The 7 Deadly Sins

We've all heard of them, but can you name them? I hadn't given it a thought until niece Jamie called to ask if she could do her photography class project at my house on Saturday. Her assignment was to photograph objects using the 7 sins as the theme. I tried to remember what the original ones were since I've developed a few of my own over a span of years. Instead of pride, anger, envy, sloth, greed, lust and gluttony, mine now seem to center around eating, shopping, wasting time on the computer, not exercising enough, depending on the answering machine, night-owlness, and minor M&M consumption, luckily nothing too deadly, hopefully.

Jamie chose shoes as the object for the project. Her models were two gorgeous young women with great feet, Brittney and Emma. They arrived with no less than 25 pairs of shoes, everything from Converse sneakers to stiletto heels....va va voom! Jamie revved up her camera and started with the sin of Lust. She got a perplexed look on her face when she realized she'd forgotten to pack the sexy underwear to throw on the floor. She looked at me knowing full well I wouldn't be of any real help...I haven't been to Victoria's Secret in ages, but came up with a few things.

The girls dug in their heels, so to speak, and got to work. Jamie directed Brittney to kick off her black stilettos and look lusty.

Then she moved onto 16 year old Emma in Converse sneakers appearing gluttony, after strategically placing popcorn all over her lap, legs and the table.

Then back to Brittney who had climbed into her red stilettos. Her job for this shoot was to stomp one of her 5" lipstick red heels into the face of a mirror (already broken.) Anger at it's finest!

It was fun to watch the girls work together. Unfortunatley, the size of these photos don't do justice to her finished products, but you get the idea. Jamie has a gift of seeing things through a lens that many of us miss. The class is teaching technical aspects of camera use as well as testing her ability to photograph with interest. She has done some really incredible work so far. That's our girl.

Even Annie Leibovitz may have shoe photo envy someday! Get on board with these hot little kicks!

BTW...I now know there is an 8th sin...Iowa's loss to Wisconsin. Bummer in the 1st degree.