When you hang out your shingle as a music photographer, you never know who will walk in your door. An acquaintance asked me to photograph his 16-year-old daughter Courtney and her girlfriend in my small dining-room studio. He didn't offer to pay, but I was intrigued by his description of the girls.

Courtney and Robin spent an hour or so flirting and posturing for my camera in a thoroughly enjoyable session. I liked both for their sense of humor and deadly insightful young/old wisdom. Courtney and her father left town shortly thereafter, before I showed them the slides and proof sheets. It was 12 years before I discovered them in my files and put two and two together.