Sand Castles & the beach

I was on the beach around 7 AM today to shoot some solo (mom walking on the beach scenes), it was fun, just me with my cup of coffee and the production guys. They were funny and really great to work with. Andrew, Peter, Greg, Ryan, and Dirk (the man in charge). It was hard to find time to take pictures or video so I did what I could in between takes.
Here you see the master sand castle builder Amazin Walter and his apprentice at work. They were making a sand castle for us to use in the shot. The joke was that they would shoot Glenn with a shovel in his hand looking proud, then a cut to the kids and I in awe, then cut to the castle, then us again and then the castle with the 'real builders' working on it. It should come out great. I did not want the kids to ruin all of Walter's work so I had to make sure they knew not to touch it. It was a incredible to watch him work with his tools to create this art out of sand and water.
The girls thought it was neat and Akorren and Glenn were all into it. I hope the shot came out well, it was a fun one to do. Walter was heading out to New York later that day to create some other sand art for an event, I am sorry I did not get his autograph. He did hand me his card. I will see if I can get him to sign a photo for two for us after I print out the shots I have of him with the kids at the beach. This was an awesome way to start out second day of shooting!
The plan was to have us do some pool stuff but the sun was not cooperating, so they said go upstairs and change for the turtle sanctuary shots. So off we went.