Michael Sloane wrote:
Kudos to you Dean for posting this story! It's true not every model flakes in time of emergency but while we've all had a story or two like this throughout our careers most of the time the endings aren't happy.

mike

Hi Mike, How are things in the Windy City! All settled in...again? Your images are looking  great!

What a dork I was for thinking that anyone would even read (much less reply to) a post that is positive! Seems that people enjoy the shit talk much more!

EyeOnYouModels wrote:
Just wanted to post something positive about a model, as it seems (to me anyway) that much of what goes on in this forum is photogs bitching about models and models bitching about photogs.

I had a shoot scheduled this past weekend (Nov. 12th and 13th) with a Wisconsin model (over 3 hours away from me) and our shoot was to begin around noon. I got a call from her at about noon and she hadn't left yet. At first I immediately thought "oh boy, here we go..another flake", but I gave her the benefit of the doubt and asked what was going on. Turns out that her Grandmother had a medical emergency (fairly serious but not life-threatening) and she had to get that taken care of and couldn't leave until another family member was able to take over for her.
Long story short, she showed up about 6 hours later (with a great attitude) and was perfectly willing to work as late as need be that night in order to make up for being late!
Originally, we had planned to shoot for a while on the morning of the 13th (as it turns out, we share Nov. 13 as our birthday!) as she had friends here locally where she spent the night and even though we worked quite late she was still more then willing to do that..and even stayed longer then she had planned on.
The model I am referring to is Mai Choua Lor.
https://modelmayhem.com/member.php?id=6663
You can also see more of her at my profile.

Sometimes models are just "good people"! My hat's off to you Mai Choua! Thanks for the extra effort! You could have easily used that situation as a valid reason to just cancell....but you did what you had to do and I appreciate it.

Some will accuse me of ass-kissing here, but truly I just think this forum would be a much happier place if people could only say something positive once in a while.
Maybe others could post a recent "good experience" with a model or a photographer!?

Amen Dean...

I always try to post a comment on the MUA/Stylist/Wardrobe/Photographer's
page so that people will KNOW what great people they are to work with. I
believe it is the proper and professional thing to do.

And you are right...there are excellent photographers/models/MUAs/Stylist
that give 200% and deserve to be given the PUBLIC kudos.

Rick Edwards wrote:
maybe some kind of permanent thread or forum (I mean if, "You don't need a job you've got Audrey" can get a bazillion comments***yawn***)
maybe a place to list good comments should exist, I've got a lot of great models I've worked with and I'd love a place to give 'em props, so others could, at a glance see the good ones
I've only had one flake, and I moved on, no need to hate, it's a waste of energy that I can use somewhere else

I agree Rick! I was actually hoping that someone would suggest making a place for good comments....maybe we can get one of the mods to consider it??

Yeah, I read that "you don't need a job you've got Audrey" thread one time and to be honest I don't get it...nor do i get why so damn many people feel the need to keep that thread alive.