I read Guitar World magazine religiously (what guitar player doesn’t?) and in the last issue, I noted the small sideline feature on their model contest for the upcoming Guitar World Buyer’s Guide.  I never even remember previous buyer’s guides being full of hot ladies, but heck, if they say so I thought it would be fun to submit photos of Donna.

:: Guitar World model contest photo submission - click to enlarge ::

So Donna and I had fun in the 90-degree south Florida sun, shooting some photos of her posing with my old Jackson Kelly Performer PS-6T.  That guitar has a lot of sentimental value to me, as it was a gift from my dad ten years ago.

We thought of some gimmicky poses with the instrument that would be cool for photos to submit, and it turned out to be a lot of fun, for laughs if anything else. As usual, Donna looked great, and although she did well in the hot sun, and my black guitar was radiating a temperature of over 100 degrees when it went back into the case.  That can’t be good.

::  And you haven’t even seen her race BMX yet!  Click to enlarge ::

For those that want to know, I shot these photos with a Nikon D300 and Nikon 70-200 VR 2.8 lens, using a Nikon SB-600 mounted on the camera with a diffuser. Anyway, I guess what matters is we had a good time and took some cool photos.  I hope she wins - it would surely help her modeling career that I’m already positive she will excel at.  I’ll be crossing my fingers for you, Donna - you deserve to win!

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