Well, this certainly conjures up grim connotations. This started out as an anti-smoking personal project…and I’ll get that one done eventually, but it just wasn’t working the way I’d hoped. I was having some physical effects issues in that, being a non-smoker, I bought a brand of cigarettes for the shoot that have white filters instead of the more common and iconic orange filters. A small detail, but one that wrecked the effect I was hoping to pull off. Ah well, at least some of my throw away shots as I was fine-tuning my lighting turned out alright.

Some info:
1/ This is not a real gun.
2/ The smoke was created by shoving an incense stick up the barrel
3/ That shell casing is a real 9mm shell with the slug photoshopped off. Incidentally, my great uncle made this shell during WWII while working in a munitions factory in England. I have a small box of other ammo he made during the same time.

This pic could be used for a “don’t play with guns” public service announcement for sure. Or, if you want to inject a little humour here, it could also be a “don’t play with my teenage daughter, or else…” PSA. Yeah, I like that one. I have some friends who might agree with THAT PSA right now…