I discovered my husband cooking pasta at Mary's Pizza shack in Sonoma. I went in for my favorite Marina pasta. Ironically our 16 year old son works for our friends that have one in Redding. There he was. All 6' 1" of him and I knew he would be a perfect model in the San Francisco Market and he was. He become a Mervyns, Macys and Ross's favorite and he modeled in tough markets like New York and Japan. He knew his way around a studio. It was not my intention to date him when I discovered him, infact he was not my type. Dark was my fancy..His was blond..niether one of us are that, but here we are together after 20 years. Ian has been great at everything he does. I work at a restaurant on the peninsula part time and on Wednesdays they do a special sushi night (Gamboni's peninsula grill). Ian was a chef for many years, he is a deputy sheriff now and concrete contractor. I suggested he come and help John roll since we were going to be busy and John was on his own. Ian had never rolled before. I didn’t tell John that part because I knew Ian would have it in minutes and he learned to roll in 10 minutes. You rollers out there know that's not easy. He's been like that with everything. Things come easy for him in his concrete business, raising children, helping with childbirth, (we had 2 home births) and handling animals and all sorts of people with problems, even corners cases, so when I started looking for my second shooter I didn't have to go far. He loves it. The only issue I have is he'll probably get way better than me in no time then I'll end up becoming his personal secretary, setting up a website for him and I'll end up holding the reflector and meter and being lead Sherpa for the equipment. I am so grateful he'll shoot for me on my weddings. I just hope he doesn’t read this blog and is content with being 2nd. His eye is impeccable and he is great with people. I am really lucky to have him as a life partner as well as 2nd shooter!!