels will fly, and my reflexes aren't great. So we make a lot of exposures of the towels in the air.

Because the towel tossing was so unpredictable, this segment took longer than expected. I had thought about inviting Kira into my shower, but instead, we tried working with my new boom arm.

Above Lit

The Shrinking Towel