filmmakers. And because Danes work to live, unlike here in America where we live to work instead, I had each and every weekend off to celebrate life to its fullest in the party-center-of-the-universe, Copenhagen! (Oh yeah.)

Everything has a shelf-life. For the first 16 or 17 years I was involved with the production of pictures I worked as a location scout and a location manager. Instead of looking for an opportunity to segue into the camera department and work towards one day becoming a cinematographer I just kept jumping from one teevee commercial to the next, occasionally landing a couple of days scouting for still photographers as well. Hey, I got to make wonderful pictures of intriguing places someone else paid for me to travel too. I got comfortable with the work. I know that many location managers have gone on to become producers. That would figure. There is much organizational skill involved and, especially with regards to commercials, LOTS of last minute – I mean last minute – changes! If you can land on your feet more often than not then why not look at producing? But as much 'fun' that challenge can be, pulling rabbits out of a hat, I much prefer the more right-brain activity of getting my head around what a creative team wants to produce as a picture and then find the right place to do it in or at. I wouldn't want to be a producer – too much politics! Money isn't everything.

For the past 5 or 6 years I have been working almost exclusively in production for print ads – less stress. Unfortunately, in that photo-shoots are nowhere near as complicated as film productions, scouting on a photo project doesn't necessarily move on and into actual production-day work as location manager. The 'location manager' ends up being the photo producer – unless the