I drive by this gorgeous yellow mustang every day on my way to work.  I've always wanted to shoot it.  Today as I passed by I said, "That's it.  I'm going to find the owner and get permission to shoot this car." So I turned around and went back to where the car is parked, went inside the commercial building, and wandered around asking for the owner of the yellow mustang.

One of the offices turned out to be a clinic of some sort, and when I mentioned that I wanted to photograph the yellow mustang, the ladies working the desk got a smile on and called out to one of the doctors there, who was preoccupied and didn't respond immediately.  They confided to me that she loved the car.

It was the moment I was waiting for, I broke out the MOO card I had selected for the owner of the vehicle, the one featuring a picture of a portion of a classic turquoise Bel-Air, I figured that might appeal to a car lover.  I handed it to one of the ladies at the desk and asked if she would give it to the doctor.  She stared at the picture for a moment and then said to me "what is it?"  "It's my card, the contact information is on the back."

The other receptionist said "do they all look like that?"  And I responded that they were all different, and held out a small stack and fanned them out.  This immediately drew some oohs and aahs (I was sort of surprised by how much they liked them) and I said "you can each have one if you like."  They took the three daisies picture and the Washington Street at night picture.

The younger woman asked "what do you charge?"  I wasn't really prepared for this question, so I just gave an honest answer.  "I'm still learning, so right now I don't charge at all."

At this point they managed to capture the doctor's attention and she came over and I told her how much I wanted to shoot some pix of her mustang.  She seemed pretty tickled, especially when I told her I would be happy to e-mail her the pictures.  She joked with me that I had picked a bad day since the car was dirty, but I told her I could clean up the dirt in post processing.

Turned out I needed to do a LOT of post processing... the car really was somewhat dirty, but it was worth it.  She came outside with me while I took my shots, and even put the convertible top down for one.  Some of the shots didn't come out, but I was able to come up with four that looked good.  I hope she will be happy with them.

All in all, not a bad morning, and it seems like the MOO cards got a lot of attention and interest.  So that's a good thing.  Will anything come of it? One can only hope.  In the meantime, I'm going to continue handing them out whenever it seems appropriate.