Glass Houses Magazine

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Scott Ault captured beautiful teen Anna on film on a wet Vancouver day at a very public playground.

“I remember the day that I met Anna. It was a wet & rainy typical Vancouver day and I was a bike courier at the time.

Cycling down Granville Street, something caught my eye. It was a beautiful blonde teen hidden under an umbrella. Suddenly my urbanized Stumpjumper screeched to a halt and I spun it around to catch up to her before she hit the throngs of West Georgia.

I managed to get to her just outside of London Drugs – the very same London Drugs where I had met Lumicia, another model, a year or so before.

I can’t remember exactly what I had said to her but I must have looked like a mess, with ripped and torn cycling clothes and bedraggled bleach blonde hair, with glasses half obscured by a generic baseball cap and my backpack of work. My chest mounted radio was going off constantly, but we talked.

I pulled out a tiny packet of 4×5 prints I carried around. This was, obviously, pre iPad days. She agreed to a shoot and we exchanged digits.

This session was captured on a similar day to our meeting. It was cold but not frozen, wet but not raining.

We met at a cafe that was right downtown and headed off to Coal Harbour.

If you know the area, the playground we “played” on was on the roof of the Coal Harbour Community Centre and yes, there was a parent who looked sidelong at us and made as if she was very unimpressed. But, the photos were phenomenal and super fun.

Anna was a fun, lively, and engaged model to work with even in the rain!”