Who ordered the wind?

We recently had the opportunity to photograph Cassius. His mom, Michelle, owns and operates Exotica in Motion. An exercise studio next door to us. They specialize in fitness programs with the workout focus on Pole dancing. I will do another blog on that later probably with some images that we have done for some of her advertising pieces...
This however is about Cassius. He is preparing for his first Communion and they wanted to do some images of him that really reflected his personality at this time. We knew we wanted to do the shoot around some big crosses and could only come up with two locations one was the Cross of the Martyrs in Santa Fe the other Tome Hill in Tome.
We decided to take the shorter route and went to Tome.
It was a nice pleasant afternoon until we started hiking up to the top of the hill. Holy wind Batman!
It was a crazy fight to stay upright while shooting and I was, at one point, blown off a rock. I'm not a small dude so that shows you how strong the wind was... Anyway, aside from a little dirt in our eyes and teeth, we did pretty well...