A Barefoot Photo Shoot

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A Barefoot Photo Shoot

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One of the best publicity pictures I have was of my Pipa playing partner and myself. Yumei was very experienced

at directing publicity etc as she was in charge of promoting the Kaohsiung Orchestra and the Conservatory of

Traditional Instruments in Taipei. When we started performing together we needed some Photos so she orchestrated

or Photo Shoot. She said the best pictures are those that are not touched up. The night before we had a water drinking

session. She said if you drink lots of water the wrinkles won’t show and we won't have to touch up the photo. It was

just to be a head shot. We got to the studio the next day and put on our fancy blouses but we didn’t have skirts or

anything to go with the blouses. The photographer covered us up with a black piece of material so only the part we

wanted photographed which was our heads and instruments would show. Upon arriving at the studio I was fine but

Yumei’s face had swollen up from drinking too much water. We had to wait until some of the liquid went out of her

system before we could start being photographed. A couple days later the photographer gave us the pictures and we

couldn’t stop laughing. There we were dressed to the hilt with our bare feet sticking out of the black material. . Everyone

said oh you look so young in that picture. They should only know we drank a couple of gallons of water the night before.

We never thought we also would have a humorous shot of our bare feet. They were cropped out of course!