I Photographed a Birthday Party

I was asked a couple of weeks ago to shoot b-roll footage at a birthday party.  Not sure what b-roll is?  B-roll footage are video clips that aren't main footage, they're clips used to fill in voids in coverage.  For example, if a news crew were interviewing a resident of a neighborhood about a recent flood, during that interview they would cut to clips of people paddling a boat down the street, or stranded on roof tops etc...  In between b-roll clips I was able to shoot some stills.  The birthday girl was Roseann, she was turning 60 and she was surprised.

This is the venue, Papapavlo's, a great Greek restaurant in Stockton, CA.

So inviting.

The menu was short, but very well planned.

When she arrived, she was shocked, then she hugged everyone...literally everyone.

Her cake looked delicious...and it was, but I only had one slice.  Scouts honor.

They played a game to see who knew Roseann the best.  One person knew about half of the answers, and that was good enough to win a Starbuck's basket.

Everyone got up and spoke.  There were so many wonderful things to say about Roseann, I don't know her but she seems like a pretty awesome lady.

They laughed with her.

They toasted her.

And they talked about the good times with her.

She cried.

Happy birthday Roseann, I hope you have many many more.