Photo Shoot

Didn't know engineers have photo shoots, didja?

Well.. I didn't know either. The week before I went back to Seattle I thought we were going out to see the bridges to take some pictures for the proposal, not to take pictures of us. It was kinda both.

Don't worry, I won't let it go to my head since I was really just the token female engineer, although Chuck said it was cuz we were shooting at one of the bridges I designed.

Its true I am pretty awesome... except when I totally mess up my first steel bridge and am currently changing all the bracing... um, never mind.

Here we are, discussing the bridge. OK not really. Here, I'll provide the real dialog.

Arvid: "These aren't even Jacobs plans, let alone the plans of this bridge."

Melanie: "I feel very silly standing around while Arvid points at these drainage sheets."
Chuck: "Just look like your discussing stuff"

Melanie: "I really should have worn a different outfit."
Chuck: "No, look at the sheets on the barrier by you."

Melanie: "Does this vest make me look fat?"Chuck: "Here, I'll show you. Just point and smile" Melanie: "Oo Oo, I want to point too!"

Arvid: "No"

Melanie: :-( Melanie: "The column is so big! And the dropped cap looks like its coming out of nowhere and has no purpose"

Arvid: "Yes, you designed it. The dropped cap has a very important purpose."

Melanie: "I know it does! I'm just saying... and the bridge looks fatter on one side than the other"

Arvid: "Are those even engineering words?"

Chuck: "Come on you guys, look at the plans!"
Rob (bridge inspector/photographer extraordinaire): "The light just isn't right because of the shadows on the bridge. I've taken a ton of pictures and just look at these ugly black lines. How about we go look at the Blue Diamond flyover while we wait for the light to change?"

Melanie: "Please? Can we go?! Pretty Please?"

Chuck: "I have to go pick up a dining room table for my wife so lets make it quick."

Arvid: "Humph. I'm an even tempored Norweigen so I don't care" Melanie: "Where are the piers under the deck? I can't find them!"

Arvid (from ahead): "They're right in front of you."

Chuck: "Lets hurry"

Rob (too some construction guys): "#$%^"

Melanie: "Construction Dudes have foul mouths. You sound like Angus"

Rob: "What?"

Melanie: "Nothing!"

Whoa.. hello Arvid.


Arvid: "Engineers don't smile unless they are making fun of Melanie"

Chuck: "Take one of me too!"
Melanie: "Rob, how about you just skip me.... oh, I'll get out of your way."
Melanie: "It looks like an erector set!"

Chuck: "Just one more picture of this framing and then we'll go."
Melanie: "Oo Oo, I want to see the girders that ended up too short because of construction. Where are they?"
Arvid: "Your LOOKING at them."

Chuck: "Look at the time! We've got to go back! My wife will kill me if I don't get that dining room table"
Melanie: "I doubt he can see us from up there so I'm gonna make faces at him"

Arvid and Chuck: "Sigh"

Rob: "Now that is perfect lighting! Now the bridge looks beautiful. Apparently all we really needed was a couple of people dressed up like engineers."
Chuck: "We're done. Lets go... Quickly"

Melanie: "Now can I point? GQ baby!"

And that my friend, is an engineering photo shoot. (I wrote this late last night but forgot to post... hence the many inside jokes that only the engineers at work will get if they read this which I hope they never do)