The Butcher
October 23rd – Oh, we’re getting down to the wire. We initially wanted to save this photo for one of the last few days of the month, but we’ve fallen a bit behind. Today we travel to Lock Haven where we hope to take three or four shots, but we are otherwise running low on photos. For the Butcher, I had cut up an old t-shirt and Caroline sewed it into an apron that we promptly covered in red corn syrup. We traveled to a truck factory in Newark in early October and tried it out, but we forgot his cleaver on the living room floor. We knew it would haunt us forever if we didn’t do a reshoot, so we returned with even better ideas to improve on our first try. This time we added a little more red corn syrup, we found a truck with freezer flaps, and most importantly we remembered the cleaver. Caroline laid on the floor of the truck and I tried to get a few photos of Charlie not chewing on the plastic cleaver. Luckily he took a swing at me with it, and thus the above photo was born.