Arizona:
SO, you'll never believe what happened to me while shooting in Arizona!! For the second episode of Sell This House in AZ, we decided to shoot the open of the show in the desert standing in front of one of the really tall Saguaro cactus! It was a great idea "in thought" I guess. I don't know if you've ever been to Arizona but the landscape is so foreign to me (coming from Ontario Canada) and no matter how many times I've been, hiking through the desert is like visiting Mars! My mom flew in to spend some time with me on this shoot, and she is
such a nature buff, as am I, but I think she is a little more brave than I when it comes to hiking in the middle of nowhere.
Anyway, back to shooting the opening of the show......so my producer Lee Christopherson had her eye on this 100 foot cactus a little ways up the side of the mountain. I have on my jeans, my favorite cowboy boots, a cute blouse and away I go! There were sharp, pointy, dry, things all
over the place!! This kind of terrain seems to go against any kind of human comfort or survival in my mind. We weren't on any kind of trail, we are off roading it on foot in the DESERT!!
So of course the goofball that I am, I decide to pull out my digital camera and take some behind the scenes footage of what's going on here. I have the camera in one hand, walking,
talking and giving some commentary as I go. Well within 10 seconds of my wonderful bird brain idea I walk RIGHT INTO a cactus branch!!! The one that JUMPS right on you if you come close to it!! OMG!!!! I don't know if you've ever had 2 inch thorns wedged into your leg but I SURE DID THAT DAY!!!!!!
Man did that HURT!!!!! The thing I didn't know is that they don't just come out if you pull on them like a regular needle....OHHHH NOOO, they have little tiny tiny like arrow like grooves and once they are in, they are REALLY difficult to get out easily!!! AND they hurt much more
that I thought! At least this type of cactus did!!
I will always remember out shoot in AZ as the one where I was attacked
by a cactus!!!
FYI...Roger was at the hotel sipping on a glass of wine!!
Its a week later and I STILL have a big bruise on my leg!!
Next, we are shooting in Cheyanne Wyoming!!! Now that should be
interesting! I'll keep you posted!
Xo
Tanya
SO, you'll never believe what happened to me while shooting in Arizona!! For the second episode of Sell This House in AZ, we decided to shoot the open of the show in the desert standing in front of one of the really tall Saguaro cactus! It was a great idea "in thought" I guess. I don't know if you've ever been to Arizona but the landscape is so foreign to me (coming from Ontario Canada) and no matter how many times I've been, hiking through the desert is like visiting Mars! My mom flew in to spend some time with me on this shoot, and she is
such a nature buff, as am I, but I think she is a little more brave than I when it comes to hiking in the middle of nowhere.
Anyway, back to shooting the opening of the show......so my producer Lee Christopherson had her eye on this 100 foot cactus a little ways up the side of the mountain. I have on my jeans, my favorite cowboy boots, a cute blouse and away I go! There were sharp, pointy, dry, things all
over the place!! This kind of terrain seems to go against any kind of human comfort or survival in my mind. We weren't on any kind of trail, we are off roading it on foot in the DESERT!!
So of course the goofball that I am, I decide to pull out my digital camera and take some behind the scenes footage of what's going on here. I have the camera in one hand, walking,
talking and giving some commentary as I go. Well within 10 seconds of my wonderful bird brain idea I walk RIGHT INTO a cactus branch!!! The one that JUMPS right on you if you come close to it!! OMG!!!! I don't know if you've ever had 2 inch thorns wedged into your leg but I SURE DID THAT DAY!!!!!!
Man did that HURT!!!!! The thing I didn't know is that they don't just come out if you pull on them like a regular needle....OHHHH NOOO, they have little tiny tiny like arrow like grooves and once they are in, they are REALLY difficult to get out easily!!! AND they hurt much more
that I thought! At least this type of cactus did!!
I will always remember out shoot in AZ as the one where I was attacked
by a cactus!!!
FYI...Roger was at the hotel sipping on a glass of wine!!
Its a week later and I STILL have a big bruise on my leg!!
Next, we are shooting in Cheyanne Wyoming!!! Now that should be
interesting! I'll keep you posted!
Xo
Tanya
posted by Tanya at 1:34 PM
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