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  For something like 10 years now there has been a worldwide effort to have a simultaneous performance of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Dancing the same steps and choreography as in the music video, at the same exact time all over the world. This year, it was this last Saturday. The woman in the Blonde wig is Janet, the local organizer for the Santa Barbara area. I have known Janet through another organization I support, the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, in Ventura county. Knowing this was going to happen I went there to play defense, assuming I would get something I could play sometime. I just didn’t expect it to be so soon. I did get some great portrait shots of the zombies that showed up, but David played a photo of the New York skyline. All the participating zombies lined up on the steps of the Santa Barbara courthouse for a group portrait. 30 photographers snapped away and then said that’s a wrap. I ran in and zeroed in on Janet, knowing who she was in relation to all the rest, I put my strobe light on to her and got very close. Imagine all these people, or zombies, lined up like the skyscrapers of the New York skyline. Standing tall, grouped close, each with it’s own personality and face in the crowd.